Peter Halley, newly designated as the William Leffingwell Professor of Painting, is known for his geometric paintings that have been featured in exhibitions and galleries around the world.Known as a minimalist artist whose paintings are often created...
As part of the ongoing initiative related to workplace safety and security throughout the Yale campus, effective Jan. 1, the University will no longer rely on the stickers that are placed on Yale ID cards to indicate active cards.When a Yale ID card is...
There’s something about swirling vortices that’s mesmerizing — whether in churning ocean currents or curling threads of smoke from a fire. But when Nick Ouellette stares at such patterns, it isn’t the swirls that catch his attention. It’s the places in...
Alumni who were students at the time of the co-education of Yale College will discuss their experiences during a day-long program on Saturday, Jan. 30, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the admission of women as undergraduates.The event is hosted by the...
Art and science will mingle on Friday, Jan. 29, when a performance of “Lil’s 90th” at the Long Wharf Theatre will follow a forum on Alzheimer’s disease.Top Yale scientists will be featured speakers at “Global Health & The Arts: A Forum on Alzheimer’s...
John Edwin Smith, an early champion of the tradition of American philosophy who taught at Yale for nearly 40 years, died on Dec. 7 while visiting his daughter in Arlington, Virginia. He was 88 years old.Smith’s many publications include “Reason and God,...
In 1935, in order to generate support for New Deal reforms, the Historical Division of the Farm Security Administration — and later the Office of War Information — began making photographic surveys of economic struggle and social dislocation in Depression...
Yale President Richard C. Levin presented a $5,000 contribution for Haitian relief efforts today to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the opening ceremony of the Global Colloquium of University Presidents.“As a caring, global...
Yale student musicians, including the incomparable Whiffenpoofs and Yale Gospel Choir, will put on a concert, “Help Can’t Wait Haiti,” to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake on Monday evening, Martin Luther King Day.The benefit concert will...
DeVita elected to top post in American Cancer Society Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. was elected second vice-president of the American Cancer Society (ACS), the nation’s largest voluntary health organization. DeVita is the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of...