The 1,312 members of the Yale College Class of 2008 will arrive on campus August 28 for orientation activities. This year’s class was chosen from the largest number of applicants Yale has ever had: 19,682 in all. That number represents an increase of...
Yale College news reporters will hold a week-long Summer Journalism Program for 30 local high school students who want to experience the life of a journalist and hone their news skills, August 22-28. The program aims to teach “the tricks of the trade”...
Yale University will host a conference to mark the 800th anniversary of the death of the renowned medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar and community leader Moses ben Maimon (1138-1204), also known as Maimonides and the Rambam, on September 12....
An exhibition showcasing a range of contemporary artists of Cuban ancestry will be at the Yale School of Art, Holcombe T. Green Jr. Gallery, 1156 Chapel Street, August 11-22. An opening reception will take place August 13, 5-7 p.m. Titled “Intersections...
The United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Board has given an award of $1,024,272 (UK £553,661) toward the publication of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (CWJS), whose general editor is Yale professor Claude Rawson. “This...
The opening exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture this coming academic year will showcase the landmark Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Building (PSFS), an icon of International Style Modernism. An original show organized and designed by Dean...
Members of the press are invited to attend a reception on Saturday, June 26, 4-6 p.m. for the New Haven Oral History Project (NHOHP) exhibition at the New Haven Colony Historical Society, 114 Whitney Avenue. The exhibition highlights NHOHP interviews...
Designing a family-friendly home opposite a county prison and yards from a corner muffler shop was only part of the challenge facing students at Yale School of Architecture this year in their annual First Year Building Project. Added to the difficulties...
A documentary produced by Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and edited by Yale archivist Joanne Rudof had a premiere screening in Czestochowa, Poland, as part of a ground-breaking exhibition. In the film, seven...
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale has acquired the papers of the Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1987 and the 1991-92 Poet Laureate of the United States. The archive includes...