Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, author of the novels “Brooklyn,” “The Master,” and “Nora Webster” and of the short novel “The Testament of Mary,” among other works, will speak on the topic “Imagining Mary” on Thursday, April 7, as part of the Institute of...
Noah Warren ’11, the 2015 Yale Younger Poet, returned to his former residential college on April 7 to read poems from his new collection, “The Destroyer in the Glass” — just published by Yale University Press — and discuss his craft.At a master’s tea in...
Former students, friends, and colleagues gathered in large numbers at the end of February for a farewell party for former Deputy Dean of Yale College and Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon Ph.D. ’78, who recently retired after a career at the...
Citizens of the world must be as fierce in their passion to protect and preserve culture and cultural heritage as extremists are in their desire to destroy it, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told a packed audience at Yale on April 12.“Art, literature...
Of all the accolades she has received as the director-general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova is especially proud of being awarded honorary citizenship of Timbuktu in Mali last summer in recognition of UNESCO’s support in rebuilding mausoleums there that had been...
Donald Trump will have more voter support in the presidential election than most people would have expected if he is the Republican nominee, and Hillary Clinton is likely to be the Democratic presidential nominee, National Public Radio (NPR) political...
Two Yale faculty members — William Nordhaus and Vesla M. Weaver — are among 33 scholars awarded fellowships from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to advance research in social sciences and humanities.The 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellows were selected from...