A $1.3 million grant has been given to Yale by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to strengthen the teaching of foreign languages throughout the University. Yale President Richard C. Levin, in thanking the Foundation, commented: “The command of foreign...
A symposium that charts the future and examines the past of the legal status of sexual harassment will be held at Yale University, Friday, Feb. 27-Sunday, March 1. The conference celebrates the 20th anniversary of the publication of Catharine A....
Yale Law School and the Whitney Humanities Center will host a conference, “Postmodernism/Postmodernity: Politics, Law, Culture, Aesthetics,” Friday and Saturday, Feb. 27-28. All sessions will take place at the center, 53 Wall St., and are free and...
Jonathan Gorham, managing partner of Gorham Associates, will be the next speaker in the Yale-New Haven Biotechnology Enterprise Forum series. His talk, titled “University Based Technology Incubators and Venture Funds,” will be presented Tuesday, March 3...
Brett Beemyn, an assistant professor of African American Studies at Western Illinois University, will present a talk on “A Queer Capital: Black and White Lesbigay Life in Washington, D.C., 1920-1960” on Monday, Feb. 23, at 4 p.m. in the Romance...
Donald Hey, director of Wetlands Research Inc. and senior vice president of The Wetlands Initiative Inc., both in Chicago, Ill., will be the next speaker in the semester-long series “The Restoration Agenda: Water!” presented by the School of Forestry and...
John. J. Collins, a leading scholar on the history of Judaism and Jewish thought on the apocalypse, will present a lecture, “Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 4 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. His talk is part of the...
Lawyers get a lot of mean-spirited teasing these days, but they don’t all deserve the bad rap. A group of attorneys, advocates, law students and community organizers from around the nation will gather this week at Yale Law School to discuss how to use...
The following talks at Yale University Feb. 16-22 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Master’s tea will feature the discoverer of the “Titanic” Marine scientist Robert D. Ballard, who discovered the remains of the sunken “Titanic...
The Women’s Campaign School at Yale University is offering a one-day seminar on March 14 titled “The Woman Candidate: Voice-Image-Video.” The session is designed to teach candidates and campaign staff the techniques needed to use voice, image and...
