Yale President Richard C. Levin has appointed biodiversity expert Michael J. Donoghue as the director of the University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. Donoghue, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and chair of...
Two members of the Yale College Class of 2002 who have been active in the Yale and New Haven communities were awarded the Roosevelt L. Thompson Prize during Senior Class Day ceremonies. Judith B. Krauss, chair of the Council of Masters Committee on...
Six faculty members named as outstanding teachers were honored at the Yale College Senior lass Day program on Sunday, May 26. The teachers were nominated by undergraduates to receive the Yale College Prizes for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and...
Two Yale seniors who represent the ideals of “sportsmanship and Yale tradition” and an athlete who has “shown spirit and courage” during her long recovery from a serious car accident were presented athletic awards by Thomas A. Beckett, director of...
At Yale University’s 301st Commencement today, 10 honorary doctorates and 2,625 earned degrees were conferred, including 237 that were awarded provisionally to students of the Law School. All figures are subject to change. The degrees were awarded as...
Three members of the Class of 2002 were presented David Everett Chantler Awards during Senior Class Day exercises at Yale on March 26. The Chantler Award is given to a graduating senior (or seniors) “who best exemplifies the qualities of courage,...
Three Yale seniors received the Robert E. Lewis Award during Senior Class Day exercises on May 26. The award is presented each year to the senior (or seniors) who has shown commitment and high ideals as a participant in intramural sports. The awards...
Six Yale College seniors were awarded prizes for superior academic work in their fields of study during Senior Class Day exercises on May 26. Richard Brodhead, dean of Yale College, presented the awards during the ceremony on Old Campus. The names of...
The Yale Graduate School Alumni Association will award its highest honor, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, at this year’s Commencement Convocation on Sunday, May 26, to Linda Gordon (Ph.D. 1970, History), Sharon Long (Ph.D. 1979, Biology), Julia McNamara (...
Among the seniors who will graduate from Yale College on May 27 are several who have achieved extraordinary things-even by Yale standards-in some cases despite daunting challenges.Nana Akua Asafu-Agyei came to Yale from Ghana. Her father died before she...