The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York, N.Y., has announced the renewal of a grant to Yale University which will provide approximately $670,000 in 1996-97 for the continuation of a program to improve the quality and effectiveness of Yale graduate...
Yale University’s History of Art and African and African-American Studies departments have named graduate student David Doris the first winner of the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize. Sylvia Boone, a noted scholar of African art, was the first tenured...
Christine E. Hayes, a scholar of Talmudic studies and Judaism in late antiquity, has joined the faculty as the Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica, President Richard C. Levin has announced. Ms...
She was raised in Connecticut and now lives in California, but her vivid descriptions of the Brazilian jungle are what won Talvikki Ansel the 1996 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Ms. Ansel’s manuscript, “Teatro Amazonas,” is named for an...
The Yale University Russian Chorus will soon release its first CD for international distribution. “Chants and Carols,” on Epiphany Recordings, will be available at HMV, Tower Records, Borders, Barnes and Noble, and other major outlets later this...
Distinguished religious leaders from across the country and abroad will converge on Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale for the Annual Convocation, October 7-9. “An important aspect of Yale Divinity School’s mission is to...
Affirmative action is under attack. In recent decisions, the judicial system has rejected its claims and politicians are asking, why? for whom? and how long? The recent ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Hopwood v. Texas...
John Polkinghorne, president of Queens’ College at the University of Cambridge, will explore belief in God in a scientific age in a lecture series at Yale University titled “Science & Religion: Patterns of Collegiality.” The four Dwight H....
The following talks at Yale University during the week of Sept. 29-Oct. 5 are free and open to the public. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist will be guest at master’s tea William Kennedy, who won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle...
Human beings, contended German philosopher Ernst Cassirer, are essentially characterized by their symbolizing activity, that is, their ability to use concepts to give shape to the natural world. An international and interdisciplinary array of...
