Even as Mother Nature is exchanging her shimmering summer finery for the golds, reds, and tans of her autumn wardrobe, Yale’s Norfolk Music Festival is preparing to launch its fourth annual “Indian Summer” series. An extension of Norfolk’s award-...
Images of the wooden houses, farms, chapels, mosques and monastic buildings that dotted the pre-war landscape of the former Yugoslavia will be on view through Oct. 11 in the front gallery of the Art & Architecture Building on York Street. “...
Distinguished religious leaders from across the country and abroad will converge on Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale for the Annual Convocation, October 7-9. “An important aspect of Yale Divinity School’s mission is to...
Affirmative action is under attack. In recent decisions, the judicial system has rejected its claims and politicians are asking, why? for whom? and how long? The recent ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Hopwood v. Texas...
The Yale University Russian Chorus will soon release its first CD for international distribution. “Chants and Carols,” on Epiphany Recordings, will be available at HMV, Tower Records, Borders, Barnes and Noble, and other major outlets later this...
Christine E. Hayes, a scholar of Talmudic studies and Judaism in late antiquity, has joined the faculty as the Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica, President Richard C. Levin has announced. Ms...
She was raised in Connecticut and now lives in California, but her vivid descriptions of the Brazilian jungle are what won Talvikki Ansel the 1996 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Ms. Ansel’s manuscript, “Teatro Amazonas,” is named for an...
Yale University’s History of Art and African and African-American Studies departments have named graduate student David Doris the first winner of the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize. Sylvia Boone, a noted scholar of African art, was the first tenured...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York, N.Y., has announced the renewal of a grant to Yale University which will provide approximately $670,000 in 1996-97 for the continuation of a program to improve the quality and effectiveness of Yale graduate...
Yale University alumnus Norman H. Tolman –’64 M.A.– has established a scholarship that will enable a Yale student to study at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies –IUC– in Yokohama. The gift honors Roy Andrew Miller, one of Mr....