The 1998 Peace Games at Yale Festival will take place Saturday, April 4, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The media are invited to cover this highly visual town/gown event that emphasizes cooperation instead of competition. The festival will bring students from nine...
Carol Jayne Schlosberg, 40, artist and painter, died Sunday, March 29, in Puerto Escondido, on the Pacific coast of Mexico. An alumna of Yale School of Art (M.F.A. 1992), she taught at the school from 1993-1995. She worked in New Haven for John...
The following talks at Yale University the week of April 6-12 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Science historian to give talk at Whitney Humanities Center Steven Shapin, professor of sociology and science studies at the...
Norman E. Johnson, senior vice president of technology, Weyerhaeuser Co., will present the next Yale Faculty of Engineering Dean’s Distinguished Guest Lecture. Titled “Sustainability – The Role of Renewable Resources,” the lecture will be Friday, April...
Robert W. Galvin, chairman of the executive committee of Motorola Inc., a leading firm in paging and cellular telephone technologies, will present the next Sheffield Fellowship address at Yale University. His talk, titled “Is there leadership without...
The dialogue on race in America initiated by President Clinton will open at Yale University on Monday, April 13, when campus representatives and New Haven community leaders gather in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets, at 8 p.m. to...
Bert Bolin, emeritus professor of meteorology at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, and former chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is the Zucker Environmental Fellow for 1998. Bolin will present a lecture titled “Science...
Curtis Hanson, Oscar-winning screenwriter and director, will be the next Chubb Fellow at Yale. He will speak on Tuesday, April 21, on his Academy-award winning motion picture, “L.A. Confidential: Image and Reality in the City of Manufactured Illusion...
Yale University will host the world premiere of a specially commissioned symphonic work by Ezra Laderman, professor of composition at the Yale School of Music, on May 2, 9 p.m., in Woolsey Hall, corner of Grove and College streets. The concert, in...
Susan Hockfield, professor of neurobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, has been appointed dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University President Richard C. Levin announced today. Yale’s Graduate School is the largest of the...