A group of New Haven students who adapt plays by Eugene O’Neill to make them personally relevant will perform their most recent works at Yale’s Off-Broadway Theatre, 41 Broadway, on June 16-17 as part of the Arts & Ideas/New Haven Festival. The...
President Richard C. Levin today announced the appointment of Harold Attridge, the Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament, as dean of the Yale Divinity School. Attridge, an active Roman Catholic layman, came to Yale in 1997 from the University of...
At a ceremony held in Barcelona last month, Yale professor and literary critic Harold Bloom was awarded the prestigious Catalonia International Prize for his lasting contribution to the humanities. Described in the award citation as “an original thinker...
In his new book “The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time” (W.W. Norton), Yale professor John Merriman presents a portrait of a tiny medieval town from its prehistoric origins through its heyday as a producer of silk to its reincarnation as a...
In “Bush v. Gore: The Question of Legitimacy,” published this week by Yale University Press and edited by Yale Law professor Bruce Ackerman, some of the nation’s most distinguished legal scholars explore the historic Supreme Court decision that...
Yale Law School has announced the recipients of the Knight Fellowships in Law for Journalists for the 2002-2003 academic year. The fellows are Luiza Chwialkowska, National Post; Charles Savage, The Miami Herald; and Dean Smith, The Charlotte Observer....
Yale University Librarian Alice Prochaska announced the first phase of the Electronic Library Initiatives (ELI) program-a focused effort to facilitate and study the use of digital images and other materials in teaching, learning and scholarship. Yale...
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University will host an educational conference on the subject of Slavery and Freedom in New England, July 25 -July 28, 2002. The event is the first national meeting of...
Recent work of the innovative design firm MVRDV and the opposing views of prominent architectural theorists Peter Eisenman and Leon Krier are the subjects of exhibitions and symposia at the Yale School of Architecture this fall. The season will open on...
King-lui Wu, professor emeritus of architecture at Yale University, died of pneumonia in New Haven on August 15, 2002, at the age of 84. Wu was born on March 25, 1918, in Canton, China, where he was educated at Lingnan Middle School. After coming to...