Jay Wright is the 2005 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, becoming the first African–American to receive the prestigious award. Citing Wright’s lifetime achievement in poetry, the three–judge panel who chose him wrote, “...
A British architect has been selected to design a new environmentally sustainable home for the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. “The new ‘green’ building will set a new standard for sustainable design, construction and operations at...
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University will host the first talks of the newly established David Brion Davis Lecture Series on the Yale campus, February 7–9. The inaugural lecturer of the series is...
Renowned scientist Stephen Wolfram will deliver a lecture titled “A New Kind of Science” at the Yale School of Architecture on February 14, 6:30 p.m. A ground–breaking and original scientist, Wolfram is recognized as one of the world’s most important...
Yale’s annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference—the nation’s largest student–run public interest law conference—will take place February 18–20 at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. Rebellious Lawyering brings together practitioners, law students and...
The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School has selected five Liman Fellows for 2005–06. The Liman Program supports fellowships for Yale Law School graduates to work full time for a year in any area of the legal profession devoted to the...
Prominent musicians from the New Haven and Yale communities will join together for a concert to support the people of the earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged areas of Southeast Asia and the Pacific on Friday, January 14, at 8 p.m., in Woolsey Hall, corner of...
On January 10, prominent real estate developer Gerald Hines, the first recipient of the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship at Yale School of Architecture (YSA) will deliver the first lecture of the spring term: “From Local to...
Yale University will train prospective teachers for free in return for an agreement to teach for three years in New Haven public schools, Yale and the city announced today. University President Richard C. Levin and New Haven Superintendent of Schools Dr...
Dick R. Wittink, the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing at the Yale School of Management, died on June 4 at age 59. Wittink was a respected mentor and scholar with over 100 articles in the field of marketing. He was noted for his...