President Richard C. Levin will be the guest speaker in the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum on Tuesday, Sept. 16.His talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the General Motors Room, 55 Hillhouse Ave....
“Passion Play,” an epic trilogy of plays performed in one evening and the Yale Repertory Theatre’s first production of the 2008-2009 season, will be staged Sept. 19-Oct. 11.The play is by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, whose works “The Clean House”...
A reading of the play “Grenadine,” the winner of the 2008 Yale Drama Series Award, will take place on Monday, Sept. 15, at the New Theater, 1156 Chapel St.The reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. Admission to the event is free, but reservations to ensure...
A memorial service will be held on Friday, Sept. 26, for Herbert Ames Cahoon Jr., a mentor of students at Dwight Hall at Yale and long-time director of Yale Volunteer Services, who died Aug. 18 at his home in Woodbridge. He was 91 years old.The service...
Gaston Leonard Schmir, professor emeritus in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, died on July 2. He was 75 years old.Schmir was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1970 and had battled the disease for 38 years.Schmir was appointed...
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Sept. 20, for Alison Peake Henning, who for nearly three decades served the Saybrook College community as the wife of the college’s master, the late Basil Duke Henning.Henning died on July 2 of cancer at her...
Mary E. “Jane” Greenfield, who served for many years as a conservator for the Yale University Library, died at her home in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, on July 20. She was 91.Greenfield set up the Conservation Studio in Sterling Memorial Library in 1973...
Innovative applications of next-generation DNA sequencing technologies, and the societal impact of the insights gleaned from them, will be the focus of a symposium being held on Friday, Sept. 19.Organized by the graduate and postdoctoral students of the...
This fall the Yale Center for British Art will serve as the first and only venue for a small exhibition about a late 18th-century hoax that fooled several prominent British artists and sheds light on a number of technical and historical issues.“Benjamin...
Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain, will join Yale President Richard C. Levin for a conversation on Friday, Sept. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, corner of Grove and College streets.Blair is expected to reflect on his decade-long tenure...