Melina Shannon-DiPietro, who has been co-director of the Yale Sustainable Project for the last five years, will assume full responsibilities as director on Oct. 1. Shannon-DiPietro succeeds Josh Viertel, founder and co-director of the Sustainable Food...
In the spirit of an old-time barn raising, members of the Yale and New Haven community pitched in to help raise a pavilion at the Yale Farm on Sept. 20. The structure still awaits a roof, but that didn’t stop participants from holding a dance there that...
Scenes of everyday life and of spiritual transformation are featured in the paintings in the exhibition “The Story of Our Journey: The Art of John Swanson,” on exhibit Oct. 1-Dec. 12 at the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM).The child of a Mexican mother and...
The power of cinema to illuminate the daily lives of people living in different cultures around the world will be demonstrated in a film series being presented at Yale Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 2-5.“Global Lens 2008: Promoting Cross-Cultural Understanding...
“The Olympics in East Asia” will be the theme of a campus conference on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3 and 4.The conference, subtitled “Nationalism, Regionalism and Globalism on the Center Stage of World Sports,” is sponsored by the Council on East Asian...
“The Scientific Buddha: Past, Present, Future” is the theme of this year’s Dwight H. Terry Lectures, which will be presented by Donald S. Lopez, the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of...
The ever-evolving world of the New York art market will be explored at a symposium being hosted on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3 and 4, by the Yale University Art Gallery.Titled “Postwar Art and the New York Contemporary Art Market,” the symposium will...
Jacquelyn Taylor, assistant professor at Yale School of Nursing, was one of 15 junior faculty in the nation to receive an inaugural Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar award.The goal of the new program is to develop the next generation of...
Peter P. Wegener, the Harold Hodgkinson Professor Emeritus and former chair of the Department of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale, died on Sept. 13 at the age of 91.Wegener played a role in the development of hypersonic wind tunnels and gas lasers...
Stephen L. Clark, director of Parents Giving in the Office of Development, died Sept. 11, at his home in Seymour, Connecticut, at the age of 54.M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. A musicologist, he was an authority on C.P.E. Bach, editing and...