The Modern Language Association has awarded the fifth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Slavic Literary Studies to Vladimir E. Alexandrov, professor and chair of the Slavic Languages and Literatures department at Yale, for his book “Limits to...
Stephen R. Anderson, professor of linguistics and psychology at Yale and the chair of the undergraduate major in cognitive science, was recently elected the 83rd president of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).Anderson will serve as vice-president/...
Yale University Properties celebrates the opening of Ciao Bella Gelato Co., a premier producer of high-end handmade ice cream and sorbet.The press is invited to the ribbon-cutting ceremony on December 6 at 2 p.m. in front of Ciao Bella at 82 Wall St. “...
Leon Plantinga On December 9 and 10, the Yale Department of Music will host a two-day conference honoring long-time professors Leon Plantinga and Robert Morgan on the occasion of their retirements.The conference, which will take place all day...
Yale University announced today that Yale and China’s flagship university, Peking University, are launching a distinctive joint undergraduate program where Yale College students and honor students at Peking University will study and live together on the...
This year Yale College seniors won three Rhodes and five Marshall Scholarships, two of the most coveted academic awards for study in Britain.Nathan Herring, Jessica E. Leight and Chelsea E. Purvis were the winners of Rhodes Scholarships. Rachel Denison,...
Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition will host a talk on December 8 examining the claim by right-wing evangelicals of today that their political activism mirrors that of the abolitionist movement of the 19th...
Sir John Major, former prime minister of the United Kingdom Sir John Major, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, and Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former President of Mexico, will...
Three distinguished members of the Yale community are among 11 Americans who will be awarded 2005 National Humanities Medals in a White House ceremony today. They are John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History and Political Science at...
Author and comedian Al Franken will broadcast his national radio program from Yale University’s Woolsey Hall on Monday, November 14 from 12-3 p.m. The public is welcome to attend the free live broadcast. Woolsey Hall, at the corner of College and Grove...