Abbas Amanat, professor of history and former chair of the Council on Middle East Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, has been selected as a Carnegie Scholar for 2006.Amanat will explore “Defying Islamic Conformity: Skeptics,...
Robert Blocker President Richard C. Levin announced today that distinguished concert pianist Robert Blocker will return to Yale as Dean of the School of Music in July.During his tenure as dean from 1995-2005, Blocker was credited with...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced today the selection of the 2006 Yale World Fellows.The Yale World Fellows Program—the only program of its kind—aims to build a global network of emerging leaders and to broaden international...
A current exhibition on the pioneering environmental activist and author of “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson, will be at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Wall and High streets, through June.The publication of “Silent Spring” in 1962 marked...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin Yale University President Richard C. Levin was honored with the Community Dialogue Project’s 2006 Reverend Howard Nash Community Leadership Award on May 3 at the New Haven Lawn Club.The Dialogue...
Yale’s University Properties celebrates the opening of Villarina’s Pasta, Gifts and More in the Chapel-College District of New Haven. The press is invited to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Villarina’s at 11 a.m. on May 11 at 1092 Chapel St. The new...
William Sloane Coffin Jr. A public memorial service for the late Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. (1924–2006) will be held at Yale’s Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets, on May 27 at 2 p.m.Coffin died on April 12 at his home...
Yale University’s 2006 Commencement will be held on May 21 and May 22 on the Yale campus.All members of the media must obtain and display Yale media credentials during Class Day (Sunday) and Commencement (Monday) ceremonies. Please email credential...
James Austin Broussard, Sarah Cannon, Sarah Scott Stillman and Aaron Simcha Zelinsky, four members of the Yale College Class of 2006 who have been remarkably active in the Yale and New Haven communities, were awarded the Roosevelt L. Thompson Prize during...
Six faculty members were honored as outstanding teachers at Yale College’s Senior Class Day program on May 21.The faculty members were nominated by undergraduates to receive the Yale College Prizes for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and the Sarai...