The Yale School of Architecture will host four renowned architects as visiting professors during the Spring 1999 semester, Dean Robert A.M. Stern announced today. Philip Johnson, Hendrik (Hank) Koning and Julie Eizenberg, and Charles Gwathmey will join...
Yale has established a new center to study the role of religion in a rapidly changing world. The Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, funded by a $2.2 million gift from The Pew Charitable Trusts, will focus public, academic and ecclesiastical...
American environmental historian William Cronon, who is the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be this fall’s Zucker Environmental Fellow. Cronon will lecture...
George David, chairman and chief executive officer at United Technologies Corp., will be the next Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering. His talk, titled “UTC Positioned for the Next Millennium,” will be presented Thursday, Nov. 5...
The following talks at Yale University the week of Nov. 2-8 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Economic growth is subject of annual Kuznets Lectures Noted economist Angus Maddison, a professor at the University of Groningen in...
Henry P. Becton, director emeritus of Becton Dickinson and Company, will present the next Sheffield Fellowship address at Yale University. His talk, titled “Bringing a 100-year-old Company into its Second Century,” will be presented Tuesday, Nov. 17, at...
Shachar Tauber, M.D., recently traveled to Beijing, where he was Laser Education Ambassador to China at the Global Chinese Ophthalmology Congress. Tauber is director of Yale School of Medicine’s new Laser Vision Correction Service and medical...
Yale University will dedicate the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition on Monday, Nov. 16, at 3 p.m., with a ceremony at the Amistad Memorial in front of New Haven City Hall, 165 Church St. The following free,...
In a Peruvian valley only recently touched by the pressures of urbanization, Yale University scientists have found evidence of ancient Andean metallurgy dating as far back as 3,400 years ago, almost a millennium earlier than previously thought. Thin...
The following talks at Yale University Nov. 9-16 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Social-political philosopher to give Law School’s Storrs Lectures Philosopher Charles Taylor, a professor emeritus at McGill University who...