President Richard C. Levin has named Susan Hockfield as the next Provost of Yale University. Hockfield, who was reappointed earlier this fall to a second term as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will succeed Alison Richard, who has been...
The Board of Governors of the Yale University Press appointed as its new director John Donatich, currently Vice President and Publisher of Basic Books. Donatich will succeed John Ryden, who retires as director of the University Press after 23 years of...
Three Yale College seniors are among 40 leading young Americans who were awarded Marshall Scholarships to study at a university in Great Britain next year. Chesa Boudin, of Chicago, is a history major. He spent his junior year studying at the University...
Chesa Boudin and Prateek Tandon, both seniors at Yale College, have been awarded 2003 Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford University. Tandon, of Watertown, Massachusetts, majors in African Studies and Economics. With an exemplary record in both of...
Yale’s Center for Media Initiatives (CMI) will preview Yale’s first high definition television (HDTV) production on December 11, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Rosenfeld Hall, 109 Grove Street. The production, “History and Memory,” is a series of video vignettes...
President Richard C. Levin today thanked Provost Alison Richard for her three decades of service to Yale and congratulated her on being proposed as the next Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. “In nearly nine years as Provost, Alison has inspired...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin has announced that a new center to serve emeritus faculty as a place to meet and work will open in January 2003. The Center – to be known as the Henry Koerner Center – has been made possible by a gift from...
The Yale Divinity School has received a grant of over $1.5 million from Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. to participate in a national program called “Sustaining Pastoral Excellence.” The program is a new effort of the Endowment to focus...
Yale has announced that effective next year for the Class of 2008, it will no longer require college admissions applicants who are accepted early to commit to attend Yale at the time that they apply. In recent years, Yale College has admitted part of...
Scenes from Julia Robert’s next feature film, “Mona Lisa Smile,” will be shot on the Yale campus on November 1. In the movie, scheduled to open next year, Roberts plays an idealistic graduate of Berkeley who moves to Wellesley College in 1953 to teach...