 Recipients receive a cash prize and give a public lecture on the Yale campus in New Haven, Connecticut as well as a second lecture in New York City.The prize is named for city planner, musician, and photographer James Brudner (1961-1998), a member of the Yale College class of 1983 and Stuyvesant High School Class of 1979.Brudner died of AIDS-related illness on September 18, 1998.