Nora Wessel
Nora Wessel
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A Chance to move | Thinking on your toes
Most Yalies have never studied the art of movement. But as dancers begin to vie for intellectual recognition on campus, analyzing Tharp will be as respected as scrutinizing Milton.
Dean Search | For Urry, another ceiling to crack
Before 2001, no woman had ever held tenure in the Physics Department, much less served as the department’s chair. No one, that is, until Meg Urry.
For Blair, open arms and fanfare
Thousands of students, faculty members and New Haven residents, including Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and Yale College Dean Peter Salovey, filed into Woolsey Hall to the sound of Yale’s alma mater on Woolsey’s majestic organ. By the time the doors opened, some had been patiently waiting in line for at least two hours.
A first day of faith, frenzy
By the time Tony Blair appeared before a packed Woolsey Hall for a conversation with University President Richard Levin and others on Friday, he had already been interviewed on several television networks and taught his first class.
Blair kicks off Yale stint with talk at Woolsey
Former British P.M. answers questions about Iraq, global warming and, of course, the Stones vs. the Beatles
Yale’s newest professor had a rather action-packed first day of school. By the time Tony Blair appeared before a packed Woolsey Hall for a conversation with University President Richard Levin and others, he had already been interviewed on several television networks and taught his first class. “Globalization is a force that pushes people together,” he said. “If religion becomes a force that pulls people apart, then it becomes a threat to the way the 21st century works.”
Two paintings, infinite buzz
Yesterday, the exhibit that took the summer by storm and left its viewers starry-eyed — literally — came to a close after three months. One thing is clear: Van Gogh has left his mark on the Elm City.
Stern pick incites debate
Could the choice of a traditional architect to build Yale’s two new residential colleges actually betray the University’s tradition?
Bayer site to welcome overflow art
West Haven will ‘not be just a science campus’ as galleries prepare to transfer collections
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Next to the West Campus’ gleaming, brick-and-steel laboratory buildings lies an unadorned warehouse, clad in metal paneling and weathered from many a New England winter. To Yale’s scientists, those gleaming, state-of-the-art research buildings seem like the complex’s biggest prize. But art aficionados may argue otherwise. To them, that distinction belongs to the warehouses.
Yale harmonizes music and literacy in local schools
John C. Daniels is just one of over 20 local schools reaping the benefits of the Class of ’57 Music Education Project, officially launched last fall through a $5 million donation from the class of 1957 and the School of Music.
With West campus, Yale excuses form for function
Although corporate site would be out of place amid Yale’s Gothic buildings, administrators tout ‘first-rate’ facilities
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Wild turkeys are a rarity on Yale’s campus in New Haven, but only seven miles away, a flock of dozens roams free across the rolling hills of the newly acquired West Campus.