Rabbi David Hartman, a philosopher and social activist, will be the next Terry Lecturer at Yale. He will deliver three addresses on the theme, “Struggling for the Soul of Israel: a Jewish Response to History.” All three talks are free and the public...
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale will host a conference titled “The Broken Middle: Cultural Studies and the Liberal Imagination,” Sept. 25-26, in the Center’s Auditorium, 53 Wall St. In the early 1950s, Lionel Trilling claimed that in the United...
DreamWorks Pictures has donated a 35mm print of the feature film “Amistad” to Yale University’s Film Studies Program and Film Study Center, thanks to executive producer and DreamWorks co-head Walter Parkes (Yale College, Class of 1973). The print will...
Eugene F. Policelli, 62, of South Windsor, Conn., died unexpectedly on Aug. 24. An accomplished scholar and educator, Dr. Policelli was the founding director of Graduate Career Services at Yale University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In the...
Yale University today welcomed 426 of the world’s outstanding future scholars to its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which begins its 152nd year this week. Chosen from a talented pool of more than 4,000 applicants, the newest graduate students at...
Yale University will inaugurate a tradition tomorrow, Aug. 26, when it welcomes 426 new students to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at a formal Matriculation Ceremony. This is the first time such a ceremony has been held at Yale in the 152...
Yale College will welcome the Class of 2002 on Aug. 28, when 1,305 entering freshmen arrive in New Haven for orientation. The freshmen class was selected from among 11,947 applicants. “We are honored to receive such an accomplished group of students...
Yale University officials today said they were pleased that a federal court had dismissed a civil suit filed by four students who contested the University’s requirement that undergraduates live on campus. “We are extremely pleased that the court has...
U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., and Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, will be featured speakers Sept. 18-20 at a special historical conference marking the centennial of the commercial introduction of...
A drug that lowers brain levels of the chemical glutamate – one of the neurotransmitters responsible for relaying messages between neurons – can reverse symptoms of a rat model of schizophrenia without apparent side effects, according to a Yale...