Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, has announced that four distinguished architects will hold visiting endowed professorships during the Fall Semester 2001. Brigitte Shim will be the William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of...
A diversified summer study program that has attracted 660 students from around the world kicked off its inaugural season at Yale recently. The Exploration Seminar Program - nicknamed Explo - which began on July 1 is a tuition-based program for high...
Yale Univesity and Tsinghua University in Beijing, both traditionally associated with the discipline of comparative literature, will co-sponsor an international symposium on the subject in China next month. Scholars from Europe and Australia will join...
Many Yale University students are spending the summer in New Haven working on community service projects, thanks to funding from the Yale President’s Office and Dwight Hall. Projects include helping the elderly, the indigent and the mentally ill....
Yale University Divinity School will host a lecture by historian Jessie G. Lutz titled “Mission Dilemmas: Bride Price, Minor Marriage, Concubinage, Infanticide and the Education of Women” on July 13 at 5 p.m. in Marquand Chapel, 409 Prospect Street. The...
Documents discovered by Yale faculty member Mary Habeck, and collected into a new book, offer historic evidence of the duplicitous role the former Soviet Union played in the Spanish Civil War. Habeck, a scholar of European and military history, is co-...
Yale Law School has announced the winners of the Knight Fellowships in Law for Journalists for the 2001-2002 academic year. The Fellows will be Adam Freed, KNSD-TV/NBC, San Diego; Scott Hiaasen, The Palm Beach Post; Nadya Labi, Time Magazine; and Maro...
Jonathan Spence, the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and a renowned authority on modern Chinese history, is to be made a Companion of the Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), an honor given by the Queen of England for...
Yale University is proud to be the title sponsor of the Yale Tercentennial New Haven Jazz Festival presented by Citizens Bank for the summer of 2001 as a special way of celebrating the extensive and strong ties between Yale University and its hometown of...
Yale professor of history Paul H. Freedman has been awarded the 2001 Otto Grundler Prize for his book “Images of the Medieval Peasant.” Published by Stanford University Press in 1999, the book provides insights about how peasants in the Middle Ages were...