Yale University will host an international conference October 20–21 celebrating Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000).The conference, “Poetics and Politics in Yehuda Amichai’s World,” is free and open to the public. Sessions will take place in the...
This summer, eight Yale College students are dedicating their summer vacation to community service in New Haven as Dwight Hall Summer Interns, working on projects ranging from home hospice care to helping fifth and sixth graders improve their reading...
The Yale Symphony Orchestra’s live recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 will be aired on WNPR’s “Sunday Spotlight” on July 15 at 7 p.m This concert was originally performed and recorded on November 30, 2006. The broadcast will also feature Alma Mahler’s “...
Mark Malloch Brown, the spring 2007 Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization (YCSG), has been appointed by the new Prime Minister of the UK, Gordon Brown, to be the Minister for Africa, Asia and the United Nations....
Elijah Anderson Elijah Anderson, one of the nation’s most influential scholars in the field of urban inequality, will become the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University on July 1.“...
New Haven, Conn — Five Yale University alumni have been selected by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) to receive the Yale Medal in 2007.This year’s recipients are Victor E. Chears, Samuel D. Kushlan, John E. Pepper Jr., Jon E. Steffensen and Vera F....
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has announced that it will donate $10 million to support The China Law Center of Yale Law School for five years.“We are delighted that the Hewlett Foundation has agreed to make this extraordinary commitment to...
The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honored three faculty members as outstanding mentors at this year’s Commencement Convocation on May 27. They were Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, professor and director of graduate studies in psychology; Valerie...
Charles Small, director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, is available to comment on the vote by the United Kingdom’s University and College Union at the UCU conference yesterday to support a boycott of Israeli...
Yale’s Office of University Properties welcomes Scensibles to 1044 Chapel St., in the Chapel Street Historic District of downtown New Haven. Scensibles, a new boutique in Sherman’s Alley, will open its doors in time for the upcoming “First Thursdays”...
