Yale University has received a leadership donation to endow three varsity athletic team coaching positions. Joel E. Smilow, a member of the Yale Class of 1954 and the former Chairman, CEO and President of Playtex Products Inc., has contributed the...
Robin W. Winks, the Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History at Yale University, died on April 7 at Yale-New Haven Hospital. A beloved husband, father, teacher, colleague and historian, Professor Winks was also an enthusiastic supporter of and...
Fulfilling a principal mission of a great teaching institution and reflecting the highest values of a free and open society, Yale University President Richard C. Levin initiated a series of faculty-led discussions on the many ramifications of the Iraq...
A committee performing the first comprehensive review of Yale College in 30 years has recommended changes to enhance instruction in writing, quantitative reasoning, science, art and language and to support study abroad. The Committee on Yale College...
A memorial service for Georges May will be held on April 5 at 4 p.m. in Yale’s Battell Chapel, the corner of Elm and College streets. A long-time professor of French who served both as Dean of Yale College and Provost of the University, May died on...
A memorial Mass for Brandon Brei, a graduate student at Yale University, will be held on April 5 at noon at St. Thomas More Church, 268 Park St. in New Haven. Brei, whose family lives in Orange, Conn., was studying microbiology. He drowned last...
As of next fall, only “Fair Trade”-certified coffee will be served in the dining halls of Yale University. Switching from conventionally traded coffee was the unanimous decision of members of the student advocacy group, the Yale Sustainable Food...
Yale University reported that about 50% of its clerical and technical employees did not participate in a strike called today by their union, Local 34 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees. “Nearly half of our clerical and technical workers...
Georges May, a leading scholar of French literature who held two top administrative posts at Yale University, has died at his home in New Haven at the age of 82. The Sterling Professor emeritus of French at Yale, May was a native of France and...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin has announced the reappointment of Robert A.M. Stern for a second term of five years as Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. During his five-year tenure, Stern has brought major changes to the School: from...