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In memoriam: Robert Dahl, influential political scientist

February 7, 2014

Yale professor Robert A. Dahl, an esteemed and influential political scientist who in such books as "Who Governs?" championed democracy in theory...

Take 5: Anthropologist Kathryn Dudley

February 6, 2014

Take 5 offers a brief introduction to Yale faculty members in a Q&A format. This latest installment features Kathryn M. Dudley, a professor of...

Beinecke Library acquires rare English translations of Bible

February 6, 2014

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library has acquired two “Tyndale Bibles” — the first printed English translations of biblical texts — which are...

Yale Opera presents 'La Bohème'

February 4, 2014

The Yale School of Music and Yale Opera present a new production of Puccini’s popular "La Bohème" Feb. 14-16. Set in nineteenth-century Paris, the...

Tanner Lectures will explore the ‘Black Atlantic’ and humanism

February 4, 2014

Paul Gilroy, professor of American and English literature at King’s College London will deliver the 2014 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the Whitney...

Ask questions and ‘explore like a bird,’ advises Justice Sotomayor

February 4, 2014

There is no shame in ignorance, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a packed crowd in Woolsey Hall during a campus visit to Yale on Feb...

Photojournalist Richard Mosse to speak on campus

February 3, 2014

Richard Mosse, a photographer and Yale graduate (M.F.A. ’08), whose work has been featured in exhibitions all over the world, will come to Yale on Wednesday,...

Yale launches institute to expand interdisciplinary study of networks

January 31, 2014

Yale will celebrate the opening of its new Institute for Network Science on Wednesday, Feb. 5 from 4 to 6 p.m. at 17 Hillhouse Ave. The institute’s research...

Artis Quartet plays music by Mozart, Zemlinsky, and Brahms

January 31, 2014

The Yale School of Music presents the acclaimed Artis Quartet performing music by Mozart, Zemlinsky, and Brahms in a concert on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. in...

Yale Concert Band's winter concert to feature music of Bernstein, Rossini

January 31, 2014

Gioacchino Rosetti's "William Tell Overture" and Leonard Bernstein's "Three Dance Episodes" from "On the Town" are...