Prize-winning author Anne Fadiman has been appointed the first Francis Writer in Residence in Yale College. Fadiman will be at Yale for three years, beginning January 2005. The Francis Writer in Residence, established recently by Paul E. Francis,...
Yale College senior David Ballard Haltom was the recipient of a Saint Andrew’s Society scholarship for graduate work in Scotland, and junior Robert Douglas James received a Beinecke Scholarship to pursue his studies following his graduation next year....
Barry L. Zaret, M.D., The Robert Berliner Professor of Medicine, section chief of internal medicine/cardiology and professor of diagnostic radiology at Yale, has been awarded a prestigious 2004 Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his outstanding...
Eight members of the Yale University faculty have been named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), the oldest and most illustrious learned society in the United States. The newly elected Fellows are Richard H. Brodhead, Donald Max...
Yale College sophomore Jacob Leibenluft was one of 20 undergraduates from the U.S. and Canada named a Goldman Sachs Global Leader. Leibenluft joins 100 new Global Leaders worldwide being honored for academic excellence and leadership achievements by the...
Yale University Professors Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber offer a practical guide to mobilize voters, in their new book “Get Out the Vote!,” to be released April 30 by the Brookings Institution.
Voter participation in the United States is dismal: The...
Noted author Adam Phillips will deliver a lecture at Yale titled “ ‘Great Expectations’ and First Impressions” on May 6. Free and open to the public, the talk is the annual Freud Lecture sponsored by the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and...
The 25th Annual Seton Elm and Ivy Awards will be presented by Yale University President Richard C. Levin and New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. on Wednesday, April 28, noon to 2 p.m. in the Presidents Room of Woolsey Hall. The Awards were established...
Two Yale College seniors and two recent Yale graduates are among 31 Gates Cambridge Scholars selected from candidates around the world to pursue graduate study at Cambridge University in England, beginning October 2004. Gates Cambridge Scholars include...
Washington Post columnist and former editor of the International Herald Tribune, David Ignatius, will give a talk at Yale titled “Why the Press Failed on 9/11 and Iraq” on Monday, April 26. Ignatius, who will be speaking at Yale as a Poynter Fellow,...