President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Yale historian Frank M. Turner as the director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. “Professor Turner brings to the Beinecke directorship more than 30 years of experience in the...
Honoring the Strega Prize (Il Premio Strega), Italy’s most prestigious literary award, Yale University is bringing three recent winners and several celebrated critics to campus for a weekend of celebration, October 3-4. Now in its 57th year, the Prize,...
Andrew Revkin, environment reporter for The New York Times, will discuss, “The Daily Planet: Why the Media Have Trouble Covering the Biggest Story in the World – The World Itself” on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall at the...
The Yale School of Architecture is hosting a symposium October 24-26 on the relationship between psychoanalysis and architecture, a complex topic that has eluded multi-disciplined scrutiny. The symposium will gather architects, analysts and academics...
Esteemed Yale professor Vincent J. Scully Jr., one of the nation’s foremost architectural historians and critics, has been selected as the fourth annual recipient of the Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionary Urban Development. Scully...
Poet Anthony Hecht, whose work has earned him a Pulitzer Prize and the Robert Frost Medal, will speak at a Master’s Tea and hold a reading at Calhoun College at Yale University on September 25 at 4:30 p.m. Anthony Hecht, whose first book of poems, “A...
Yale University School of Architecture welcomes the public to the dedication on September 19, at 5:30 p.m., of a new house at 161 Porter Street, designed and built by its students as part of the School’s First Year Building Project. Groundbreaking for...
Lectures by such prominent designers, architects and theorists as Moshe Safdie, Gregg Pasquarelli, Rafael Vinoly and Charles Correa and a symposium on the subject of psychoanalysis and architecture are among the highlights of the first term of this...
Yale researchers have found that the existence of negative stereotypes about abilities such as intelligence actually enhances the performance of those who do not bear the stereotype. There have been many studies about how pervasive negative stereotypes...
“Intricacy,” an exhibition opening at the Yale School of Architecture on September 3, and a related symposium held the same day will explore the new visual landscape wrought by the digital revolution. Curated by the architect and theorist Greg Lynn,...