On Friday, June 26, 6-8 p.m., Interim Sites will stage an event at 1156 Chapel Street, former home of the Jewish Community Center and future home of the Yale School of Art. To accommodate the celebration, two lanes of Chapel Street will be closed. The...
A conference titled “The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan’s Scattered Treasures” will be held at Yale, July 10-12, marking the culmination of three years of research by an international team of archaeologists, historians, art historians and religious...
Yale University’s School of Art will host a one-woman exhibition of works by Carol Schlosberg, former student and faculty member who was murdered in Mexico on March 29. The show will run from Monday, June 15, through Saturday, June 27, in the Art and...
A grant of $220,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow Yale to expand its Librarian-in-Residence program, which brings talented minority librarians to New Haven for a two-year term. Thanks to the new funding just announced by the Mellon...
His All Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree at Yale University’s 297th Commencement on May 25. His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is the 270th successor to the...
Entertainer Lena Horne was one of nine distinguished individuals awarded honorary degrees today at Yale University Commencement ceremonies. She received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Other honorary degree recipients were His All Holiness...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale has acquired the archive of Witold Gombrowicz, one of the great names of 20th century European modernism. Gombrowicz was born in Maloszyce, Poland, in 1904 and studied philosophy and law at the...
Women can use political skills to advance themselves in the job market as well as in public office, according to George Dean and Ann Sheffer, co-chairs of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale – WCS. Each June the school offers a five-day intensive...
Yale University anthropologist Floyd Glenn Lounsbury, an expert in American Indian languages, died Thursday, May 14, at Connecticut Hospice at the age of 84. The East Haven resident, who was the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, made...
This year may be a bonanza for women interested in running for office, according to leading political analysts, among them the co-chairs of The Women’s Campaign School at Yale – WCS. George Dean, prominent political activist in the Republican Party,...