Japanese alumni of the Yale School of Architecture, Eyebeam Atelier’s international competition for a new museum, the Arverne project of the Architectural League of New York and the current work of international designer Zaha Hadid will be the subjects...
Scholars from a variety of disciplines will gather for a symposium at Yale on Friday-Sunday, February 1-3, to explore ways in which Dutch optical inventions of the 17th century have shaped modern visual perception. Titled “Visual Culture in Early Modern...
The work, life and spirit of poet and cultural icon Langston Hughes (1902-1967) are the subject of a major public exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University opening February 1, the 100th anniversary of Hughes’ birth....
Michael Holquist, professor of Slavic languages and literatures and chairman of the department of comparative literature at Yale, has been awarded an honorary doctoral degree by Stockholm University in Sweden. Holquist is closely associated with the...
Recently completed reproductions of the ancient Maya murals of Bonampak will be exhibited to the public at Yale’s Saybrook College, 242 Elm Street, on Friday, January 11, 1-5 p.m. Discovered by archaeologists in 1946, the 1,200-year-old wall paintings...
The Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agrobiotechnology has received a gift from Monsanto Company that will support postdoctoral and graduate research at Yale University in the United States and Peking University in China. The...
Yale has received a four-year, $2.1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support science education programs that enhance opportunities for undergraduates who study science at Yale and to fund science outreach programs for New...
Pierre C. Hohenberg, deputy provost for science and technology and adjunct professor of physics and applied physics has received the prestigious 2003 Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society. Hohenberg received the honor for research...
Carol Browner, former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will discuss “The Women in Charge: Women in Environmental and Natural Resource Leadership” on October 16, at noon in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, at the Yale School of...
A four-year, $1.2 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles will establish the grant-funded W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Quantum Information Physics at Yale. Exploring the science and technology necessary to build a quantum computer...