Elizabeth Alexander, an award-winning poet and Yale professor of African American studies and English literature, has been selected to compose and read an original poem at the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. “I’m completely...
Rolena Adorno, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, has won the Modern Language Association of America’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, awarded annually for an outstanding...
Yale University Professor of History Stuart B. Schwartz has won the first annual Cundill International Prize in History, awarded by McGill University, for his book “All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World” (Yale...
Huynh Sanh Thong, considered the preeminent translator of Vietnamese poetry and literature into English and the former director of the Yale Southeast Asian Refugee Project, died on Nov. 17 of sudden heart failure. He was 82 years old. Huynh dedicated much...
A concert to raise money for malaria relief will be held at Woolsey Hall on Saturday, December 13 from 8 to 10 pm. Performers include St Luke’s Chorus and members of the Yale Alumni Chorus. Called the “Tony Blair Faith Foundation Malaria Relief Concert,”...
Huynh Sanh Thong, considered the preeminent translator of Vietnamese poetry and literature into English and the former director of the Yale Southeast Asian Refugee Project, died on Nov. 17 of sudden heart failure. He was 82 years old. Huynh dedicated much...
Carolyn R. Nordstrom, professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver the final lecture in the Fall 2008 Franke series, “Mental Geography: Mapping, Cognition, Appropriation, Inscription.” Her talk, titled “emergent(cies)…,” is on...
Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and foreign policy specialist, will present an open lecture on November 18 at 4 p.m. in the Presidents’ Room at Woolsey Hall, the corner of College and Grove streets. Power’s talk is sponsored by the Yale...
New Delhi, India: Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced details of the Yale India Initiative in a ceremony in New Delhi, India attended by representatives of India’s academic, civil society, corporate, and government communities. The Yale...
A new professorship has been established in honor of Yale economist and former provost William C. Brainard by his friends and colleagues.Benjamin Polak has been named the inaugural William C. Brainard Professor of Economics (see related story).The...