Mary E. “Jane” Greenfield, who served for many years as a conservator for the Yale University Library, died at her home in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, on July 20. She was 91.Greenfield set up the Conservation Studio in Sterling Memorial Library in 1973...
Innovative applications of next-generation DNA sequencing technologies, and the societal impact of the insights gleaned from them, will be the focus of a symposium being held on Friday, Sept. 19.Organized by the graduate and postdoctoral students of the...
This fall the Yale Center for British Art will serve as the first and only venue for a small exhibition about a late 18th-century hoax that fooled several prominent British artists and sheds light on a number of technical and historical issues.“Benjamin...
Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain, will join Yale President Richard C. Levin for a conversation on Friday, Sept. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, corner of Grove and College streets.Blair is expected to reflect on his decade-long tenure...
Members of the Yale community will have the opportunity to meet this year’s World Fellows during the annual World Fellows Night celebration on Thursday, Sept. 18.All of the 18 World Fellows will create displays about their countries and their work, and...
Five Yale University alumni have been selected by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) to receive the Yale Medal in 2008. This year’s recipients are Edward A. Dennis, Linda Koch Lorimer, Roslyn Milstein Meyer, Don T. Nakanishi and William H. Wright II....
The public is invited to witness the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned barn-raising on September 20, as members of the Yale community — students, faculty, alumni, and friends — pitch in to raise a new pavilion at the Yale Farm on Edwards Street. This...
In celebration of Yale University’s world-renowned architectural heritage, the Yale Visitor Center will host two historic preservation walking tours on campus in September. Both tours are free and open to the public. The first, on Saturday, September 20,...
Works by two Yale-affiliated artists — one a Pulitzer Prize-winning faculty member and the other a staff member at the School of Drama — will be featured in the exhibition “Piecing It Together: Collages by Donald Margulies and Deborah Berman.” The show...
Marwan Muasher, former ambassador to the United States, author and political reformer, will deliver the Henry L. Stimson Lecture on World Affairs on September 16 at 4 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The title of his Stimson Lecture is “Moderation and...