Mia Reinoso Genoni, a Mellon Special Collections Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow and a lecturer in the Humanities Program, has been named the next dean of Berkeley College (BK).She succeeds Kevin Hicks will be leaving the deanship at the end of this...
“Proud, proud, proud!” were the words that grandmother Barbara Goldstein of New Mexico used to sum up her feelings during Yale’s 309th Commencement ceremony on May 24, when nearly 1,300 undergraduates and more than 3,000 graduate students were...
The following is President Levin’s introductory remarks for each honorary degree recipient.Click here to view recipient bios.ROBERT ALTER As a scholar of comparative literature, your thoughtful and brilliant work ranges from studies of the English and...
At Yale University’s 309th Commencement today, 10 honorary doctorates and 2,986 earned degrees were conferred, in addition to 225 that were awarded provisionally to students of the Yale Law School and 32 to students in the Physician Assistant program,...
The following prizes were awarded at Yale College Class Day on Sunday, May 23.The ROBERT E. LEWIS PRIZE is given to seniors who best demonstrate the highest ideals of athletics and intramural competition.Tiffany PetrosinoLeslie GoldenKatherine...
President Bill Clinton urged graduating seniors to be in the “reform business” in his Class Day address held on May 23 on Yale’s Old Campus.“We have to become relentlessly committed to change — and change is hard,” said Clinton.It is traditional for...
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) has launched a year-long project at New Haven’s Union Station.The majority of the work performed at the station affects the pedestrian tunnel, which provides access to the train platforms. Construction...
Vice President and General Counsel Dorothy K. Robinson issued the following statement on the nomination of Susan Carney:We are pleased and proud that President Obama has nominated Deputy General Counsel Susan L. Carney to serve on the U.S. Court of...
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs ‘10 and Chris Riederer ‘10 know that a computer game can’t end world hunger, eradicate malaria or reduce child mortality.But the game the two Yale students created to bring attention to these issues did win first place at the U.S....
There will be a memorial service honoring Martin Price, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 27, in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.A reception will follow.Price, who died on April 10 at age 90, was a...