The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute has announced the launch of a national initiative to strengthen classroom teaching in U.S. public schools. Underwritten by a $2.5 million grant from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, the effort seeks to...
Yale Law School will host five working journalists during the 1998-99 academic year. The Fellowships in Law for Journalists bring mid-career reporters to the University for a year to improve their understanding of legal and policy issues. Those who...
Yale University Press has announced a winner in the 1998 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. The judge, distinguished poet W.S. Merwin, chose Craig Arnold’s manuscript, “Shells,” which Yale University Press will publish in the spring of 1999...
Rwanda. Congo. Somalia. Violent regional and ethnic tensions have erupted in Africa in recent years, leaving thousands dead, wounded and driven from their homes. The first step in preventing a repetition of these tragedies is to understand them...
Social studies teachers from around the country and across town have converged on Yale to study Africa, China, Russia and other nations in the news. The goal is to give educators the latest and most complete information about what they cover in their...
The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival will take a breather from classical music to celebrate George Gershwin’s 100th birthday on Friday, July 17, and Saturday, July 18, at the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate in Connecticut’s Litchfield Hills. The Norfolk...
United States Representative Rosa L. DeLauro: I was pleased to learn that the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute has been awarded a grant from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund to establish programs to improve public school curriculum around the...
Eight Yale students are working this summer to improve life in New Haven and advance the cause of social justice, thanks to the Dwight Hall Summer Internship Program. The program, now in its 30th year, provides funding so that students can work full...
A bequest to Yale University from Germain Seligman provided 10 Yale undergraduates with scholarships totaling $155,789 during the recently completed 1997P98 academic year. This is the fourth consecutive year that Yale undergraduates benefitted from the...
The 1997-98 academic year has officially ended, but 35 Yale students have chosen to remain in New Haven throughout the summer to serve their host city as President’s Public Service Fellows. They will work in community gardens and city parks, develop...