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Yale Opens Ultra-Green Kroon Hall

April 8, 2009

Yale University has completed construction of a new ultra-green building—designed to use 50 percent less energy than a comparably sized modern building—for...

Memoir Writer To Speak at Yale About Race and Identity

April 8, 2009

Author Bliss Broyard will read from and discuss her memoir, “One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets,” on April 16 at 8 p.m. in...

Yale To Give Free Tours of Two Music Facilities on April 18

April 7, 2009

Yale University will open two buildings central to its music programs, Gustave Stoeckel Hall and Albert Arnold Sprague Memorial Hall, to the public on April...

Edward Jones, Author of "The Known World," To Read from His Work at Yale

April 7, 2009

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones will give a public reading from his work at Yale on April 16, at 7 p.m.

First African Woman President to Speak at Yale

April 7, 2009

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia will speak at Yale as a Chubb Fellow on April 23 at 4 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets.

Former President of Brazil to Speak at Yale

April 6, 2009

Fernando Henrique Cardoso, two-term president of Brazil, will speak at Yale University as a Chubb Fellow, a Downey Fellow and a visiting fellow of the Yale...

Avant-Garde Chinese Author Can Xue To Visit Yale

April 6, 2009

The Yale Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) will host two public events with acclaimed Chinese novelist, critic and short-story writer Can Xue later this month:...

Law School Clinic Has Been a Champion On Behalf of Those Being Held Without Charge

April 3, 2009

The Yale Law School's ties to Guantánamo date back to the early 1990s, when a group of Yale faculty members and students sued the U.S. government to...

Yale Law School Students Fighting for Justice for Guantánamo Detainees

April 3, 2009

When he was first given an opportunity to see evidence against his client, Yale law student Joseph Pace '10 thought he might find what lawyers normally...

Former Director Returns to Yale Center for British Art To Give Paul Mellon Lecture

April 1, 2009

The 2009 Paul Mellon Lecture series, titled “Pen and Pencil: Writing and Painting in England, 1750–1850,” will be presented April 14–28, by Duncan Robinson,...