Columnist Frank Rich of The New York Times will discuss “Journalism in the Age of Monica” as the first Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale for 1998-99. Rich will deliver his talk at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, in the Yale University Art Gallery...
Noted theologians will highlight the annual Convocation of the Divinity School and the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, Monday-Thursday, Oct. 12-15. In keeping with tradition, the Convocation will be built around two distinguished lecture series, the...
10/09/98: Belated Honors to Yale’s First Black Alumnus New Haven, Conn. – Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918) was the first African American to graduate from Yale College, the second African American in the nation to be nominated to Phi Beta Kappa, and...
The Ethel F. Donaghue Women’s Health Investigator Program at Yale School of Medicine recently announced its first round of grants for studies of women’s health. These are the first awards made since the program received a $6.5 million grant from The...
The Sumitomo Bank Global Foundation has awarded its first grant to an American university, and the recipient is the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS). The grant will support the education of scholars from Central Asia. This...
Robert Glaser, founder and chief executive officer of RealNetworks, the recognized leader in “streaming” media products and services for the Internet, will be the next Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering. His talk, titled “The...
The U. S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Technology Policy and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies will sponsor a roundtable discussion titled “The Environmental Industry: Essential or Obsolete?” at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22, in...
The dedication of Yale’s new Irving S. Gilmore Music Library will take place Friday, Oct. 16, at 4 p.m. The new library is housed within Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St. Reporters are invited to get a first look at the new facility during an...
Teams from Connecticut and New York high schools will compete Saturday, Oct.. 17, in the Yale Physics Olympics. The event, which will be held at Sloane Physics Laboratory, 217 Prospect St., is designed to stimulate interest in science and to provide...
Electrical engineering professor Tso-Ping Ma uses the creation of “Post-Its” as an analogy for the prize-winning invention of his graduate student Jin-Ping Han. Years ago, researchers at 3-M Corp. were trying to concoct the stickiest glue, but came up...