President Richard C. Levin today applauded the proposed appointment of Yale Provost and distinguished scientist Andrew Hamilton as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.“As a noted scientist, a successful department chair, university...
President Richard C. Levin announced today the decision to move forward with the expansion of Yale College. In a letter to Yale alumni, faculty, students and staff, he discussed the University’s decision to increase the enrollment of Yale College by 15...
Renowned organic chemist Peter Dervan has been elected an Alumni Fellow to the Yale Corporation for a six-year term commencing July 1, 2008.Dervan is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. For 30 years he has been a...
Scientists seeking link between stress and addiction.Yale psychologist Rajita Sinha started with a simple question posed to a diverse group of academic colleagues at Yale and two other universities.“What is the role that stress plays in the loss of self-...
Members of the Yale community will be one step closer to a new state-of-the-art health care facility when officials break ground on the new Yale University Health Services (YUHS) on June 30 at 9:30 a.m. at 55 Lock St., corner of Canal. Speakers at the...
Yale’s Bass and Walpole library renovations win national recognition for designTwo recent library renovation projects have won national recognition.The Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, which opened to visitors last summer, won an Award of Merit in the...
Larry Samuelson, newly named as the inaugural A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics, focuses his research and teaching on microeconomic theory, game theory, repeated games and the evolutionary foundations of economic behavior.He is the author of “The...
Ebonya L. Washington, the newly designated Henry Kohn Assistant Professor of Economics, specializes in public finance and political economy.Washington teaches courses in both economics and political science. Her research interests focus on the interplay...
The David Paterson Golf Technology Center, a new facility to enhance the quality of training and the performance of the men’s and women’s teams, was formally dedicated on May 3.Named in honor of longtime Yale golf coach Dave Paterson, who is retiring, the...
Yale’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences (Ob/Gyn) recently sponsored two Yale medical students on a medical mission to Kenya, where they participated in the care of women with a condition known as vesicovaginal fistula,...