News & Updates
ISAW Names Clare Fitzgerald Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator
Inside New York-Presbyterian: Chief Resident Dr. Babacar Cisse
The neurosurgery resident shares how he came to America with $26 in his pocket and achieved his dream of becoming a doctor. Watch and learn about the inspirational video highlighting his remarkable journey from Senegal to the United States.
Hall of Fame: 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Winners
New Plaque Unveiled at Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Remaking Ancient Greece with Paints or Pixels: NYT Review of ISAW Exhibit
Poets House Celebrates 30th Anniversary!
Taylor Branch talks wabout Researching & Writing Biographies
C-SPAN - Taylor Branch spoke with Kai Bird at the Leon Levy Center for Biography about the challenges of researching and writing biographies. Branch's trilogy on the civil rights era chronicled Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and work during that period.
WSJ Review of ‘Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans’ at ISAW
The Wall Street Journal - Many of our ideas about Minoan civilization—drawn largely from the ruins of Knossos—are, at least in part, products of artful imagination. Some three decades ago—an eye blink in archaeological time—I looked out over the ancient ruins of Knossos in Crete, accompanied by a bus-load of tourists and a voluble...
Harvard Semitic Museum Hosts ASOR 2017
The Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications is housed at the Harvard Semitic Museum, which hosted the closing celebration for ASOR 2017 in Boston. Assistant Program Coordinator Peter Mueller presented the program's recently redesigned website and many of the nearly 150 publications sponsored by the program...
New Funding for Cooper Union’s Architecture Archive Database
The Architecture Archive’s Student Work Collection, a project to digitize, catalog, and exhibit over 80 years of work produced by former Cooper Union architecture students, received a major boost this summer with two grants from the Leon Levy Foundation and the Graham Foundation.
