Three members of the Yale College Class of 2004 who have been active in the Yale and New Haven communities were awarded the Roosevelt L. Thompson Prize during Senior Class Day ceremonies. Harvey Goldblatt, chair of the Council of Masters Committee on...
Two Yale seniors who represent “the highest ideals of American sportsmanship” were presented athletic awards by Thomas A. Beckett, director of athletics, at the Yale College Senior Class Day exercises on Sunday, May 23. Elizabeth “Miles” Whitman, one of...
Three Yale seniors received the Robert E. Lewis Award during Senior Class Day exercises on May 23. The award is presented each year to the senior or seniors who have shown commitment and high ideals as participants in intramural sports. The awards were...
Yale University’s 2004 Commencement will be held on May 23 and May 24 on the Yale campus. All members of the media must obtain and display Yale media credentials during Class Day (Sunday) and Commencement (Monday) ceremonies on Old Campus for access to...
Five Yale University alumni have been selected by the Association of Yale Alumni to receive the Yale Medal in 2004. This year’s recipients are Robert Bonds ‘71, Mark R. Dollhopf ‘77, Christopher A. Forster ‘54, the Reverend Richard Mather Mapes ‘49...
At the release of the global-warming disaster movie, “The Day After Tomorrow,” a national poll undertaken at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies indicates that 70 percent of Americans believe global warming is a very serious or...
Yale scientists have discovered a new way of illuminating MCH neurons, which may play an important role in regulating appetite and body weight, by using a virus that has been genetically engineered so that it cannot replicate. MCH neurons are located in...
Yale researchers and collaborators have identified molecules that underlie nerve fiber degeneration in patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that cripples nearly three million people worldwide. The new findings are the...
Sean Fenton, one of four Yale students who were killed in a tragic car crash in the winter of 2003, was honored posthumously at Senior Class Day exercises with the F. Wilder Bellamy Jr. Memorial Prize. Dr. Richard Schottenfeld, master of Davenport...
Employees who lose their jobs in the years immediately preceding retirement have twice the risk of suffering a stroke when compared to peers who are still working, according to a study by a Yale researcher. “Our results suggest that late career...