Davos, Switzerland — Switzerland tops the global list of countries ranked by environmental performance, according to the 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) produced by a team of environmental experts at Yale University and Columbia University.The...
Yale School of Drama has received a $3.235 million gift from The Jerome L. Greene Foundation, Inc. to establish an endowed scholarship fund.“This is the largest single gift for scholarships ever made to Yale Drama School,” said Dean James Bundy. The...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Paula Vogel as the Eugene O’Neill Professor (Adjunct) and Chair of the Department of Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama, for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2008...
The Robotic Chair A robotic chair designed to collapse and completely rebuild itself will give a free and public performance at the gallery of the Yale School of Art, 1156 Chapel Street, on January 23 at 5...
The 34th Yale Model United Nations (YMUN) conference will take place January 24–27.About 1300 high school student delegates from around the country and abroad will participate in this simulation. The event is presented by the Yale International Relations...
Holt Bradford Westerfield, Yale University’s Damon Wells Professor Emeritus of International Studies and a longstanding member of the department of political science, died peacefully on January 19, 2008 at the age of 79 near his summer home in Watch Hill...
Azar Nafisi, award-winning author of the acclaimed memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” will deliver this year’s Finzi-Contini Lecture at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, on February 7 at 4:30 p.m. Her talk, “The Republic of the Imagination,”...
E.P. Sanders, Arts and Sciences Professor of Religion Emeritus at Duke University, will launch the 2008 Franke Lecture series on “Religion and Law in Historical Perspective” with a talk at 5 p.m. on February 6 at the Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium,...
To commemorate the life and the work of noted Italian author Primo Levi (1919–1987), best known for his searing Holocaust memoir “Survival in Auschwitz,” Yale University will host an international conference on February 28–29 in the Whitney Humanities...
Midwestern farming has introduced the equivalent of five Connecticut Rivers into the Mississippi River over the past 50 years and is adding more carbon dioxide annually into its waters, according to a study published in Nature by researchers at Yale and...