Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
A committee voted to grant tenure to four professors and to promote a fifth to full professor Thursday afternoon. Eric Sargis of anthropology, Udo Schwarz of mechanical engineering, Brian Scassellati of computer science and Ruth Blake of geology and geophysics were all granted tenure at a meeting of the Board of Permanent Officers, composed of full professors in Yale...
Eliane Karp-Toledo, the former Peruvian first lady, spoke last night at the Yale Political Union. Before her talk, she sat down with staff reporter Paul Needham to discuss Peru’s lawsuit against Yale over the Inca artifacts at the Peabody Museum, as well as her future and that of her husband, former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo. Q: Why are you here? What do...
“If you start odd,” Richard Fortey said, “you might grow odder.” That is, if you work behind the scenes at a natural history museum. At the Peabody Museum on Thursday, Fortey, the author of “Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of a Natural History Museum,” talked to an audience of about 50 professors, New Haven residents and graduate students on what it is...
Yale and Peru inched closer to court this summer, as a nearly century-old controversy over Inca artifacts grew even more complex in a few short months. Just under a year ago, on Sept. 14, 2007, the University and the government of Peru claimed to have found consensus regarding the rightful ownership of artifacts excavated from Machu Picchu in the early 20th century by...
Few careers include both research on lemurs in Africa and successful negotiation of environmental reform. But Alison Richard — one-time University provost and former Director of the Yale Peabody Museum — has somehow managed all this and more. The Peabody Museum presented Richard with the Addison Amery Verrill Medal for achievement on Wednesday, its highest honor for...
In a distinct change in position, Peruvian officials announced Wednesday that they are now seeking the prompt return of all the Inca artifacts currently housed at Yale. For over six months, both Yale and Peruvian government representatives have maintained that any final agreement between the parties would closely resemble a memorandum of understanding signed in New Haven...
It turns out that there is no one way to count Inca artifacts. The Peruvian government announced Sunday that an inventory it conducted of Machu Picchu objects currently housed at Yale found some 40,000 pieces — about 10 times the number Yale had previously announced. But Yale officials said the discrepancy is a matter of mere arithmetic and not a sign of a significant...
The University and the government of Peru have agreed to extend negotiations for a second time over the title to a collection of Incan artifacts brought to New Haven nearly a century ago from Machu Picchu by the explorer Hiram Bingham III, Yale officials told the News Sunday. After years of controversy, Yale and Peru announced Sept. 14 that the two parties had agreed to...
Seventy-six days after Yale and Peru established a 60-day timeline for a final agreement on the title to a collection of Incan artifacts from Machu Picchu — brought to New Haven by Yale explorer Hiram Bingham III nearly a century ago — the two parties still have not concluded their negotiations. In a Sept. 14 joint statement, officials from Yale and Peru — who said...
Effective July 2008, professor of geology and geophysics Derek Briggs will assume the role of director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History for a term of five years, University President Richard Levin announced last week. Briggs will replace professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Michael Donoghue as director. The announcement comes at a time when the museum is...
Posted Wednesday 9:00 p.m. Effective July 2008, professor of geology and geophysics Derek Briggs will assume the role of director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History for a term of five years, University President Richard Levin announced this week. Briggs will replace professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Michael Donoghue as director. The announcement...
After almost a century in New Haven, a collection of artifacts excavated from Machu Picchu will be returning to Peru, Yale University and the Peruvian government announced in a joint statement Friday night. Approximately 380 whole, museum-quality objects in the collection, along with a portion of the research collection, will return to Peru, said Yale Vice President and...
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