Author Archives: Akbar Ahmed

This year, Yale’s Office of Undergraduate Productions has begun a new initiative for additional safety for undergraduate performances on campus. The OUP, which provides artistic and technical support to performing arts groups, hired 19 student house managers at the end of September in an effort to increase safety for audience members and perfomers, Rorie Fitzsimmons, »

Now that the director of the Yale Dramatic Association’s spring mainstage production has been chosen, Dramat executive board members say they anticipate that the show will give student participants an experience both professional and educational. Last week, the Yale Dramatic Association announced that it has hired Lauren Keating, a freelance director from New York, to »

Photographs of snow, sunlight and children in dark funeral outfits served as the backdrop to a Tuesday lecture at Green Hall by visiting artist in photography Anna Gaskell ART ’95. Gaskell spoke about depicting movement and narrative in images to an audience of 20 graduate students in photography studying with professor Gregory Crewdson. The artist »

To Romanian artist Mircae Nicolae, the urban relics of his country’s socialist past are no eyesores. Instead, they are cultural and historical artifacts ripe for artistic analysis. On Monday night, an interdisciplinary panel of professors and curators joined Nicolae at the School of Art to discuss his “Romanian Kiosk Company” installation, a work consisting of »

In the world of music, composer and Yale School of Music professor David Lang MUS ’83 is known for a modern, minimalist style that has received acclaim even in the most tradition-steeped of circles — like the Pulitzer Prize Board, which awarded him the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2008. This Thursday, two of Lang’s »

The federal government has announced aplan to tackle the post-Hurricane Irene situation in New Haven County. On Monday, the Small Business Administration opened two Business Recovery Centers, one at North Haven’s Gateway Community College and the other atSoundview Family YMCA in Branford.Tom Nocera, a public affairs officer for the agency’s Office of Disaster Administration, said »

The verdict is in from child development experts at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center: today’s children do not, and will not, learn from their massive media consumption without help from their parents. A crowd of 30 undergraduates, graduate students, and professors gathered at William L. Harkness Hall Friday to hear the center’s Michael Levine and »

The New Haven City Services and Environmental Policy committee on Thursday passed proposals to improve traffic safety around the Sachem and Prospect streets intersection and to install sensor-equipped traffic lights. There is an increased risk of motor-vehicle accidents on Sachem and Prospect streets because they do not intersect at 90-degree angles, City Engineer Richard Miller »