The nephew and friends of author Thornton Wilder, Yale Class of 1920, as well as drama students and playwrights influenced by his work, will gather on campus with scholars from the United States and Russia to participate in a free public symposium on...
Longtime Yale University faculty member Donald M. Crothers of Northford has been named Sterling Professor of Chemistry by vote of the Yale Corporation. In his research, Professor Crothers studies the three-dimensional structure and dynamics of DNA and...
Donald M. Engelman of Guilford has been named Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry by vote of the Yale Corporation. In his laboratory, Professor Engelman is working with cell membranes to understand how the one-dimensional...
The following talks and performances at Yale University during the week of Sept. 15-21 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. The art of Hebrew translation Israeli poet Linda Zisquit and Israeli translator Barbara Harshav will discuss...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin has announced that Vice President and Secretary Linda Koch Lorimer will assume responsibility as liaison officer to the Association of Yale Alumni – AYA – and the Yale Alumni Magazine, beginning Jan. 1. The...
Yale Divinity School Dean Richard J. Wood announced this week that six New Haven residents have been elected Coffin-Forsberg Fellows for the 1997-98 academic year. The non-monetary Fellowships honor the recipients’ service to the community and engage...
Several long-term construction projects on the Yale University campus – including a $37-million renovation of the massive Payne Whitney Gymnasium and ongoing work at Sterling Memorial Library – provided scores of local summer construction jobs, with the...
The following items list recent accomplishments by Yale University faculty and staff: Karl K. Turekian of North Haven, the Benjamin Silliman Professor of Geology and Geophysics, recently received the Maurice K. Ewing Medal for significant original...
With the opening of the 1997-98 academic year, 137 new students were welcomed to the Yale Divinity School on the historic Sterling Divinity Quadrangle. Guy Martin, associate dean of admissions, notes that the new class is unusually diverse, including...
By the time they’ve completed their first week on campus, a large group of Yale College freshmen will know the historic neighborhoods, ethnic restaurants, and opportunities for community service awaiting them in the city that will be their home for the...
