2007 News Archive: Humanities & Social Sciences

December 
12/12/07Yale School of Architecture Dean Reappointed for Third Five-Year Term
12/11/07Free Yale College Courses Debut Online
12/07/07Two Yale Students Win Marshall Scholarships for Study in the UK
12/06/07Katharine Hepburn's Biographer to Speak at Yale Library on December 11

 

November 
11/29/07Yale Conference to Examine Venezuela Under Hugo Chávez Tomorrow
11/29/07Media Must Pre-register for Symposium on "The Road from Algiers to Baghdad"
11/27/07Leading Architects to Discuss Yale Libraries at Symposium
11/27/07Two Students at Yale University Awarded Rhodes Scholarships
11/26/07Statement on the Death of Pierre-André Salim
11/15/07Yale Brass Quintet to Perform at Hooker Elementary School
11/14/07College Students Unite to Declare Revolution in Campus Dining
11/14/07Yale Symposium to Explore "The Road from Algiers to Baghdad"
11/14/07Poet Richard Wilbur to Give Reading at Yale
11/13/07Yale Economist Wins Highest U.S. Award for Young Researcher
11/08/07In Memoriam: Eugene M. Waith, Professor of English Literature
11/06/07Shareholder Activist Evelyn Davis Creates Fund at Yale Center for Corporate Governance
11/06/07Yale Symposium to Explore Legal Aspects of Reputations on the Internet
11/06/07Documentary on Migrants in Arizona To Be Screened at Yale
11/05/07Gustavo Gutiérrez, Founder of "Liberation Theology," Visits Yale
11/01/07Yale Awards Wilbur Cross Medals to Four Alumni

 

October 
10/31/07Joint University of Tokyo-Yale Program To Promote Japanese Studies in U.S.
10/31/07United in Song for the United Way
10/30/07Yale Library and Microsoft Partner on Ambitious Digital Project
10/24/07New Opera Group at Yale to Stage Inaugural Performance
10/23/07WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy to Speak at Yale on October 24
10/23/07Prize-winning Poet Rita Dove to Speak at Yale
10/22/07Leading Scholars at Yale Ask: "What Was Shakespeare Thinking?"
10/22/07Yale Hosts Student Summit on Enlightened Eating
10/22/07Café Serving Sustainable Fare to Open in New Bass Library
10/22/07Holocaust Video Archive at Yale Marks 25th Anniversary with Conference
10/18/07Frederick Douglass Prize Goes to Book on Origins of Abolitionism in Great Britain
10/17/07Yale To Unveil Newly Renovated and Renamed Library
10/17/07Yale School of Art Exhibits Artists at Work in Real Time
10/17/07"What Makes a Space Sacred?" to Be Pondered at Three-Day Yale Event
10/17/07Rare, Custom-Made Pipe Organ Installed at Yale
10/11/07In Memoriam: Deno Geanakoplos
10/09/07Yale University Launches Leadership Program for India's Parliamentarians
10/09/07Yale Musicians to Perform Songs of Charles Ives at Carnegie Hall
10/08/07Art Exhibition at Yale Postponed Due to Construction
10/05/07University Church in Yale marks 250 years of tradition and reform
10/01/07Alan Dershowitz to Speak at Yale on Anti-Semitism

 

September 
09/27/07Americans Culturally Divided on Global Warming, Gun Control and Other Societal Risks, Yale Study Finds
09/26/07The World Is a Classroom for Yale School of Architecture Students
09/24/07Yale Expert Available to Comment on Visit of Iranian President Ahmadinejad
09/24/07Lectures by Santiago Calatrava and Discussion of Writing on Architecture at Yale
09/20/07Famed Restaurateur Alice Waters Will Speak at Yale
09/18/07Foster + Partners Will Design New Yale School of Management Campus
09/17/07Yale School of Architecture 2007 Building Project Is Dedicated Today
09/14/07Joint Statement by the Government of Peru and Yale University
09/13/07Yale University and Confederation of Indian Industry to Explore India's Future and Women's Global Leadership
09/13/07Remembering a Japanese Scholar
09/12/07New York Times Tech Columnist David Pogue will deliver Poynter Lecture at Yale

 

August 
08/29/07Gloria Steinem to Present Chubb Lecture
08/23/07Yale School of Architecture 2007 Building Project Is Dedicated
08/23/07Conference at Yale to Focus on Israeli Writer Yehuda Amichai
08/08/07Yale School of Architecture Announces Public Programs for the Coming Term
08/07/07Yale Professor Beverly Gage Hosts History Channel Shows
08/06/07Paintings of Constance LaPalombara on Exhibit at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center

 

July 
07/31/07Conference at Yale to Focus on Yehuda Amichai
07/12/07Yale Students Serve Community as Dwight Hall Summer Fellows
07/12/07Yale Concert to be Broadcast on WNPR Radio
07/10/07Yale Center for the Study of Globalization Distinguished Visiting Fellow Named to Gordon Brown's Cabinet

 

June 
06/27/07Distinguished Sociologist Elijah Anderson Joins Yale Faculty
06/26/07Yale Alumni Association Names 2007 Medalists
06/19/07Grant of $10 Million from Hewlett Foundation Will Support The China Law Center of Yale Law School
06/04/07Yale Graduate School Honors Three Outstanding Faculty Mentors
06/01/07Yale Expert Responds to British Academic Union's Boycott of Israel

 

May 
05/31/07Yale Celebrates the Opening of Scensibles in Downtown New Haven
05/28/07Yale Confers 10 Honorary Doctorates at Commencement 2007
05/28/07Yale Degrees Awarded May 28
05/27/07Yale Students Honored for Public Service with the Thompson Prize
05/27/07Yale Faculty Members Honored at 2007 Commencement
05/27/07Yale Seniors Recognized for Intramural Sportsmanship
05/27/072007 Class Day Citations
05/27/07Two Yale Students Win Sportsmanship Awards
05/27/07Five Yale Seniors Win Academic Awards at 2007 Commencement
05/27/07Yale Students Honored for "High Moral Purpose"
05/23/07Three Yale Students Win Goldwater Scholarships
05/21/07Yale Architecture Students Break Ground for 40th First-Year Building Project
05/18/07Yale Celebrates 2007 Commencement
05/17/07Yale School of Music Honors Nation's Teachers
05/14/07Knight Foundation Gives Yale Law School Grant to Create Law and Media Program
05/14/07American Philosophical Society Taps Three Yale Faculty Members
05/11/07International Child Health Expert to Lead Yale World Fellows Program
05/10/07Yale Professor Faults AP Program in Inner Cities
05/09/07Campus and City Unite to Thank Leaders
05/07/07Open Studios at the Yale School of Art
05/03/07Yale and Other Researchers Explore Banking Access for the Poor
05/03/07Yale University President Levin Announces Selection of 2007 Yale World Fellows

 

April 
04/30/07Yale University Strengthens Contemporary Middle East Studies
04/27/07Auschwitz Survivor and Concert Pay Tribute to Power of Music in War
04/27/07Yale Celebrates Chaplain Frederick J. Streets
04/26/07Yale Library Hosts Exhibit and Talk on Globalization
04/25/07100 Students from New Haven's Public Schools to Participate in Math Event at Yale, April 27
04/25/07"Faith and Citizenship" Topic at Yale Divinity School Gathering
04/20/07Yale Dance Theater Students Perform in New York
04/19/07Political Philosopher to Speak about Global Civil Society
04/19/07Access To Knowledge 2 Conference April 27–29 at Yale Law School
04/18/07Rabbi Michael Lerner to Speak at Yale
04/16/07Yale Holds Communiversity Day with an International Twist
04/12/07The Yale Sustainable Food Project Announces Spring Events
04/12/07Maine Woman to Lead Women's Campaign School at Yale
04/12/07Conference on "Progressive Family Values" April 21 at Yale Law School
04/12/07Peace Activist Hsin Tao to Speak at Yale
04/11/07Artist to Exhibit Recent Work at Yale's Slifka Center
04/11/07Italian Cinema for the New Millennium: Cinema as Witness
04/11/07Charlie Rose to Deliver the Gary G. Fryer Memorial Lecture
04/09/07Antiquities and Cultural Property Are Subject of Yale Symposium
04/09/07Conference and Concert of Line-Singing at Yale
04/05/07Mahatma Gandhi’s Grandson to Give Gandhi Lecture at Yale
04/05/07Yale Writers Read

 

March 
03/29/07Symposium on Human Rights in China at Yale Law School, April 12–13
03/29/07Paul Mellon Centennial Celebrations at Yale
03/29/07Ronen Sen to Give Keynote for Yale Symposium on U.S.-India Strategic Relations
03/28/07Yale Celebrates the Opening of Tracy b in Downtown New Haven
03/22/07Former CIA Director to Speak at Yale on Security and Energy
03/21/07Judge Arterton to Deliver Keynote Address at "Legally Female" Conference
03/15/07Yale School of Architecture Announces Spring Eventsr
03/15/07Dava Sobel to Lecture at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center
03/14/07Bagpipe Concert at Yale
03/14/07New Haven Oral History Project at Yale Participates in Holocaust Memorial Event
03/13/07Noted Composer to be Next Chubb Fellow at Yale
03/13/07Former President of Chile to Speak at Yale
03/13/07Symposium at Yale to Focus on the History of Sexuality
03/01/07Senator from Argentina to Speak at Yale on Latin American Economy
03/01/07Ten from Yale Named Soros Fellows
03/01/07Citywide Science Fair Returns to Yale
03/01/07MAJOR GIFT TO FUND NEW HOME FOR HISTORY OF ART CENTER AT YALE UNIVERSITY – Gift is latest in a series of donations from Jeffrey Loria

 

February 
02/28/07Yale Schedules "Spring Break in New Haven"
02/28/07Seven Students from Yale Awarded Gates Scholarhips
02/26/07Frank Bidart Wins Bollingen Prize in Poetry
02/26/07Video Games Live is Coming to Yale University
02/22/07Yale Senior Maya Shankar Named to "All American Team" by USA Today
02/21/07Yale Law School Hosts 10th Anniversary Liman Colloquium; Newark Mayor Cory Booker to Give Keynote
02/21/07Yale University Announces Appointment of James Bundy To Second Term as Dean of Yale School of Drama
02/20/07Yale Appoints Chief Diversity Officer
02/19/07Musician, Writer and Theoretician Charles Rosen to speak at Yale
02/19/07Lecture Series at Yale Focuses on British Abolition of Slavery
02/15/07Lani Guinier and Juan Williams to Debate at Yale
02/15/07Celebrating the Chinese New Year at Yale
02/15/07Yale Teams up with College Summi
02/15/07Yale Celebrates 25 Years with Rabbi James Ponet
02/13/07Yale Concert Band to Perform in the Dark
02/12/07Time Change: Kazakh Ambassador to Speak about the Real Kazakhstan at Yale
02/12/07Yale Law School Hosts 13th Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference
02/12/07Yale Law Women Host "Legally Female: What Does It Mean to Be Ms. JD?" Conference to Launch New Online Community for Women in Law
02/12/07MacArthur Fellow To Speak on Questions of Religious Identity
02/12/07Yale Celebrates W.H. Auden's Centennial
02/08/07Kazakh Ambassador to Speak about the Real Kazakhstan at Yale
02/08/07Yale Student Wins Playwriting Award
02/06/07Yale Faculty Committee Proposes Changes to Promotion and Tenure Policies
02/06/07Sir Nicholas Stern and Experts Will Discuss Economics of Climate Change at Yale
02/05/07Lani Guinier and Juan Williams to Debate at Yale
02/05/07Rescheduled: Yale Expert to Speak on Strategies that Help both Business and the Environment
02/05/07Writer Dave Eggers to Read from His Work at Yale
02/05/07Race, Sexual Orientation and Regional Issues Explored in Performance Piece
02/02/07Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic Submits Merits Brief In Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation Case

 

January 
01/30/07YaleGlobal Hits Surpass 100 Million
01/29/07Yale Law School Hosts Open Standards International Symposium
01/29/07Yale Journalism Initiative Students Eligible for Summer Funding
01/29/07Yale Expert to Speak on Strategies that Help both Business and the Environment
01/25/07Yale Professor Wins Distinguished Achievement Award from Mellon Foundation
01/17/07Distinguished Yale Historian Wins Award for Scholarly Distinction
01/11/07Yale School of Architecture Announces Public Events for January and February
01/09/07Yale Hosts Conference and Screening of Documentaries on Iraq War
01/08/07Renowned Music Director Helmut Rilling Will Lecture and Conduct at Yale