The art of ketubah — the marriage contract Jewish law requires a groom to provide for his bride on their wedding day — is featured in a new exhibition at Sterling Memorial Library.The ketubah is intended to protect the woman by establishing the man’s...
The Graduate Programs at Yale Law School will hold its Aspiring Scholars Symposium on Friday and Saturday, April 17 and 18.The symposium is an annual spring event featuring papers by current Yale Law School graduate students that are critiqued by members...
An archive tracing the life and work of a woman who was a dancer, set designer and the wife of film star Rudolph Valentino before becoming a renowned Egyptologist was recently donated to the Yale Egyptological Institute in Egypt, part of the Department of...
Over 200 alumni and students participated in the first-ever Yale Latino Alumni Reunion, held on campus April 3-5.The reunion centered on the theme “Uniting Yale Latinos: From Nuestra Casa to Contributions Around the World.” It brought together Latino...
At the Yale Center for British Art, when an exhibition draws to a close, those who have been involved in its creation — from those on the curatorial staff to those who handled the myriad administrative tasks associated with the show, those who planned and...
Yale will welcome a new director of labor relations in May, Andrea Terrillion of Cornell University, announced Michael A. Peel, vice president for human resources and administration.In her new post, Terrillion will be the University’s chief labor...
Liu Yandong addressed China-U.S. relations in her talk, “Deepening People-to-People Exchanges and Cultural Cooperation,” at the British Art Center today.Liu Yandong addressed China-U.S. relations in her talk, “Deepening People-to-People Exchanges and...
A special advance screening of the Disney film, Earth, and a documentary by Madonna that chronicles the suffering of children in Malawi orphaned by AIDS will headline a Yale film festival intended to raise awareness of global environmental issues. “Film...
In just a year’s time, the University has “saved” 810 trees, the equivalent of 10 swimming pools’ worth of water and more than 717,000 pounds (or 25 garbage trucks full) of solid waste, all by switching campus-wide to the use of 30% recycled-content paper...
Ian Shapiro has been reappointed as the Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. Shapiro, who is also the Sterling Professor of Political Science, will begin his new five-year term on...