Yale University President Richard Levin announced today the appointment of Robert C. Post ’77 J.D. as Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Post joined the Yale Law School faculty in 2003 as David Boies Professor of Law,...
Award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on September 22.Brokaw’s lecture on the future of journalism will take place at 5 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall Street. The event is free and...
Alumni from around the world will gather in New Haven to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, 211 Park Street, October 16-18.The weekend will include a conference titled “Charting a Course for the Next Generation of...
Polish poet and translator Piotr Sommer has been appointed by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) as the Franke Visiting Fellow for the fall semester.On Tuesday, Oct. 20, Sommer will give a public reading, “Overdoing It and Other Poems,” at 4:30 p.m. in...
The United Way of Greater New Haven has honored former Law School dean Guido Calabresi and his wife, Anne Calabresi, with the Herbert H. Pearce Award as “community champions for justice, equality and benevolence.”The couple received the award at the...
In 1609, a little pamphlet touched off a big debate that shaped modern international law. The Lillian Goldman Law Library marks the 400th anniversary of this event with its exhibition “Freedom of the Seas, 1609: Grotius and the Emergence of International...
Cultural anthropologist Melvin Ember, who helped foster the comparative study of culture during his more than 20 years of service as president of Yale’s Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), died on Sept. 26 after a 10-year battle with prostate cancer. He...
A dramatic shift in the way Americans receive news and information, stimulated by the growing dominance of the Internet and other electronic media, is the focus of the conference “Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?” at Yale...
Soledad O’Brien, anchor and special correspondent for CNN Worldwide, will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Tuesday, November 10.O’Brien’s lecture, “Diversity in the Media: Behind the Scenes & in Our Lives,” will take...
“Expanding Horizons” is the theme of the ninth annual Yale School of Management (SOM) Private Equity Conference being held on Friday, Nov. 6, at the Hyatt hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut.This year’s program will focus on the trends and opportunities for...
