Yale University’s 2009 Commencement will be held on May 24 and 25 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 the...
Yale Recycling and the Yale Office of Sustainability invite non-profit groups to partake of its annual Spring Salvage, an opportunity to acquire, free of charge, useful household items donated by Yale students departing for the summer.The free items are...
Fun, fanfare and fond farewells will be on the agenda when Yale celebrates its 308th Commencement weekend Saturday-Monday, May 23-25.The weekend includes a variety of events, from concerts and other performances to receptions and traditional ceremonies....
An estimated 1,000 high school students from seven Connecticut cities gathered in Woolsey Hall on May 6 for a rap concert with the message of non-violence and respect. The event, titled “Rap for Justice,” included performances by the Yale Concert Band,...
Over 250 middle school students from New Haven and West Haven gathered in Davies Auditorium on May 1 to show just how calculating they can be.It was not their deviousness, but their mathematical skills, that the students demonstrated at the third annual...
The Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) has presented its first Gibbs Distinguished Staff Awards to four individuals whose “contributions and actions consistently elevate the operations, performance and morale of the school,...
Harold W. Attridge has been appointed as the first Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean of Yale Divinity School (YDS). The new endowed deanship was created through a $5 million gift from Robert L. McNeil Jr. ’36 B.S. in honor of his grandfather, an 1877 graduate...
Fifty music educators from schools around the country will be honored for their outstanding work June 10–11 at the second biennial “Symposium on Music in Schools” hosted by Yale School of Music.The symposium will include a keynote address by arts activist...
President Barack Obama has nominated federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor, a 1979 graduate of Yale Law School, to the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court being vacated by retiring Justice David H. Souter Sotomayor has served as a judge on the United...
The following were recipients of prizes:Student Prize Winners Francis J. Anscombe Award: Antony Joseph Henry Prentiss Becton Prize: Steven Jay Frederick W. Beinecke Prize: Benjamin Madley Frances Blanshard Fellowship Fund Prize: Philipp Ekardt,...