2006 News Archive: Humanities & Social Sciences

December 
12/16/06UN Deputy Secretary-General, Mark Malloch Brown, Accepts Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
12/11/06Generous Gift to Fund Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy
12/04/06Yale's Saybrook College Orchestra to Perform Free Concert and Collect Food

 

November 
11/28/06Yale Art Gallery Celebrates Reopening of Kahn Building
11/28/06Yale Welcomes Métaphore to Downtown New Haven
11/20/06Elie Wiesel to Speak at Yale
11/15/06Symposium at Yale Explores Orson Welles in Europe
11/13/06Yale Welcomes Clare Jones Boutique to Downtown New Haven
11/13/06Israeli Statesman Shimon Peres to Speak at Yale
11/13/06Advocates for Peace in Israel and the Palestinian Territories to Speak at Yale
11/09/06Media Invited to Cover Veteran's Day Concert at Yale
11/03/06Yale Helps Launch 365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks
11/01/06Lecture Series at Yale Explains Music's Charms

 

October 
10/30/06Pulitzer Prize Winner Samantha Power to Speak at The MacMillan Center
10/30/06Booker Prize-winning Author Ian McEwan to Speak at Yale
10/26/06Yale to Host Campus Sustainability Professionals from Around the World
10/26/06UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown to Speak at Yale
10/24/06Writer John McPhee to Give Public Reading at Yale
10/24/06Yale Journalism Initiative to Offer Seminar with New York Times Managing Editor
10/24/06Yale Produces Most 2006 Fulbright Winners
10/24/06Nobel Prize Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei Will Speak at Yale
10/23/06Political Scholar Frances Fox Piven to Speak at Yale
10/23/06Exhibition at Yale Bears Testimony to Americans Who Have Died in Iraq
10/16/06Yale Welcomes Mandala Gallery to Downtown New Haven
10/11/06Anthony Grafton to Deliver 2006 Tanner Lectures at the Whitney Humanities Center
10/10/06Yale to Screen Documentary on Australian Indigenous People
10/09/06Symposium at Yale Explores Role of Religion in Public Affairs
10/09/06Yale Faculty Members Named Fellows of Academy of Arts and Sciences
10/06/06Canadian Statesman to Speak about Antisemitism
10/05/06Yale School of Architecture Takes a New Look at "Pre-Fab" Construction
10/04/06Israeli Filmmaker to Speak at Yale and Screen Her Film
10/03/06Exhibition of Artists at Work at Yale School of Art
10/03/06Conference Will Celebrate Sixty Years of Yale's Great Books Program
10/02/06Yale Tomorrow Campaign Establishes $3 Billion Goal

 

September 
09/29/06The Globalization of Monetary Policy Topic of Yale Lectures
09/28/06$50 Million Gift to Advance Yale's China Collaborations
09/28/06Yale University Professor Named Poet Laureate of Connecticut
09/28/06Celebrating Ben Franklin at Yale
09/26/06Arthur Green to Speak at Yale
09/26/06Symposium Sifts through Yale Coin Collection for Clues to Roman Empire in Asia
09/25/06Yale Endowment Earns 22.9% In The Past Year
09/25/06Wilbur Cross Medals Awarded to Outstanding Alumni
09/22/06Yale Faculty Writers Will Read from Recent Works
09/22/06Roosevelt Institution and Yale University to Host Conference on Equal Access to Higher Education
09/22/06Conference at Yale Honors Hannah Arendt at 100
09/21/06New Republic Editor-at-Large Peter Beinart to Discuss the War on Terror
09/20/06Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale Announces Winner of Douglass Book Prize
09/20/06Pianist Robert Blocker and the Biava Quartet Celebrate Mozart at 250
09/19/06Yale University Creates Center to Study Antisemitism
09/19/06Yale Environmentalist Wins MacArthur "Genius" Grant
09/19/06Yale to Make Select Courses Available on the Internet
09/18/06Life and Career of R.W.B. Lewis Honored with Writing Center Directorship
09/18/06Yale Welcomes Manchester Grill to Downtown New Haven
09/18/06Yale Professor to Participate in U.S.–Arab Dialogue
09/12/06Composer Mitch Leigh Endows Chair in Jazz at Yale
09/12/06Yale Divinity School Hosts Conference on Long-Term Solutions to End Poverty
09/11/06International Conference on European-Atlantic Integrations and Southeastern Europe
09/08/06Symposium at Yale Explores the Wild Side of the Wild West
09/08/06Poet Henri Cole to Give Public Reading at Yale
09/07/06Yale to Honor Ben Franklin at Constitution Day Celebration
09/07/06USA Today Reporter Named Chubb Fellow at Yale
09/06/06Yale School of Management Launches New MBA Curriculum

 

August 
08/31/06Yale College Welcomes Class of 2010
08/23/06Renegade Architectural Group "Team 10" Honored at Yale
08/21/06 Paul Kennedy to Lecture on Rise and Fall of British Battleship "Dreadnought"
08/16/06 Symposium on Religion vs. Science at Yale
08/16/06 Yale Art Museums Host Open House/Block Party
08/14/06 Liev Schreiber Live at Yale
08/01/06 President's Public Service Fellows
08/01/06 Yale Law School Co-sponsors International Conference on Justice

 

July 
07/21/06 Renovated Louis Kahn Building, Opening in December 2006
07/21/06 Finalists Announced for the 2006 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
07/20/06 Poet and Scholar Peter Cole Appointed Franke Visiting Fellow at Yale
07/13/06 Association of Yale Alumni Names Yale Medalists
07/07/06 Yale School of Architecture Announces Exhibitions for 2006–07

 

June 
06/26/06 Yale Offers International Studies Training to Educators
06/12/06 Yale School of Management Launches Yale Center for Corporate Governance and Performance with Historic Gift; Corporate Governance Expert Ira M. Millstein Appointed Director
06/02/06 Yale and Local Middle School Collaborate in Playwriting Program

 

May 
05/24/06 Yale Senior Wins Churchill Foundation Scholarship
05/23/06 Four Yale Students Honored for Public Service with the Thompson Prize
05/23/06 Teaching Prizes Awarded at Yale College Class Day
05/23/06 Top Academic Prizes Awarded to Yale Seniors
05/23/06 Five Yale Students Win Sportsmanship Awards
05/23/06 Yale Confers Eight Honorary Doctorates at Commencement 2006
05/23/06 Yale Degrees Awarded May 22
05/23/06 Yale Seniors Recognized for Intramural Sportsmanship
05/23/06 Yale Seniors Honored for Moral Character
05/23/06 Yale Shuttle Bus Powered by Cooking Oil
05/12/06 Yale University to Hold 305th Commencement May 21, 22
05/11/06 Service for William Sloane Coffin to be Held at Yale
05/10/06 Yale Welcomes Villarina's to Downtown New Haven :: Chapel-College District's Spring Wine Tasting
05/04/06 President Richard C. Levin honored with the Community Dialogue Project's Leadership Award
05/03/06 Exhibition in Homage to Rachel Carson at Yale's Beinecke Library
05/01/06 Robert Blocker to Return to Yale to Lead School of Music
05/01/06 President Levin Announces Selection of 2006 Yale World Fellows

 

April 
04/27/06 Yale Center for International and Area Studies Receives New Name
04/27/06 Students Help Yale to Go Green
04/27/06 Yale Professor Chosen as Carnegie Scholar
04/26/06 Book Bank Hosts Open House
04/25/06 Yale School of Art Holds "Open Studios" of Student Work
04/25/06 Yale Students Win Morris Udall Scholarships
04/20/06 Dr. Ben Carson to Speak at Yale-Dixwell Center
04/17/06 Yale Hosts Panel Related to President Hu's Visit
04/13/06 Celebrated Violinists Join Yale School of Music Faculty
04/12/06 Poet W.S. Merwin to Speak at Yale
04/12/06 Wall Street Journal Columnist to Speak at Yale
04/12/06 National Resources Defense Council Leader to Speak at Yale
04/12/06 BreadStar Bakery and Café Opens Its Doors in Downtown New Haven
04/11/06 Reformer Irshad Manji to Speak at Yale
04/10/06 Elm and Ivy: A Celebration of New Haven and Yale University Leaders
04/10/06 Yale Hosts Event Commemorating New Haven's Holocaust Memorial
04/10/06 Performances of Balinese Theater, Dance and Music at Yale
04/06/06 Yale Law School to Host Conference on Access to Knowledge
04/03/06Mellon Foundation Grants Support to Catalog Yale's Historical Sound Recordings
04/03/06Writers Nathan Glazer and Jim Sleeper To Hold Public Discussion on Race

 

March 
03/29/06Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School Expands
03/29/06Yale Library Demonstrates the Craft of Preservation
03/29/06Three Yale Students Win Goldwater Scholarships
03/22/06Announcing the 2nd Annual Relay For Life at Yale University
03/20/06John Hope Franklin to Speak at Yale
03/20/06Environmentalist to Speak at Yale New Haven, Conn.
03/20/06Fortune Magazine Editor to Discuss Power and Leadership at Yale
03/17/06Madeleine Albright to Speak at Yale
03/13/06Survivor of the Munich Olympic Massacre to Speak at Yale
03/13/06Yale Opens Its Doors to Annual Science Fair
03/13/06Symposium on City Waterfronts Will Be Held at Yale School of Architecture
03/09/06Yale Student Wins Luce Foundation Scholarship
03/09/06Historian John Lukacs Gives the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture
03/07/06Afghani Activist for Women's Rights Will Speak at Yale
03/03/06Yale School of Music Receives Funding for Education and Outreach Programs

 

February 
02/28/06Critic, Artist and Curator Robert Storr Named Dean of the Yale School of Art
02/27/06Yale Center for Parliamentary History Presents Records to British Government
02/24/06Scholar of New England Native American History to Speak at Yale
02/23/06Yale Professor Wins Award from Mellon Foundation
02/20/06Yale Students Disperse to All Corners of the Earth for Spring Break
02/20/06National Endowment for the Humanities Funds Yale Effort to Preserve Iraqi Journals
02/15/06Yale Acts to Divest in Response to Darfur Genocide
02/15/06TIME London Bureau Chief to Deliver Poynter Lecture at Yale on Monday
02/15/06Yale Law Journal to Host Conference on Executive Power
02/15/06Earth Institute Director to Speak at Yale
02/14/06Yale to Offer "Green" Building Design and Development Program
02/09/06Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper Is Subject of Yale School of Architecture Exhibit
02/06/06Farmington Canal Association to Present Awards at Yale
02/02/06Yale Announces Summer Program in Singapore
02/01/06Yale Professor Named a Young Global Leader
02/01/06Yale University Chaplain Honored as ‘Trail Blazer'

 

January 
01/31/06State of the Union Advisory for Education Writers
01/27/06Yale Takes Stock of Its Foreign Language Assets
01/25/06Yale Launches Journalism Initiative
01/25/06Delegation from Yale to Attend World Economic Forum in Davos
01/24/06Awards Given to Yale and Architects for Support of Historic Farmington Canal Trail
01/23/06Yale Welcomes NorthEast Alliance Federal Credit Union To the Audubon Arts & Retail District
01/23/06Yale to Announce Journalism Initiative
01/18/06Yale Offers Seminar Studying Anti-Semitism
01/17/06Yale Appoints Three New Trustees
01/09/06Yale School of Architecture Announces Spring Term Events