Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (ISP) has received an award of more than $500,000 from Microsoft Corp., a leading software and information services company. The ISP will use the funds over a period of three years for a variety of...
Yale junior Sarah Stillman was the first–place winner of the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics 2005 Essay Contest. Winning the $5,000 prize for her essay about sweatshop workers is the most recent achievement of a young woman who had a book for teenage girls...
Yale College sophomore Richard Ludlow was recently selected as one of 20 undergraduates from the United States and Canada to be honored as a Goldman Sachs Global Leader. Ludlow joins 100 new Global Leaders worldwide being honored for academic excellence...
The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust and the Sol Goldman Charitable Trust have announced a grant of $5 million to Yale Law School to endow the deanship of the School. The charitable trusts are named for the late New York City philanthropists Sol Goldman...
Four Yale students are among 13 winners of the 2005 Saxe Prize, awarded annually by the J.W. Saxe Memorial Fund of Washington, D.C. to encourage public service among college and university students. They will each receive $1,500 to assist them in...
Yale University will hold the second annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education on April 1 and 2 in the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. Titled “A View from the Disciplines: Diversity and Inclusion in Curricula, Pedagogy and...
Retired Yale University French Professor Jacques Guicharnaud, 80, died at home in New Haven on March 5. Guicharnaud was the Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French. He taught at Yale from 1950 until his retirement in 1997, with the exception of a brief...
Distinguished Yale professor and celebrated literary critic Harold Bloom will receive the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2005 in Odense, Denmark, on April 2 in an event to launch a year–long 200th birthday celebration for the city’s most famous native son...
Michael Wilbon, an award–winning columnist for The Washington Post and co–host of ESPN’s daily news/commentary show “Pardon the Interruption,” will come to Yale on Wednesday, February 23, as the next Poynter Fellow in Journalism. Wilbon will present the...
The parliamentary governments that developed in Western Europe and North America during the 17th and 18th centuries are the subject of an international conference at Yale, April 7–9. The three–day conference will span three locations, and the sessions...