Yale University will host “Italian Cinema for the New Millennium,” an event that includes a film festival, faculty symposium and graduate conference, April 19–22. All films, talks and panels are free and open to the public. Films will be screened in...
Charlie Rose, Emmy award-winning journalist and executive editor and anchor of the nightly PBS interview show Charlie Rose, will deliver the Gary G. Fryer Memorial Lecture at Yale on Wednesday, April 18. Rose will discuss “The Interview at the Heart of...
Lawyers, museum curators and collectors, journal editors and scholars will gather on the Yale campus on Saturday, April 14, 9:30 a.m.–6 p.m., for an international symposium exploring issues surrounding cultural property, antiquities and archaeological...
On April 19–20, Yale Professor of Music Willie Ruff will host the second international conference on “line-singing,” a centuries-old a cappella church service still sung by far-flung congregations from the Scottish Hebrides to the Indian Territory of...
Professor Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, will deliver the 2007 Gandhi lecture, titled “Gandhi in Our Times,” on April 19 at 4:30 p.m., at the Whitney Humanities Center, 55 Wall Street, Room 208. Gandhi’s lecture will focus on the...
New Haven, Conn. — Award-winning writers Elizabeth Alexander, John Guare and Claire Messud will read from their works at Yale on April 16, 5 p.m., at St. Anthony Hall, 483 College St.The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of a series of...
Pietro DeCamilli New Haven, Conn. — A gene found exclusively and at high levels in the brain appears to be a key player in enabling more sophisticated brain function, Yale School of Medicine researchers...
Yale School of Medicine and University of Crete School of Medicine researchers report in Cell April 20 the first evidence of a molecular mechanism that dynamically alters the strength of higher brain network connections.This discovery may help the...
New Haven, Conn.—Where there is cigarette smoking there is probably misuse of alcohol too, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the Archives of Internal Medicine. “This means cigarette smoking status can be used as a clinical...
New Haven, Conn.—Cleve Killingsworth, president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and an advocate of health insurance reform, will receive the John D. Thompson Distinguished Visiting Fellow 2007 award from Yale School of Medicine’s...