James Perrotti, who has served for 25 years on the Yale Police Department and has been its acting chief for the past six months, has been named Chief of Yale University Police. As chief, Perrotti will lead the 77-member Yale police force and will...
Classes at Yale College, the undergraduate college of Yale University, will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 2. Freshmen check into their dormitories starting at 9 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 28. At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, President Richard C....
Reporters and photographers are invited to the first in a series of open houses to showcase major renovation and construction projects completed recently at Yale University. Architects and construction managers, as well as representatives from Yale’s...
Linda A. Mason, president and co-founder of Bright Horizons Children’s Centers Inc., the nation’s largest provider of corporate-sponsored early childhood education, has been chosen in a nationwide balloting of her fellow Yale graduates to serve as an...
Since the first Yale commencement in 1702, certain distinguished persons selected by the Yale Corporation have received honorary degrees. The Provost announces the name of each recipient, the Senior Marshal and Corporation Marshal place a hood over the...
Two seniors received the David Everett Chantler Award during Senior Class Day exercises on Sunday, May 24. The award is given to the senior who “best exemplifies the qualities of courage, strength of character and high moral purpose.” The awards were...
Three members of the Class of 1998 who have been active in the Yale and New Haven communities were awarded the Roosevelt L. Thompson Prize during Senior Class Day exercises on Sunday, May 24. Stanton Wheeler, chair of the Council of Masters Committee on...
Yale University’s 297th Commencement events will be held Sunday, May 24, and Monday, May 25, on the Yale campus. For more details, see http://www.yale.edu/secretary/commencement. All reporters and photographers must have Yale media credentials during...
Yale University’s proposed operating budget for 1998-99, which for the second year in a row is balanced, projects spending of $1.16 billion, an increase of approximately 5 percent over the current spending plan. The major sources of revenue for the...
Melvin J. Cohen, professor emeritus of biology at Yale University and a noted neurobiologist, died Feb. 22 in Berkeley, Calif. A member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, he was 69 years old and was affiliated with Yale for 29 years....