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...
President Richard C. Levin and Yale trustee Jose Cabranes were among the 146 individuals elected recently as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, along with faculty members David Bromwich, the Bird White Housum Professor of English and...
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...
The Yale-China Association has awarded teaching fellowships to Yale College seniors Alice Ko, Daniel Magida, Daniel Walfish and Alex Brenner, as well as to 1997 graduate Brian Seibert. The fellows will teach English in Hong Kong and mainland China for...
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....
Two Yale University faculty members were honored recently for captivating their students in the classroom and for making noted contributions to their fields. Historian Howard R. Lamar and statistician Joseph T. Chang received the William Clyde DeVane...
Susan Hockfield, professor of neurobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, has been appointed dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University President Richard C. Levin announced today. Yale’s Graduate School is the largest of the...
Carol Jayne Schlosberg, 40, artist and painter, died Sunday, March 29, in Puerto Escondido, on the Pacific coast of Mexico. An alumna of Yale School of Art (M.F.A. 1992), she taught at the school from 1993-1995. She worked in New Haven for John...
A $1 million endowment to boost geography education in Connecticut local schools will be launched by the National Geographic Society, the Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority and Yale University next week. National Geographic Society -NGS- Chairman...