The Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale is hosting an exhibition by artist Deborah Rosenthal. “Eve’s Vocabulary,” an exhibit of 15 canvases, develops the theme of Eve as the embodiment of nature’s fecundity and the eternal feminine spirit, according...
Two Yale professors, Jon Butler and Harry Stout, are assembling the first series of textbooks on the history of religion in America designed expressly for secondary schools. The reference books are intended for high school teachers, to enhance their...
The Yale School of Architecture has appointed four internationally distinguished visiting professors of architectural design for the fall 1999 semester, Dean Robert A.M. Stern has announced. Daniel Libeskind, Demetri Porphyrios, Cesar Pelli, and Frank...
Yale University’s School of Architecture will hold an open house at 212 Winthrop Ave., on Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:30 p.m., to give the public an opportunity to explore a house designed and built by its students. Members of the media are welcome to cover...
If you think all there is to sign language is spelling out letters digitally, check out the first signed translation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” now in progress at Trumbull College at Yale. A troupe of professional translators/performers, who are...
The law schools of Yale and Stanford universities have announced the establishment of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, an innovative joint venture designed to encourage the work of young scholars by providing them with opportunities to pursue...
The Women’s Campaign School at Yale will present a one-day workshop, “Public Speaking and Media Skills,” on Saturday, August 28, in William Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The program will target candidates and campaign staff members who will be involved...
Yale University Divinity School Dean Richard J. Wood has announced the appointment of new leadership for the Program on Non-Profit Organizations (PONPO), a research center that studies philanthropy, voluntarism, and nonprofit organizations. Gene Outka,...
Three students from the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies have been chosen 1999-2000 recipients of research grants under the Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research program. Nationwide, 18 students were honored with...
In his provocative new book, “Why Americans Hate Welfare,” Yale professor Martin Gilens shows that both print publications and television news broadcasters routinely misrepresent poor Americans of all races. But poor blacks, he shows, are portrayed more...