Yale University’s History of Art and African and African-American Studies departments have named graduate student David Doris the first winner of the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize. Sylvia Boone, a noted scholar of African art, was the first tenured...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York, N.Y., has announced the renewal of a grant to Yale University which will provide approximately $670,000 in 1996-97 for the continuation of a program to improve the quality and effectiveness of Yale graduate...
Yale University alumnus Norman H. Tolman –’64 M.A.– has established a scholarship that will enable a Yale student to study at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies –IUC– in Yokohama. The gift honors Roy Andrew Miller, one of Mr....
Twenty-two leading educators from Eastern Europe will gather at Yale University for a ground-breaking conference, the first ever to address how to teach the humanities in a post-Communist world. The conference, “Curricular Development in the...
Gilbert M. Joseph, professor of history and chairman of the Council on Latin American Studies at Yale University, has been appointed as a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for the 1996-97 academic year....
Professor Charles K. Kao, Vice Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a distinguished pioneer in optical fiber communications, has made a gift to Yale University to promote scholarly exchanges with Asia. The gift,...
Yale Law School has awarded four Knight Fellowships in Law for Journalists for 1996-97. The fellowships will be given to Carole Bass, Julie Cohen, Charles M. Lane, and Judy Peres. Carole Bass is managing editor of the New Haven...
Peter Gay, Yale University’s Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, was awarded the Gold Medal for History from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Gay joined the faculty of Yale in 1970, where he taught for over 20...
Local high school students will sing, dance, and perform in Russian, Gaelic, German, Portuguese, Swahili, and ancient Greek at a colorful celebration tonight, May 23, 7-9:30 p.m., in Yale University’s Luce Hall Auditorium at...
Tradition at Yale runs deep. It should come as no surprise, under the circumstances, that one of the first projects in the current renovation of the University’s main library was upgrading the Memorabilia Room. Closed for...
