Five Yale University alumni have been selected by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) to receive the Yale Medal in 2008. This year’s recipients are Edward A. Dennis, Linda Koch Lorimer, Roslyn Milstein Meyer, Don T. Nakanishi and William H. Wright II....
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will join University President Richard C. Levin for a conversation in Woolsey Hall on September 19 at 4:30 p.m. before an audience of Yale faculty, students and staff. They will discuss Mr. Blair’s tenure as prime...
Renowned scholars and authors will discuss the legacy of writer Richard Wright at a centenary celebration taking place September 23, 4 to 6 p.m., at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Facsimile documents and photographs from the Richard Wright...
The bonds that tie a mother to her newborn may be stronger in women who deliver naturally than in those who deliver by cesarean section, according to a study published by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the October issue of Journal of Child...
Yale faculty and distinguished poets Louise Glück and Henri Cole will give a reading from their work on September 29 at 6 p.m. in Saint Anthony Hall, 483 College St.Louise Glück, who has taught at Yale University since 2004, is one of the country’s most...
Works by two Yale-affiliated artists — one a Pulitzer Prize-winning faculty member and the other a staff member at the School of Drama — will be featured in the exhibition “Piecing It Together: Collages by Donald Margulies and Deborah Berman.” The show...
The major political, social and economic changes that have reconfigured the Middle East, and the impact of U.S. policies on the future development of the region, will be explored in a symposium at Yale on September 26 and 27. The major political, social...
Yale University Library and Oxford University Press will mark the 80th anniversary of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) with a symposium featuring four “word-renowned” experts on October 1. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take...
A team led by a Yale University astronomer has discovered the least luminous, most dark matter-filled galaxy known to exist. The galaxy, called Segue 1, is one of about two dozen small satellite galaxies orbiting our own Milky Way galaxy. The ultra-faint...
The 2006 firing of eight U.S. Attorneys by the Bush administration and the politicizing of the Justice Department under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will be the subject of a symposium on October 7, 7:30 p.m., at Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School...