The following honorary degrees were presented at this years commencement. John Lawrence Ashbery You are one of the truly original poets of your time. In poem after poem, you keep your exhilarated readers off balance, capturing the spontaneous wonder of...
This year’s prizes were awarded to the following students. Angel Enriquez, Silliman College – Lewis Prize Jessica Notabaert, Timothy Dwight College – Lewis Prize Colleen Purcell, Morse College – Lewis Prize Betny Anne Townsend, Ezra Stiles College – Lewis...
At Yale University’s 307th Commencement today, eight honorary doctorates and 3,117 earned degrees were conferred, in addition to 235 that were awarded provisionally to students of the Yale Law School and 30 to students in the Physician Assistant program,...
The 2008 Yale College Teaching Prizes were presented to the following faculty.The Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities was awarded to KEITH WRIGHTSON, Randolph W. Townsend, Jr., Professor of History. The Lex Hixon ‘63...
Martin Rees is Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and also Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at Leicester University. Martin...
The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded the following prizes at Commencement Convocation on May 25. The Robert E. Apfel Fellowship Award recognizes the Yale graduate student in Mechanical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering who best...
This year, for the tenth time, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honored three faculty members for their exemplary qualities as mentors. The honorees were chosen by a committee of students and faculty, in coordination the Graduate Teaching Center....
President Richard C. Levin today applauded the proposed appointment of Yale Provost and distinguished scientist Andrew Hamilton as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.“As a noted scientist, a successful department chair, university...
President Richard C. Levin announced today the decision to move forward with the expansion of Yale College. In a letter to Yale alumni, faculty, students and staff, he discussed the University’s decision to increase the enrollment of Yale College by 15...
Renowned organic chemist Peter Dervan has been elected an Alumni Fellow to the Yale Corporation for a six-year term commencing July 1, 2008.Dervan is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. For 30 years he has been a...