Battell Chapel will be the setting for an unusual presentation of poetry and whirling dervishes on Sunday, Oct. 26, at 4 p.m.The internationally recognized sacred Whirling Ceremony, known as SEMA, will be preceded by a reading from the poetry of...
Yale University Library has received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a unique research project that will attempt to improve how users can search for and discover digital resources.Digital collections may...
Dr. George E. Palade, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who founded the Section of Cell Biology at the Yale School of Medicine, died on Oct. 8 at his home in Del Mar, California. He was 96 years old.“Dr. Palade was a giant in 20th century scientific...
Many photographers have been intrigued by the distortions that can result when the camera “captures” the real world. This phenomenon is explored in “First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography,” an exhibition on view through Jan. 4 at the Yale...
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale will celebrate the lifestyles and traditions of native peoples in a three-day event focusing on Inuit culture.The Indigenous Peoples Weekend will take place Friday-...
The second in a two-part series of Dean’s Workshops focused on the School of Medicine’s Keck Biotechnology Resource Laboratory will take place on Friday, Oct. 17, at 1:30 p.m. in The Anlyan Center auditorium, 300 Cedar St. The workshop, titled “Proteomics...
Alumni of the Five Year B.A., Yale’s pioneering international program and a precursor to many of its later foreign study offerings, met in New Haven Oct. 4-5 — 40 years after their participation. The brainchild of the late Kingman Brewster, former Yale...
The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale has unveiled a next-generation digital online text collection of the works of its namesake, the 18th-century preacher and thinker often identified as America’s premier theologian.For three years, the Works of Jonathan...
Krista Tippett, creator and host of public radio’s “Speaking of Faith” program, will be among the noted scholars and theogians who will give free public lectures during the Yale Divinity School’s Convocation and Reunions 2008 program, to be held Monday-...
Yale alumnus Michael J. Rooks joined the Yale Institute of Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering (YINQE) on Oct. 1 as associate director for research facilities.In his new post, Rooks will be responsible for working with Yale faculty in the planning,...