Randolph Crump Miller, retired professor of divinity at Yale University, died of cancer on June 13, in Hamden, Connecticut. Mr. Miller was the Horace Bushnell Professor Emeritus of Christian Nurture at the Yale Divinity School, where he taught for 29...
Yale President Richard C. Levin announced today that Maya Lin has been elected the next Alumni Fellow of the Yale Corporation. Ms. Lin, a graduate of both Yale College and Yale’s Architecture School, will be the first artist to serve on the Yale...
Yale President Richard C. Levin has appointed biodiversity expert Michael J. Donoghue as the director of the University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. Donoghue, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and chair of...
The Yale Graduate School Alumni Association will award its highest honor, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, at this year’s Commencement Convocation on Sunday, May 26, to Linda Gordon (Ph.D. 1970, History), Sharon Long (Ph.D. 1979, Biology), Julia McNamara (...
Among the seniors who will graduate from Yale College on May 27 are several who have achieved extraordinary things-even by Yale standards-in some cases despite daunting challenges.Nana Akua Asafu-Agyei came to Yale from Ghana. Her father died before she...
President Richard C. Levin today congratulated Yale Divinity School Dean Rebecca S. Chopp on her appointment as president of Colgate University and thanked her for her service to Yale. “Colgate is very fortunate to attract Rebecca, who is both a superb...
Yale College junior Chiraag Bains has won a coveted Truman Scholarship in recognition of his “leadership potential, intellectual ability and likelihood of ‘making a difference.’” Bains, of Chelmsford, Mass., was one of 76 scholars selected from a...
Yale University sophomore Andrew Klaber was recently named a Goldman Sachs Global Leader. Klaber is among 100 second-year university students from 17 countries given this honor. He is one of 16 in the United States. The Global Leaders are selected on...
Yale University has announced an investment of over $200 million for the Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics, a new initiative in these rapidly developing areas of scientific research. The initiative represents part of Yale’s previously announced $1...
As part of a national initiative encouraging academic achievement among Hispanic Americans, Yale University recently welcomed a new student chapter of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) promoting academic excellence among Hispanic students. “This...