Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Andrew Young, who came to national prominence as a leader in the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s, will deliver the 2011 Parks-King Lecture at Yale Divinity School on Thursday, Feb. 3, 5:30 pm, in Niebuhr Hall, 409...
Tony Award-winning actor Liev Schreiber will deliver the 20th annual Maynard Mack Lecture, marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of New Haven’s Elizabethan Club, on Monday, January 31. The lecture will be presented as a conversation between the...
The following story originally appeared in Qn, a publication of the Yale School of Management:Decisions made by those at the top of major companies, nonprofits, and government organizations can affect millions of lives. President Richard C. Levin joined...
Dear Yale Staff,Snow removal and travel are extremely difficult due to the amount of overnight snowfall. We are encouraging staff in areas where attendance at work can be delayed to report to work this morning at 10:30 instead of the usual time. Staff...
By now, many people know at least something about how climate change is affecting the world’s ecosystems. But what about the link between climate change and human health? Or economic opportunity? Or religion?These connections were the basis for a panel...
The following story is from the Yale College website:It’s a mid-December evening, just before winter recess, and Stephen Feigenbaum ‘12 of Branford College is looking for a place to stay in New Haven. He texts a few friends, explaining, “My room has...
Joanna Waley-Cohen of New York University will deliver the first Franke Lecture at Yale on January 31 in a series focusing on the history of food and cuisine. Free and open to the public, all Franke lectures take place in Room 203 of the Whitney...
Distinguished cultural historian Gary Tomlinson will deliver the opening 2011 Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities on February 3, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. His talk, “Paleolithic Formalism and the Emergence of Music,” will...
Yale graduate student James Franco will be in the spotlight on the night of the Academy Awards as both co-host of the ceremony (with Anne Hathaway) and a “Best Actor” nominee (for “127 Hours”). But also vying for its share of the glitter will be a short...
“The Piano Lesson,” August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about two siblings’ struggle to embrace or deny their family “inheritance,” returns this month to the Yale Repertory Theatre — where it had its world premiere in 1987.The production, which...