Yale University will host a two-day conference, May 16 and 17, to examine Ukraine’s economy during the past five years of independence. Sponsored by the Council on Russian and East European Studies and the Program in International...
Historian Ivan Marcus, Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History at Yale University, has made some surprising discoveries about Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages. Conventional wisdom has it that the Jewish minority in...
Richard Mead Atwater Benson, adjunct professor of photography, has been named dean of the Yale University School of Art, beginning July 1, 1996, University President Richard Levin announced today. He will replace David Pease, who has...
Six graduates of Yale College have been named Yale-China Association fellows. They will spend two years, fall 1996-spring 1998, teaching English in China and Hong Kong. One fellow is blazing a new trail for the program, serving as the...
A memorial service will be held on Monday, May 6, for Virginia A. Henderson, a long-time researcher at the School of Nursing whose textbooks are used worldwide. Ms. Henderson died March 19 in Branford. She was 98 years old. The...
African drums will beat out their powerful rhythms on Friday, April 26, to celebrate the rebirth of the African Outreach Program at Yale University. Newly renamed the Program in International Educational Resources P.I.E.R./African...
“Elms and Magnolias: Old Blue in a Coat of Gray” takes a long, proud look at some of Yale’s distinguished sons – and two daughters – of the American South. The exhibit, on view in the main hall of Sterling Memorial Library now through...
The role of letter-writing in the lives of women throughout the centuries is celebrated in a new exhibit opening on Friday, April 19, at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. “Woman to Woman” includes...
What was Richard Nixon like? How close to reality is Anthony Hopkins’ interpretation in the recent Oliver Stone film? Veteran newsman Sander Vanocur will speak on “Nixon: the Man and the Movie,” at Yale University’s Whitney...
Scholars from the fields of law, philosophy, history, architecture, Italian, English, and Comparative Literature will gather at Yale University on April 12 and 13 for an interdisciplinary conference, “Vico and the Map of...
