Mary Ellen Miller, an expert on the art of Mesoamerica, has been named the first Vincent J. Scully Professor of the History of Art by vote of the Yale Corporation. The new chair was established in January in honor of Vincent J. Scully Jr., the longtime...
U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley will visit the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven, 444 Orange St., on Thursday, March 19. His visit celebrates the partnerships between New Haven Public Schools and Yale University,...
Yale University’s Center for International and Area Studies will inaugurate a pioneering program with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., to promote scholarly and public policy research on Mexico. Sharing a $300,000 grant from the Hewlett...
Harvard University Professor Elaine Scarry will deliver the 1998 Tanner Lectures on March 25 and 26 at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The talks will focus on “Beauty and its Relation to Justice.” The first...
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, with the assistance of the Woodward Lectures Fund, will host a symposium, “Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture,” on Friday and Saturday, April 3-4. All conference panels will be held...
Prominent politicians, judges and scholars will gather at Yale Law School to debate the future of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories, Friday and Saturday, March 27-28. Titled “Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Reflections on the Centenary of the United...
A $1 million endowment to boost geography education in Connecticut local schools will be launched by the National Geographic Society, the Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority and Yale University next week. National Geographic Society -NGS- Chairman...
Looking for a story about Ireland in time for St. Patrick’s Day? According to research by a Yale University economist, the population of Ireland fell precipitously in the years before the first World War – and never rebounded. This sharp decline in...
The scaffolding that covered the front of Marquand Chapel has been removed – after three long years – revealing a steeple restored to its original splendor. Yale Divinity School will celebrate the successful completion of the steeple project on Friday...
A modern-day reenactment of the mythical Greek inventor Daedalus’ flight across the sea will be the topic of the first lecture in the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI) Lecture Program. “Daedalus Revisited: Designing, Building and Flying a Human-...