“The Prodigal Son Returns: The Art of Soichi Watanabe” will be on display at the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) Jan. 26-March 26.A resident of Koshigaya City, Saitama, Japan, Watanabe is the 2008-2009 artist-in-residence at the Overseas Ministries Study...
Tom Williams, a defensive assistant for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars who also has 11 seasons of college coaching experience, has been named the Joel E. Smilow ‘54 Head Coach of Football at Yale.Williams will be the 33rd coach in the illustrious history...
Racism in the healthcare system is the subject of a documentary film and workshop being presented on Thursday, Jan. 22, by the School of Medicine and URU, The Right To Be Inc.The 55-minute film, titled “The Deadliest Disease in America,” will be screened...
Capping a successful first semester of teaching at Yale, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced in December that his London-based non-profit foundation would open a permanent office on campus and expand its ongoing partnership with the Yale...
Henry Ashby Turner, the Charles J. Stille Professor Emeritus of History, died at Yale-New Haven Hospital on Dec. 17 from complications of melanoma.A leading scholar of modern German history, Turner was the author of several books and many articles, among...
In December, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that he would expand the Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TBFF) and the Yale Initiative on Faith and Globalization over the next two years. (See related story)Future plans include:• Basing the U....
“Tea Culture of Japan: Chanoyu Past and Present,” one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Japanese tea culture ever presented by an American museum, opens at the Yale University Art Gallery on Tuesday, Jan. 20.Featuring approximately 100 objects,...
Yale senior Rachel Bayefsky-Anand, an ethics, politics and economics major from Canada, has become the second Yale recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford next year.The other Yale 2008 Rhodes winner, Jarrad M. Aguirre, was announced by the...
The elixir of life, the philosopher’s stone, lead into gold — these are some of the alchemical images found in literature from the medieval period through J.K. Rawling’s Harry Potter series.An exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library...
An exhibition featuring the work of Japanese artist Soichi Watanabe will be on display at Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 409 Prospect Street, from January 26 to March 26, 2009. Titled “The Prodigal Son Returns: The Art of Soichi Watanabe,” the exhibition...