The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences – the nation’s oldest graduate school – marked the beginning of its 151st year with the arrival of 2,300 students in the humanities, social sciences, biological and physical sciences, and engineering....
When classes resume on Wednesday, September 3, Yale College will welcome the 1,310 members of the Class of 2001 to New Haven. The admissions process this year was the most selective in recent memory: fewer than 18 percent of the 12,046 applicants were...
President Richard C. Levin announced today the appointment of Bruce Alexander, a national leader in urban revitalization, as Vice President and Director of New Haven and State Affairs. Mr. Alexander has been responsible for developing some of the...
8/27/97: Media Advisory President Richard C. Levin will announce a major appointment to Yale University on Thursday, August 28, at 4:45 p.m. at the President’s House, 43 Hillhouse Avenue (between Trumbull and Sachem), New Haven. Media are invited...
The fall academic term begins with the start of classes for Yale College students on Wednesday, September 3, 1997. Freshmen arrive in New Haven and begin moving into their campus residences on Friday, August 29. At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 30,...
Sixty-five incoming sophomores and 22 group leaders from the junior and senior classes at Yale College will kick off the sixth annual “FOCUS on New Haven” on Sunday, August 24, with a major cleanup of West River Open Space. “FOCUS on New Haven” is a...
The Open End Theater, created and coordinated by retired Yale professor Thomas Greene, has received a $6,000 grant from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. Funding will enable the ensemble to produce a second season of interactive...
Retired Yale University Professor William A. Christian, Sr. died on Saturday, August 9, at his home in Hamden, Connecticut. He was 92 years old. A specialist in the philosophy of religion, he wrote several important books, including “Doctrines of...
Most poor people in the United States are white, but the news media generally show them as black, according to research by Martin Gilens, assistant professor of political science and a fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale...
Yale alumni clubs and associations across America and in Hong Kong are sponsoring 32 Yale students this summer for community service work. Providing the students with summer stipends frees them from having to work at regular jobs, letting them...