A painting by Bernard Chaet, the William Leffingwell Professor Emeritus of Painting at the Yale School of Art, has received the Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Prize from the National Academy of Art. The painting, titled “A.M.,” is featured in the Academy’s...
Beginning July 7, Yale’s Programs in International Educational Resources (PIER) of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) will offer four concurrent courses – Summer Institutes – examining the background of particular world issues...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Chairman of Harvard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies, will donate the manuscript of “The Bondwoman’s Narrative,” by Hannah Crafts, to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at a ceremony on May 30. The...
Four faculty members named as outstanding teachers were honored at the Yale College Senior Class Day program on Sunday, May 25, and a Yale historian and former master who died this spring was given a posthumous award for his dedication to students. The...
The Yale University Library will participate in a pilot project with the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Rice University and the University of Southern California. Supported by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the...
The following information was inadvertently omitted from the full release distributed on May 9, 2003. Please incorporate the addendum into your story. Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish and...
Four Yale University professors were recently elected Fellows to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences class of 2003. The newly-elected Fellows are Michel H. Devoret, professor of physics and applied physics; Donald P. Green, A. Whitney Griswold...
Yale University Provost Susan Hockfield recently announced the appointments of two deputy provosts to help shape and implement the academic, administrative and budgetary policies of the University. Hockfield named Barbara Shailor, currently the director...
Graham Swift, one of Britain’s leading writers, will read from his own work at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., May 7 at 4 p.m. Swift is the author of seven books, including “Shuttlecock,” “Waterland,” “Ever After” –...
A memorial service will be held this Sunday, May 4, in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., honoring Eugene V. Rostow, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Public Policy and former dean of Yale Law School. Rostow, an...