A bequest to Yale University from Germain Seligman has provided ten Yale undergraduates with scholarships totaling $120,000 during the 1997-98 academic year. This is the third consecutive year that Yale undergraduates have benefited from the Germain...
Thirty Yale students will perform community service in New Haven this summer with financial support from the University, under a program established by President Richard C. Levin. By providing the students with summer stipends, Yale frees them from...
The U.S. State Department has approved a $1 million grant to help finance the Cambodian Genocide Program’s work at Yale and in Cambodia for the next five years. A previous grant for $500,000 lapses this year. The Cambodian Genocide Program – CGP,...
Marvin H. Pope, 81, Yale University professor emeritus and a noted Bible scholar, died June 15 at the First Church of Round Hill in Greenwich, CT. He and his wife, Ingrid, had just completed reading passages from the Bible to the congregation, when he...
The 1997 Aston Magna Academy opens on Sunday, June 15, at Yale University, and will continue through July 6. The Academy, part of the Aston Magna Foundation, combines a summer music festival, scholarly conference, and research institute. It brings...
Several handwritten scores by Franz Schubert – 1797-1828 – are on display at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday. On view through June 19, the exhibit includes Schubert’s sketches...
A bequest from Lancelot P. Ross, a renowned singer and composer who graduated from Yale College in 1928, has established funding for an undergraduate scholarship and general support for musical activities at Yale University. Under the terms of the...
Lamin Sanneh, the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale University, will deliver a public lecture titled “America’s Example in the Establishment of Christianity in Africa: Antislavery and Antistructure,” on Friday, June 6...
James L. Tobin, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Yale University’s Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics, will receive the Distinguished Public Service Award from the Connecticut Bar Association – CBA – on June 16. Professor Tobin served on the Yale...
The Yale Center for International and Area Studies – YCIAS – will host a high-spirited celebration tonight honoring 169 New Haven-area students who participated in the High School Cooperative Language Program – HSCLP – at Yale this year. The event...