Yale University will celebrate the memory of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) with a week of special events, January 15–23, dedicated to the theme “Because of His Dream: ‘Yes, We Can.’” The events are free and open to the public. To launch...
Ambassador John D. Negroponte, YC’60 has been appointed the Brady-Johnson Distinguished Senior Research Fellow in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in International Affairs at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale....
Prize-winning author Jeremy Cohen will deliver three Arffa Lectures at Yale University in February on “Myth, History and Prophecy in Christian-Jewish Relations.” Each of the lectures, which are free and open to the public, will take place in Joseph Slifka...
A talk by “NYPD Blue” and “Deadwood” creator David Milch and a performance of bachata and merengue music are among the weekly free and public events that will be offered in a new urban studies course at Yale.Yale art historian Sandy Isenstadt, who teaches...
Poet, librettist and Yale professor J.D. McClatchy has been named President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.A professor of English at Yale and, since 1991, the editor of The Yale Review, McClatchy succeeds another Yale faculty member and...
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150 year anniversary of publication of his Origin of the Species, Yale has created a webportal, Yale Celebrates Darwin. The portal provides links to information about all the...
Governor Deval Patrick will deliver the keynote address at the Annual Black History Month Dinner at a Yale residential college on February 13, 5:30 p.m. Hosted by Pierson College and the Afro-American Cultural Center, the address and dinner are free and...
Robert J. Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University, has been awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2009.The biennial prize honors an internationally renowned economic researcher whose work has significantly...
Yale University Library has received a $5 million dollar gift from Arcadia, a United Kingdom-based grant-making fund established in 2001, to make the library’s important collections of international materials more available through cataloguing and...
President Richard C. Levin and faculty colleagues will participate in a panel discussion Tuesday, Feb. 17, on the global financial crisis.Organized by the Yale College Council and the Yale Student Investment Group, the free public panel, “Understanding...