Yale Law School has awarded four Knight Fellowships in Law for Journalists for 1996-97. The fellowships will be given to Carole Bass, Julie Cohen, Charles M. Lane, and Judy Peres. Carole Bass is managing editor of the New Haven...
Peter Gay, Yale University’s Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, was awarded the Gold Medal for History from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Gay joined the faculty of Yale in 1970, where he taught for over 20...
Professor Charles K. Kao, Vice Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a distinguished pioneer in optical fiber communications, has made a gift to Yale University to promote scholarly exchanges with Asia. The gift,...
Gilbert M. Joseph, professor of history and chairman of the Council on Latin American Studies at Yale University, has been appointed as a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for the 1996-97 academic year....
Twenty-two leading educators from Eastern Europe will gather at Yale University for a ground-breaking conference, the first ever to address how to teach the humanities in a post-Communist world. The conference, “Curricular Development in the...
Yale University alumnus Norman H. Tolman –’64 M.A.– has established a scholarship that will enable a Yale student to study at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies –IUC– in Yokohama. The gift honors Roy Andrew Miller, one of Mr....
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...
