Events Calendar

Over 700,000 visitors came to see Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2017-18, making it one of the New York museum’s most visited exhibitions of all time. Behind this eight-years-in-the-making, breathtaking blockbuster was the Met’s Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator, Drawings and Prints, Carmen Bambach Yale College grad ’81 and Yale PhD in the History of Art ’88. The woman who took on this herculean effort had studied the Renaissance genius since she was a teen, and her first major discovery about the artist was identifying a drawing while working on her senior thesis on the Sistine Chapel. It would revolutionize how scholars understood how drawings were used in preparation for paintings.

Her Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered (2019, Yale University Press), the result of twenty-four years of effort, was published, and it was the first four-volume work to win the Association of American Publishers‘ highest PROSE Awards honor, the 2020 RR Hawkins Award. Considered definitive, this comprehensive work weaves together elements of Leonardo’s work and personality. An American Academy of Arts & Sciences fellow, Carmen humanizes art masters and makes them more accessible to the general public.

Carmen won the inaugural Vilcek Prize for Excellence, a $100,000 award honoring an immigrant who has made a significant impact on “American society and world culture.” Last year she was named one of the Carnegie Corporation’s “Great Immigrants.” When she was 14, her family left her homeland Chile after Pinochet’s coup. Arriving in Greenwich, she had little skills in English but soon was studying art history and architecture as an undergraduate at Yale.

Join Carmen on Thursday, September 30, 8:00 pm ET to hear her personal and professional journey. The hour-program will include Q&A.

Consider these ideas: 1) feelings are not facts, but emotions are data 2) emotions can facilitate thinking and decision making, and 3) emotions can be smart and intelligent. The ability model of emotional intelligence views emotions as a form of information and specifies a set of four hard skills.

In this session, we share skills to help you become smarter about emotions, differentiate them from moods and provide you with practical ways to better manage moods and leverage the wisdom of our emotions.

What’s the “new normal” like for Yale graduate and professional students these days? Join us at the next Careers, Life, and Yale Thursday show and hear from a panel of current Yale students about their current experience on campus.

Storytelling plays a key part in many professional pursuits, to include jobs beyond the realms of entertainment and literature. Join Careers, Life, and Yale for a discussion with Josh Shelov, a Yale graduate who has established a career in storytelling through several different roles—screenwriter, producer, director, professor, and now storytelling entrepreneur. Learn all about Josh’s professional journey and what it takes to be successful in the art of storytelling

Join us at the next Careers, Life, and Yale Thursday show to learn more about Sustainable Finance and International Development.

Dr. Ben Green ’73 (PC) and Scott Fisher ’72 (PC) met on the Old Campus as freshman roommates in the Fall of 1968. A lifelong friendship has been enhanced by a collaboration called the Aging Wisely Project, an effort to learn what differentiates seniors who are aging well from those who are not. Their research suggests that there is important work to be done during this capstone portion of life. Ben and Scott will share their initial findings and invite questions, comments and personal stories that validate and critique their research.

Join us Thursday to learn about nursing, medicine, and public health education across the eras. We'll hear from Yale students and alumni as they reflect on their nursing careers. 

In the wake of the pandemic, many Yalies are re-examining their values and reconsidering their careers. Join Careers, Life, and Yale as we talk with Alex Cavoulacos ’08 about self-awareness and career evolution. Cavoulacos is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of The Muse, a values-based career platform used by more than 75 million people to research companies and careers; it was named one of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World. She is also the co-author of the national bestselling book The New Rules of Work: The Modern Playbook for Navigating Your Career.

From performance groups to service organizations, business clubs to athletic teams, cultural associations to politics and government unions, hundreds of student organizations have shaped the vibrancy and diversity of campus life at Yale. 

Over the years, how has the role of student organizations evolved? What are the new challenges and opportunities awaiting these groups? How can alums and current students work together as we emerge from the pandemic?

Join us on Thursday evening to hear what Yale College students (Ray Jin ’25, Eleanor Ann Schoenbrun ’25, and Ken Yan ’23) think, and share with us your perspectives. We look forward to your insights and inspiration.