The Schools of Drama and Music have joined forces to launch the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, a program designed to help nurture gifted young musical theater writers.The artistic director of the program will be Mark Brokaw, whose directing credits...
By the time they complete his mechanical engineering class, Professor John Morrell’s students will have designed and built a hybrid car or a model airplane and entered them in national competitions.During the semester, the Yale undergraduates in his class...
Yale School of Drama dean James Bundy is among five individuals and organizations being honored by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven as artistic “ground breakers.”Bundy, who is also artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, is a recipient of...
Student composer’s work to be premiered in local concertThe New Haven Chorale will perform the world premiere of a commissioned work for chorus and orchestra by Colin Britt, a student of choral conducting at the School of Music.The chorale will present...
Two current Yale undergraduates and a recent alumna will be studying in Britain and Ireland next year as either Rhodes or Mitchell Scholars. Jarrad M. Aguirre ’09 is among the 32 Americans selected as Rhodes Scholars for study at Oxford next year, and...
Yale University will open the historic Mead Visitor Center, 149 Elm St., to the public on December 4, 5–7:30 p.m. for tours and light refreshments. The Open House is being held in conjunction with the City of New Haven’s holiday festivities on the nearby...
The United Way of Greater New Havens’s Leadership Circle has recognized Bruce Alexander, vice president for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development at Yale, and his wife, Christine Alexander, the founder and executive director of New Haven...
With HHMI funding, these Yale scientists are working to solve some of the most challenging biomedical mysteries.When the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has gone looking for biomedical researchers of “intellectual daring” in recent years, one place...
Yale and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will share a $10 million grant to study the way cocaine use during pregnancy affects interactions between mothers and infants.The Yale portion of the study will be spearheaded by Dr. Linda Mayes,...
Fellow Yale rowers Bob Casey and Rich Littlehale enjoy scheming about potential business ventures, but when they became serious about forming a company to sell vitamin water — with some of the proceeds supporting health research — they realized that there...