Yale faculty member J.D. McClatchy has received the 2010 Ambassador Book Award for Poetry from the English-Speaking Union of the United States for his book of poems “Mercury Dressing” (2009).The Ambassador Book Awards recognize important literary works...
Jeffrey Prescott, Deputy Director of The China Law Center and Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, has been named a White House Fellow, one of the country’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service.Prescott is...
Yale University’s Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, 180 York Street, will host the exhibition “Material Meets Metaphor: A Half Century of Book Art by Richard Minsky” from August 2 through November 29.The exhibition covers 50 years of Minsky’s work —...
The Organization of American States (OAS) has extended its scholarship and financial aid benefits, geared towards students from Latin America and the Caribbean who are interested in pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees, to include those attending Yale’s...
Yale University Library has received a grant of $250,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support “The New England Indian Papers Series: The Connecticut Colony Collection, 1603–1783,” an online compendium of important and rare...
Professor Carlos Eire, who teaches in the Religious Studies Department of Yale University, will be featured in a documentary about Operation Pedro Pan, a secret U.S. airlift of Cuban children to the United States following the Castro Revolution.Titled “...
There will be a memorial service honoring Martin Price, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 27, in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.A reception will follow.Price, who died on April 10 at age 90, was a...
David E. Apter, the Henry J. Heinz II Professor Emeritus of Comparative Political and Social Development and a noted scholar on the birth of developing nations, died May 4 at his home in North Haven from complications from cancer. He was 85.Apter, who...
President Richard C. Levin wrote to the Graduate School Community today announcing the new Dean of the Graduate School:It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Thomas D. Pollard, M.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular &...
Steven Pincus, professor of history, has been awarded the 2010 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize by the MacMillan Center for his book “1688: The First Modern Revolution” (Yale University Press, 2009).Established in 2005, the Gustav Ranis International...