David Swensen Yale’s Endowment earned a 22.9% return in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, bringing its value to $18.0 billion, the University’s Investments Office has announced. The Endowment’s value at...
New Haven, Conn. — Five distinguished alumni of Yale University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will receive the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal on October 12. This year’s Medalists are Eva Brann, Richard Brodhead, Mimi G. Gates, Lewis E. Kay and Richard...
An evening featuring members of Yale’s creative writing faculty reading from their recent work is scheduled for October 9 at 7 p.m. in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 61 High St., Room 102. The readers will be novelist John Crowley, poets Louise Glück, John...
On October 6-7, the Roosevelt Institution and Yale University will bring college administrators, elected officials, social advocates, and students together to discuss solutions to the challenge of increasing socioeconomic diversity in higher education. ...
A conference at Yale University honoring the influential writer and political philosopher Hannah Arendt will take place September 29 and 30 at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.Titled “Hannah Arendt at One Hundred: Crises of Our Republics,” the...
Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of The New Republic and author of “The Good Fight: Why Liberals - and Only Liberals - Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again,” will speak at Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on Thursday, September 28th....
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center (GLC) for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition has announced that Rebecca J. Scott, the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, has...
In his first public performance since his return to Yale as the dean of the School of Music, Robert Blocker will play three Mozart piano concerti to open the 2006–07 season of the Horowitz Piano Series on October 3.The concert will take place at 8 p.m. in...
Yale has just established the first university-based institute in North America dedicated to the study of antisemitism.The new center, the Yale Initiative for Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, will be directed by Charles Small and based at the...
Lisa Curran New Haven, Conn.— Lisa Curran, professor of tropical ecology and director of the Tropical Resources Institute at Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), has been...