A rich selection of 25 illuminated manuscripts from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale will be on display at the Beinecke from March 28 through April 11. The manuscripts range chronologically from ordinances from...
With a focus on the Middle East, a symposium at the Yale School of Architecture on April 4-5 will examine the competing forces of globalization and local culture in modern architectural practice. Architects, critics and scholars from around the world...
Yale University will host a free, public conference on “Genocide and Terrorism: Probing the Mind of the Perpetrator” on April 11 in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., 9 a.m.-6:15 p.m. Keynote speaker will be Matthias Kuntzel, a political...
Reporters and Editors seeking experts on the war in Iraq and related issues may contact Yale faculty through the Office of Public Affairs. Below is a list of some of the many members of the faculty with relevant expertise. Bruce Ackerman, professor of...
As of next fall, only “Fair Trade”-certified coffee will be served in the dining halls of Yale University. Switching from conventionally traded coffee was the unanimous decision of members of the student advocacy group, the Yale Sustainable Food...
Klaas Zwanepol, professor of Lutheran theology at the University of Utrecht, will deliver a lecture on “Luther’s Christology” on March 25 at 7 p.m., in the Latourette Lecture Hall at Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. Zwanepol has written...
A symposium about the portrayal of women and their response to war in Greek tragedy, sponsored by the Women Faculty Forum (WFF) at Yale, will take place on April 21 in Room 309 of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. “Terrorism and Tragedy: Women at...
Yale University reported that about 50% of its clerical and technical employees did not participate in a strike called today by their union, Local 34 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees. “Nearly half of our clerical and technical workers...
Georges May, a leading scholar of French literature who held two top administrative posts at Yale University, has died at his home in New Haven at the age of 82. The Sterling Professor emeritus of French at Yale, May was a native of France and...
Actor Christopher Reeve, who was paralyzed in an equestrian competition in 1995, will be the keynote speaker April 3 at the Yale University Stem Cell Interest Group meeting in the Yale School of Medicine’s new biomedical and research building at 300...