Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition has awarded the 2007 Frederick Douglass Book Prize to Christopher Leslie Brown, visiting professor of history at Columbia University, for “Moral Capital:...
The newly renovated and renamed Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library (formerly known as the Cross Campus Library) will open its doors on October 19 after undergoing extensive renovations.Members of the Yale community will get their first glimpse of the Bass...
Visitors to an upcoming demonstration/exhibit at the Yale School of Art, 1156 Chapel Street, will be able to observe the creative process unfolding as a group of artists figure out how to “make do” with a material of their choice, and then later see the...
The nature of religious architecture in the contemporary age is the focus of two events being held at Yale this week.A conference titled “Architecture for Worship in the 21st Century” will take place Thursday–Friday, October 25–26, at the Institute of...
To inaugurate a new pipe organ with a 17th-century temperament in Yale’s Marquand Chapel, the University is holding a yearlong series of events featuring eminent musicians and scholars.The events to inaugurate the new Taylor and Boody organ include...
Joseph Califano Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, will discuss strategies for curbing substance abuse in a talk at Yale School of Medicine on October 19 titled, “High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What To Do...
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies is launching an online magazine that aims to become one of the world’s leading sites for authoritative, cutting-edge opinion, commentary and in-depth reporting on the major environmental issues of...
Deno John Geanakoplos, the Bradford Durfee Professor Emiterus of Byzantine History, Renaissance History, and Orthodox Church History at Yale University, died on October 4 in Hamden, CT. He was 91 years old.Professor Geanakoplos was a renowned scholar of...
Erol Fikrig, M.D., a Yale School of Medicine researcher who specializes in the study and treatment of Lyme disease, West Nile virus, and other vector-borne diseases, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator.HHMI is a non-profit...
The Helene Fuld Health Trust of New York has pledged $2 million to help Yale University School of Nursing (YSN) provide critically needed financial aid for students who enroll in its highly competitive graduate entry program for non-nurses.The Trust also...