President Richard C. Levin has named Professor Michael Donoghue as the first Vice President for West Campus Planning and Program Development, effective October 1.“Michael’s background as both a leading scientist and a museum director makes him uniquely...
The 1,320 freshmen in the Yale College Class of 2012 will be welcomed to campus August 29. The class was selected from a record-high applicant pool of 22,817, of which a record-low of 8.6 percent of the applicants were admitted.The students hail from 48...
Robert A.M. Stern Architects has been selected to design the two new residential colleges of Yale College, President Richard C. Levin has announced. The new colleges will expand the average undergraduate population of 5,250 by 15 percent, to approximately...
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences welcomed 576 new students into what President Richard C. Levin called the “Company of Scholars” on Aug. 28, a day that included both ceremony and orientation.Incoming students joined about 2,000 continuing students...
The Yale University Police Department (YPD) will once again host its popular Citizen’s Police Academy, beginning on Tuesday, October 7. The Citizen’s Police Academy is free of charge and open to members of the Yale and New Haven community. Participants...
In celebration of Yale University’s world-renowned architectural heritage, the Yale Visitor Center will host two historic preservation walking tours on campus in September. Both tours are free and open to the public. The first, on Saturday, September 20,...
The public is invited to witness the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned barn-raising on September 20, as members of the Yale community — students, faculty, alumni, and friends — pitch in to raise a new pavilion at the Yale Farm on Edwards Street. This...
Five Yale University alumni have been selected by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) to receive the Yale Medal in 2008. This year’s recipients are Edward A. Dennis, Linda Koch Lorimer, Roslyn Milstein Meyer, Don T. Nakanishi and William H. Wright II....
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will join University President Richard C. Levin for a conversation in Woolsey Hall on September 19 at 4:30 p.m. before an audience of Yale faculty, students and staff. They will discuss Mr. Blair’s tenure as prime...
Yale’s endowment, which is the largest source of annual revenue for the University, provides substantial support for Yale’s educational, research and public service missions. Yale manages its endowment to provide substantial, sustainable, and consistent...