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,...
Yale Law School has awarded four Knight Fellowships in Law for Journalists for 1996-97. The fellowships will be given to Carole Bass, Julie Cohen, Charles M. Lane, and Judy Peres. Carole Bass is managing editor of the New Haven...
Peter Gay, Yale University’s Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, was awarded the Gold Medal for History from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Gay joined the faculty of Yale in 1970, where he taught for over 20...
Local high school students will sing, dance, and perform in Russian, Gaelic, German, Portuguese, Swahili, and ancient Greek at a colorful celebration tonight, May 23, 7-9:30 p.m., in Yale University’s Luce Hall Auditorium at...
Tradition at Yale runs deep. It should come as no surprise, under the circumstances, that one of the first projects in the current renovation of the University’s main library was upgrading the Memorabilia Room. Closed for...
Yale University’s Center for International and Area Studies has named 42 educators and scholars as PIER Programs in International Educational Resources Fellows for 1996. The newly- named fellows were honored at a ceremony on Wednesday...
Yale University will host a two-day conference, May 16 and 17, to examine Ukraine’s economy during the past five years of independence. Sponsored by the Council on Russian and East European Studies and the Program in International...
Historian Ivan Marcus, Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History at Yale University, has made some surprising discoveries about Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages. Conventional wisdom has it that the Jewish minority in...