Yale University will celebrate the memory of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) with a week of special events, January 15–23, dedicated to the theme “Because of His Dream: ‘Yes, We Can.’” The events are free and open to the public. To launch...
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150 year anniversary of publication of his Origin of the Species, Yale has created a webportal, Yale Celebrates Darwin. The portal provides links to information about all the...
Governor Deval Patrick will deliver the keynote address at the Annual Black History Month Dinner at a Yale residential college on February 13, 5:30 p.m. Hosted by Pierson College and the Afro-American Cultural Center, the address and dinner are free and...
Yale University Library has received a $5 million dollar gift from Arcadia, a United Kingdom-based grant-making fund established in 2001, to make the library’s important collections of international materials more available through cataloguing and...
President Richard C. Levin and faculty colleagues will participate in a panel discussion Tuesday, Feb. 17, on the global financial crisis.Organized by the Yale College Council and the Yale Student Investment Group, the free public panel, “Understanding...
A three-judge panel has named Allen Grossman the 2009 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.The Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, established by Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by the Yale University Library to an...
Shashi Tharoor, chairman of Dubai-based international investments company Afras Ventures and former under-secretary-general of the United Nations, will be the speaker at the 16th Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on March 4.His talk is titled “India...
Yale Divinity School is expanding its international student exchange program, establishing ties to two theological schools in Asia to complement ongoing programs in Germany and England.In an open letter to students, Yale Divinity School Dean Harold...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson will present the 2009 Dwight H. Terry Lectures at Yale University, beginning March 24.The talks, free and open to the public, will be held on March 24, 26, 31 and April 2 at 4:30 p.m. in 102 Linsly-...
Best-selling author Gay Talese will give a public reading from his work at Yale on April 1 as a John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer.His talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 7 p.m. in St. Anthony Hall, 483 College Street. The...