Two Yale alumni are among 10 Americans who were awarded the first National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at a Sept. 29 ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. Businessman Richard J. Franke, a...
Yale’s Dean of Undergraduate Studies Joseph W. Gordon was elected vice president of the nation’s most venerable academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, during its 38th triennial Council, which convened in Chicago last week. The election places Dr....
On Tuesday, Oct. 14, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale will present honorary degrees to Connecticut’s former Lieutenant Governor Eunice Strong Groark, the Reverend H. Boone Porter, the Reverend Barbara Brown Taylor, and the Right Reverend Herbert...
Sister Helen Prejean, whose work with death-row inmates was the subject of the Tim Robbins film “Dead Man Walking,” and other distinguished lecturers will be featured at the 1997 Annual Convocation of the Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity...
Yale University’s Department of Sociology will host a two-day conference on “Sociology and Public Life,” Thursday, Oct. 9, and Friday, Oct. 10. All sessions will be held in Room 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street. Keynote speaker on...
Anthony T. Kronman, dean of the Yale Law School, announced the establishment of the Robert L. Bernstein Fellowships in International Human Rights at a weekend gathering of Yale Law School alumni. The Fellowships will be awarded annually to two or...
Robert Pinsky, poet laureate of the United States; Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet; and John Hollander, poet and the Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, will join together for a public symposium, “Poetic Responsibilities,” Monday, Oct. 6, at...
The office of Deborah Berke Architect has been selected to design a building for Yale University’s School of Art, to be located at 1156 Chapel St. The site, formerly occupied by the Jewish Community Center, was purchased by the University in December...
Heinrich von Staden, a long-time member of the Yale University faculty whose specialties include classical philosophy and literature, mythology, and ancient medicine and science, has been named the William Lampson Professor of Classics and Comparative...
The Yale Center for International and Area Studies’ Council on African Studies will host a lecture series on “What Happened to African Socialism?” All sessions are free and open to the public. The lectures will be held in Room 203 of Luce Hall, 34...