Yale’s endowment, which is the largest source of annual revenue for the University, provides substantial support for Yale’s educational, research and public service missions. Yale manages its endowment to provide substantial, sustainable, and consistent...
Students at the Yale School of Architecture handed over the keys to a house that they designed and built to its new owners at a ceremony on Sept. 25 at 20 King Place (at Truman Street).The dedication of the house will mark the completion of the school’s...
Both the well-known and less-celebrated achievements of Noah Webster, creator of the first comprehensive American dictionary, will be celebrated at Yale on October 16–17 in commemoration of his 250th birthday. The two-day fête, titled “Shaping a Language...
Yale University is continuing to work toward an agreement with the government of Peru regarding Yale’s collection of artifacts excavated from Machu Picchu. Yale’s representatives had a productive meeting on September 27 in New York with Peru’s Foreign...
The October issue of US Airways’ in-flight magazine features a comprehensive profile of the City of New Haven and of the positive impact that Yale has on the city’s attractiveness as a place to live, work and visit. Full Article
Mary E. Miller, Sterling Professor of the History of Art and master of Saybrook College, has been named dean of Yale College by President Richard C. Levin. “Mary has devoted her entire career to Yale and has been an exemplary academic citizen,” Levin said...
Dr. Arthur Horwich, Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been given two prestigious honors.He received the 2008 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize awarded by Columbia...
Eight new courses in history, economics, literature and biomedical engineering taught by leading faculty have been added to “Open Yale Courses,” the University’s free online education initiative. The courses, which were recorded in their entirety as they...
It is impossible to ignore the dramatic headlines and news reports surrounding the worldwide financial crisis. During times like these, it is only natural to be concerned about the effect the current economic state might have on the University and, in...
It wasn’t the kind of strategizing you’d expect to overhear during an Olympic event. “You have to make sure the spring is even,” said Richard Kwan, a senior from Weston High School, as he fiddled delicately with one of the three cylinders hanging from the...