Kathryn Marie Dudley, associate professor of American Studies and anthropology at Yale University, has been named the winner of the 2000-2001 Margaret Mead Award, presented annually by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the American Anthropological...
Four distinguished architects will hold endowed visiting professorships of design at Yale University’s School of Architecture this spring. They are Greg Lynn, Andres Duany, Leon Krier and Glenn Murcutt. Lynn will be the Davenport Professor, Duany and...
(Editors and Reporters: the location of the Democratic Vistas lectures has been changed to Battell Chapel. The talks were initially scheduled at Yale Law School) Yale University’s celebration of its 300th birthday will feature weekly lectures on...
Yale University has received two grants totaling more than $1.1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. in support of projects at the Institute of Sacred Music and the Divinity School. The grants will help fund the study of liturgical practices at the...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced the appointment of Barbara A. Shailor as the new director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Since 1996, Shailor has been dean of Douglass College at Rutgers, The State...
The Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will host a lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy on February 2 at 4 p.m., Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. Kennedy’s talk, “A Tale of Three Cities: How the United States Won...
Rolena Adorno, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, has won the American Historical Association’s J. Franklin Jameson Award for her three-volume tour de force, “Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of...
Edmund S. Morgan, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale and a leading scholar of American colonial history, was among 12 recipients of the National Humanities Medal for 2000. Cited on the certificate he received at the award ceremony on Dec...
Yale University will host a symposium on issues in contemporary Irish film, February 1-4, in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will feature panels, lectures and discussions with 21 prominent...
The Yale University Art Gallery has received an ownership claim regarding an 1864 painting by Gustave Courbet on loan to the Art Gallery since 1981. The claim was made by the son of the late Josephine Weinmann, a Jewish citizen who left Germany before...