Affirmative action is under attack. In recent decisions, the judicial system has rejected its claims and politicians are asking, why? for whom? and how long? The recent ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Hopwood v. Texas...
The Yale University Russian Chorus will soon release its first CD for international distribution. “Chants and Carols,” on Epiphany Recordings, will be available at HMV, Tower Records, Borders, Barnes and Noble, and other major outlets later this...
Christine E. Hayes, a scholar of Talmudic studies and Judaism in late antiquity, has joined the faculty as the Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica, President Richard C. Levin has announced. Ms...
She was raised in Connecticut and now lives in California, but her vivid descriptions of the Brazilian jungle are what won Talvikki Ansel the 1996 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Ms. Ansel’s manuscript, “Teatro Amazonas,” is named for an...
Yale University’s History of Art and African and African-American Studies departments have named graduate student David Doris the first winner of the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize. Sylvia Boone, a noted scholar of African art, was the first tenured...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York, N.Y., has announced the renewal of a grant to Yale University which will provide approximately $670,000 in 1996-97 for the continuation of a program to improve the quality and effectiveness of Yale graduate...
Yale University alumnus Norman H. Tolman –’64 M.A.– has established a scholarship that will enable a Yale student to study at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies –IUC– in Yokohama. The gift honors Roy Andrew Miller, one of Mr....
Twenty-two leading educators from Eastern Europe will gather at Yale University for a ground-breaking conference, the first ever to address how to teach the humanities in a post-Communist world. The conference, “Curricular Development in the...
Gilbert M. Joseph, professor of history and chairman of the Council on Latin American Studies at Yale University, has been appointed as a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for the 1996-97 academic year....
Professor Charles K. Kao, Vice Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a distinguished pioneer in optical fiber communications, has made a gift to Yale University to promote scholarly exchanges with Asia. The gift,...