As a teenager in the army learning the French horn, Willie Ruff ’53M, ’54 M.M. was taught that “music don’t mean a thing unless it tells a story.” Though he will retire this May after 46 years on the School of Music faculty, the 85-year-old Ruff says he...
Blackstone Group chairman and CEO Stephen Schwarzman will accept the “Legend in Leadership Award” of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute at a ceremony to be held tomorrow, June 14, at the New York Stock Exchange headquarters.The award will be...
The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders and International Security Studies at Yale will host a two–day conference, April 29–30, in which scholars representing a range of disciplines will discuss the impact the quest for petroleum...
Former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León will present a free, public lecture at Yale University on April 6 at 5 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave., as the 2004–05 Downey Fellow. Zedillo, an alumnus of the Yale Graduate...
From the monster under the bed to the bullying upperclassman, a new book by Steven Marans of the Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center provides coping strategies for parents on these and other fears children and adolescents face. Marans will...
Yale University Properties is pleased to announce the official grand opening of Basta Trattoria on January 11 at 11 a.m. at 1006 Chapel St. New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Director of Yale’s Office of New Haven and...
A documentary produced by Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and edited by Yale archivist Joanne Rudof had a premiere screening in Czestochowa, Poland, as part of a ground-breaking exhibition. In the film, seven...
Eric Schlosser, author of the best-selling exposé of the fast-food industry “Fast Food Nation,” will speak at Yale on Sunday, April 25, at 2 p.m. Schlosser will be discussing his new book “Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American...
