Yale University has named architect Cesar Pelli to design a new engineering building that will be built near the corner of Prospect and Trumbull streets. Major funding for the building comes from John Malone (Yale College Class of 1963), whose recent $...
Clipping Cupid’s wings somewhat, Yale professor Nancy Cott presents a less than sentimental view of marriage in her new book, “Public Vows.” Indeed, in her groundbreaking study of marriage, American style, Cott, the Stanley Woodward Professor of History...
The seventh annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference-the nation’s largest student-run public interest law conference-will take place February 16-18, at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. Rebellious Lawyering brings together practitioners, law students and...
Yale Repertory Theatre will celebrate Yale University’s 300th birthday by presenting a 300-year-old comic masterpiece, William Congreve’s “The Way of the World,” directed by Stan Wojewodski, Jr., artistic director and dean of the Yale Drama School....
Yale University has chosen internationally renowned architects David M. Childs and Richard Meier to design two projects for its expanding arts area complex. Renovations to 180 York Street, a building designed by Paul Rudolph for the Art and Architecture...
Paul Lawrence, former director of media production and training services at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, was named director of the Center for Media Initiatives (CMI) at Yale University, effective December 1, 2000. Among other projects,...
Several noted Irish directors and actors will participate in a symposium on issues in contemporary Irish film, February 1-4, in the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, 53 Wall St. The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will include panels,...
Acclaimed writer and advocate for the Haitian-American community Edwidge Danticat will visit the Yale campus and give a reading from her works on February 6 and 7. Born in Port au Prince, Haiti, in 1969, Danticat came to the United States in 1981. Two...
An exhibition of paintings by David Gelernter is on view at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall Street, now through March 23. The art, primarily a mix of acrylic and pastel or watercolor and pastel, occasionally employs liquid iron, metal...
The Yale University Art Gallery has received an ownership claim regarding an 1864 painting by Gustave Courbet on loan to the Art Gallery since 1981. The claim was made by the son of the late Josephine Weinmann, a Jewish citizen who left Germany before...