Isidore Dyen, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Yale who is known for his seminal work on Austronesian languages and Proto-Austronesian (the ancestral language of languages from Indonesia to Madagascar and across the Pacific Ocean), died on Dec. 14....
A youth talent show and other activities designed entirely by and for youths will be part of the mix this year, when the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History hosts its 13th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. The two-day program —...
NO BOUNDARIES: A Series of Global Performances presented by the Yale Repertory Theatre and the World Performance Project at Yale, continues its 2008-2009 season with “the break/s: a mixtape for stage,” a multimedia performance exploring the hip-hop...
The Yale School of Architecture will gather an international roster of scholars, critics and architects under the roof of the newly renovated Paul Rudolph Hall Friday-Saturday, Jan. 23-24, to take a fresh look at the life and legacy of its legendary...
The names of some Nobel Prize-winning physicists are well known, even outside the scientific community — such as Einstein, whose name has became synonymous with genius; Heisenberg, who had a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics named after him; or...
An exhibition highlighting a unique collection of Arabic cinema posters and another that explores the relationship between text and image in art and literature are on view in Sterling Memorial Library.“Arabic Cinema Posters,” on display in the Memorabilia...
“The Prodigal Son Returns: The Art of Soichi Watanabe” will be on display at the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) Jan. 26-March 26.A resident of Koshigaya City, Saitama, Japan, Watanabe is the 2008-2009 artist-in-residence at the Overseas Ministries Study...
Tom Williams, a defensive assistant for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars who also has 11 seasons of college coaching experience, has been named the Joel E. Smilow ‘54 Head Coach of Football at Yale.Williams will be the 33rd coach in the illustrious history...
Racism in the healthcare system is the subject of a documentary film and workshop being presented on Thursday, Jan. 22, by the School of Medicine and URU, The Right To Be Inc.The 55-minute film, titled “The Deadliest Disease in America,” will be screened...
Capping a successful first semester of teaching at Yale, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced in December that his London-based non-profit foundation would open a permanent office on campus and expand its ongoing partnership with the Yale...