The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust and the Sol Goldman Charitable Trust have announced a grant of $5 million to Yale Law School to endow the deanship of the School. The charitable trusts are named for the late New York City philanthropists Sol Goldman...
Four Yale students are among 13 winners of the 2005 Saxe Prize, awarded annually by the J.W. Saxe Memorial Fund of Washington, D.C. to encourage public service among college and university students. They will each receive $1,500 to assist them in...
A centuries-old singing tradition in Scotland , found by Yale professor and jazz musician Willie Ruff to be an ancestor of African-American singing traditions in the Deep South , will be celebrated at a Yale conference May 5-6. Singers from the Scottish...
Leaders of national civil rights organizations will join with legal scholars, social scientists, historians, and practitioners from across the country for “Lessons From the Past, Prospects for the Future: Honoring the Fortieth Anniversary of the Voting...
Yale University will hold the second annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education on April 1 and 2 in the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. Titled “A View from the Disciplines: Diversity and Inclusion in Curricula, Pedagogy and...
The parliamentary governments that developed in Western Europe and North America during the 17th and 18th centuries are the subject of an international conference at Yale, April 7–9. The three–day conference will span three locations, and the sessions...
On April 1, an international assembly of distinguished scholars and writers will meet at Yale for a two–day symposium on the significance of literature in the lives of individuals and contemporary culture. Participants include the Israeli novelist and...
Retired Yale University French Professor Jacques Guicharnaud, 80, died at home in New Haven on March 5. Guicharnaud was the Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French. He taught at Yale from 1950 until his retirement in 1997, with the exception of a brief...
Distinguished Yale professor and celebrated literary critic Harold Bloom will receive the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2005 in Odense, Denmark, on April 2 in an event to launch a year–long 200th birthday celebration for the city’s most famous native son...
Architect Frank Gehry will speak at Yale as a Chubb Fellow on March 23, at 5 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. One of the most prominent architects alive today, Gehry has been in practice for over four decades. Known for the...