The Graduate School’s John Addison Porter Prize was presented to two students this year at Commencement. The prize was established in 1872 by the Kingsley Trust Association – The Scroll and Key Society – in honor of Professor John Addison Porter. It is...
Five distinguished alumni of Yale University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will be honored at Commencement with Wilbur Lucius Cross Medals for outstanding achievement in their professional lives. These awards, the highest honors issued by the...
At Yale University’s 297th Commencement today, 2,989 degrees were conferred, including 216 awarded provisionally to members of the Law School. These figures are subject to change. The breakdown is as follows: HONORARY DEGREES: 9 YALE COLLEGE...
President Richard C. Levin and Yale trustee Jose Cabranes were among the 146 individuals elected recently as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, along with faculty members David Bromwich, the Bird White Housum Professor of English and...
The Yale-China Association has awarded teaching fellowships to Yale College seniors Alice Ko, Daniel Magida, Daniel Walfish and Alex Brenner, as well as to 1997 graduate Brian Seibert. The fellows will teach English in Hong Kong and mainland China for...
Since the first Yale commencement in 1702, certain distinguished persons selected by the Yale Corporation have received honorary degrees. The Provost announces the name of each recipient, the Senior Marshal and Corporation Marshal place a hood over the...
Two seniors received the David Everett Chantler Award during Senior Class Day exercises on Sunday, May 24. The award is given to the senior who “best exemplifies the qualities of courage, strength of character and high moral purpose.” The awards were...
Three members of the Class of 1998 who have been active in the Yale and New Haven communities were awarded the Roosevelt L. Thompson Prize during Senior Class Day exercises on Sunday, May 24. Stanton Wheeler, chair of the Council of Masters Committee on...
Yale University’s 297th Commencement events will be held Sunday, May 24, and Monday, May 25, on the Yale campus. For more details, see http://www.yale.edu/secretary/commencement. All reporters and photographers must have Yale media credentials during...
Yale University’s proposed operating budget for 1998-99, which for the second year in a row is balanced, projects spending of $1.16 billion, an increase of approximately 5 percent over the current spending plan. The major sources of revenue for the...