On Sunday afternoon, Yale’s all-female, all-senior a cappella group Whim ‘n Rhythm confirmed the list of junior women chosen to ascend. Below is the list, along with the singing (or other) groups with which they are affiliated. While last year every Whim tap was chosen from the ranks of Singing Group Council member groups, this year »
Five Yale graduate students have created a plan for developing downtown Minneapolis that may win them $50,000. Last Thursday, the Urban Land Institute announced the finalists for its annual ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, which challenged interdisciplinary graduate-level teams to create a long-term plan for downtown Minneapolis that would increase the city’s value. Yale’s entry »
A new endowment in honor of University President Richard Levin and DUS of Directed Studies Jane Levin will fund visiting artists looking to teach or support programs at the School of Music. In an effort to recognize the Levins’ dedication to the arts, the School of Music Board of Visitors has established an endowment supporting »
Tonight, the world of popular culture will be all aflutter and atwitter (a word which here means “inundated with tweets”) with the excitement of the Academy Awards. Movie buffs around the world will gather in front of their televisions to partake in such activities as cheering for their favorite films of 2012, debating the merits »
On Saturday, Chelsea Lane ’14 won the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s 2013 William Waite Concerto Competition and will be playing a harp concerto with the YSO next year. The annual competition draws freshmen, sophomores and juniors every year to audition with 10-minute excerpts from concertos. Three local judges who are not members of the Yale faculty serve »