A conference titled “The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan’s Scattered Treasures” will be held at Yale, July 10-12, marking the culmination of three years of research by an international team of archaeologists, historians, art historians and religious...
Yale University’s School of Art will host a one-woman exhibition of works by Carol Schlosberg, former student and faculty member who was murdered in Mexico on March 29. The show will run from Monday, June 15, through Saturday, June 27, in the Art and...
A grant of $220,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow Yale to expand its Librarian-in-Residence program, which brings talented minority librarians to New Haven for a two-year term. Thanks to the new funding just announced by the Mellon...
His All Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree at Yale University’s 297th Commencement on May 25. His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is the 270th successor to the...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale has acquired the archive of Witold Gombrowicz, one of the great names of 20th century European modernism. Gombrowicz was born in Maloszyce, Poland, in 1904 and studied philosophy and law at the...
This year may be a bonanza for women interested in running for office, according to leading political analysts, among them the co-chairs of The Women’s Campaign School at Yale – WCS. George Dean, prominent political activist in the Republican Party,...
“Interim Sites,” an urban art initiative created by Yale University graduate students, will open May 16 at 1156 Chapel St., former home of the Jewish Community Center – JCC – and future home of the Yale School of Art. The opening coincides with a city-...
The new home of the Yale School of Art at 1156 Chapel St. will be named Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall, in honor of the 1961 graduate of Yale College whose generous gift to the University is supporting expansion and renovation of the existing building....
Myres Smith McDougal, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School and longtime resident of New Haven, died on Thursday, May 7, after a long illness. A renowned authority on international law, Professor McDougal founded, along with political...
Twenty-one Yale students will study in East Asia this coming summer and next year, thanks to grants from the Richard U. Light Foundation of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The grants have been awarded annually since 1996 to encourage the study of Chinese, Korean...