“Lydia,” a new play by award-winning playwright Octavio Solis about a Mexican immigrant family caught in a web of dark secrets, will be staged Feb. 6-28 at the Yale Repertory Theatre.The production marks the Yale Rep debut for Solis, a playwright and...
Yale community members volunteered their time at a number of agencies around New Haven as part of the Community Service Day on Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day, Jan. 19. One site where they worked was the New Haven Reads office, which is housed in space...
An exhibition examining Pablo Picasso’s lifelong relationship with writers and the many ways in which language affected his work opened on Jan. 27 at the Yale University Art Gallery.“Picasso and the Allure of Language” comprises some 70 works in all media...
Policymakers, scholars and civil society leaders from around the world will examine the role that international criminal prosecution should play in the strategy to end the violence in Darfur and other massive conflicts in a Yale Law School conference on...
Environmental writer Elizabeth Kolbert, award-winning author of “Field Notes from a Catastrophe,” will visit the campus on Wednesday, Feb. 4.Kolbert will be the guest at a master’s tea at 4 p.m. in the Branford College master’s house, 80 High St. At 6 p.m...
The piano will be the featured instrument when the winners of the 2008-2009 Friends of Music at Yale Undergraduate Recital Competition show off their musical talents in a performance on Sunday, Feb. 8.The free concert will take place at 3 p.m. in Sudler...
Yale student Eli Bildner’s first job was to ask wealthy people for money to support worthy causes. When he got to Yale, he decided he would rather raise funds for poor but ambitious businesses in New Haven.Bildner - who may have inherited his knack for...
The Yale men’s hockey team took a break from normal practice on Jan. 19 and ventured outside to skate on the pond next to the clubhouse on the University’s golf course.It is believed to be the first time a Bulldog varsity team has done anything official...
In an address to the Italian Parliament in Rome on Jan. 12, Yale Fertility Center Director Dr. Pasquale Patrizio provided statistics showing that a 2004 Italian law that restricts in-vitro fertilization (IVF) practices is resulting in fewer pregnancies...
Carol R. Ember, executive director of the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).The AAAS awarded the distinction to 486 of its members this year. Ember was chosen for...