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Yale Celebrates Anthropologist Franz Boas, Who Refuted Racism

August 23, 2011

The pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942), who refuted the basic principles of racist ideology in a book once described as the "Magna Carta...

Yale Partners with the National Library of Korea to Digitize Rare Books and Manuscripts

August 19, 2011

Yale University’s East Asia and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript libraries have undertaken a collaborative project with The National Library of Korea to...

Yale's Walpole Library Invites Public to Contribute to Oral History Project

August 8, 2011

Farmington, Conn. – The Lewis Walpole Library has announced that it will seek to record recollections by contemporaries of the Library’s founders, Wilmarth...

Cambodian Garment Factories Use Temporary Employment Contracts to Exploit Workers

August 8, 2011

Yale Law School’s Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic has released a report on the widespread use of short-term employment contracts in...

At Yale's Morse Summer Music Academy, It's Extreme Music Every Day

August 2, 2011

Anyone who has ever wondered what it takes for a child to learn a musical instrument is invited to visit the Yale School of Music Morse Summer Academy this...

School of Music student nominated for Emmy Award

July 25, 2011

Yale School of Music student Garth Neustadter has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his score for the PBS documentary "John Muir in the New...

Concert series to highlight International Cabaret Conference

July 21, 2011

The days will be devoted to learning and the nights to crooning when the International Cabaret Conference holds its 2011 session at Yale July 22-31.

Tigerman Exhibition and Lecture Kick Off Fall Series of Free Architecture Events

July 8, 2011

The following is a schedule of free and public events at the Yale School of Architecture this fall. All events take place in Hastings Hall, the auditorium of...

Earliest Image of Egyptian Ruler Wearing "White Crown" of Royalty Brought to Light

July 7, 2011

The earliest known image of an Egyptian ruler wearing the “White Crown” associated with Egyptian dynastic power has been brought to light by an international...

Yale Establishes Literature Prizes to Implement Extraordinary Legacy of Novelist and Memoirist Donald Windham

June 21, 2011

Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced the establishment of The Donald Windham - Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes. The prizes, which...