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...
Wangari Maathai of Kenya, an internationally recognized environmental leader and human rights advocate, has joined the faculty of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies this spring as the Dorothy McCluskey Visiting Fellow for...
On Friday, February 15, the Yale Concert Band salutes Yale alumnus (Class of 1913) and premier American song-writer Cole Porter in a performance of some of his favorite hits. Among America’s most popular song-writers and arguably its most clever, Porter...
Philadelphia klezmer legends, mother-daughter team Elaine Hoffman-Watts and Susan Sandler, will join Generation Klez in a special concert on February 12, at 8 p.m. in the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall Street. The concert is free and...
A celebration of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Yale Hon. LLD. ‘64) will take place on the Yale campus beginning on Martin Luther King’s birthday, January 15, and continuing through a two-day festival on January 20-21. The first in the...
Carolyn Mazure, professor of psychiatry and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale, is the new associate dean for faculty affairs at Yale School of Medicine. “Dr. Mazure’s training and experience, as well as her in-depth understanding of both the...
Susan E. Lederer, assistant professor of the history of medicine at Yale, will present a lecture on Thursday, January 17, on the ways in which public health policies concerning blood transfusions have reflected prevalent attitudes about race and...
Members of the news media are invited to a guided tour of the Langston Hughes (1902-1967) exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Thursday, January 31, at 2 p.m. Titled “My Soul Has Grown Deep like the Rivers: Langston Hughes...