Eugene F. Policelli, 62, of South Windsor, Conn., died unexpectedly on Aug. 24. An accomplished scholar and educator, Dr. Policelli was the founding director of Graduate Career Services at Yale University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In the...
About 1,300 freshmen in the Yale Class of 2002 will attend their first academic lecture exploring discoveries about twists and quirks of the human mind on Sunday, Aug. 30, 7:15-8:15 p.m. Psychologist Mahzarin R. Banaji will present the Ralph H. Thomas...
Rabbi David Hartman, a philosopher and social activist, will be the next Terry Lecturer at Yale. He will deliver three addresses on the theme, “Struggling for the Soul of Israel: a Jewish Response to History.” All three talks are free and the public...
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale will host a conference titled “The Broken Middle: Cultural Studies and the Liberal Imagination,” Sept. 25-26, in the Center’s Auditorium, 53 Wall St. In the early 1950s, Lionel Trilling claimed that in the United...
DreamWorks Pictures has donated a 35mm print of the feature film “Amistad” to Yale University’s Film Studies Program and Film Study Center, thanks to executive producer and DreamWorks co-head Walter Parkes (Yale College, Class of 1973). The print will...
Yale University Press has announced a winner in the 1998 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. The judge, distinguished poet W.S. Merwin, chose Craig Arnold’s manuscript, “Shells,” which Yale University Press will publish in the spring of 1999...
Rwanda. Congo. Somalia. Violent regional and ethnic tensions have erupted in Africa in recent years, leaving thousands dead, wounded and driven from their homes. The first step in preventing a repetition of these tragedies is to understand them...
Social studies teachers from around the country and across town have converged on Yale to study Africa, China, Russia and other nations in the news. The goal is to give educators the latest and most complete information about what they cover in their...
The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival will take a breather from classical music to celebrate George Gershwin’s 100th birthday on Friday, July 17, and Saturday, July 18, at the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate in Connecticut’s Litchfield Hills. The Norfolk...
Vincent Scully, the Sterling Professor Emeritus and lecturer in the history of art at Yale University, will deliver the opening address for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas’ three-day symposium, “Cities of the Future: Dinosaurs or Dynamos...