Robert A.M. Stern Architects has been selected to design the two new residential colleges of Yale College, President Richard C. Levin has announced. The new colleges will expand the average undergraduate population of 5,250 by 15 percent, to approximately...
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences welcomed 576 new students into what President Richard C. Levin called the “Company of Scholars” on Aug. 28, a day that included both ceremony and orientation.Incoming students joined about 2,000 continuing students...
The Yale University Police Department (YPD) will once again host its popular Citizen’s Police Academy, beginning on Tuesday, October 7. The Citizen’s Police Academy is free of charge and open to members of the Yale and New Haven community. Participants...
In celebration of Yale University’s world-renowned architectural heritage, the Yale Visitor Center will host two historic preservation walking tours on campus in September. Both tours are free and open to the public. The first, on Saturday, September 20,...
The public is invited to witness the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned barn-raising on September 20, as members of the Yale community — students, faculty, alumni, and friends — pitch in to raise a new pavilion at the Yale Farm on Edwards Street. This...
Five Yale University alumni have been selected by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) to receive the Yale Medal in 2008. This year’s recipients are Edward A. Dennis, Linda Koch Lorimer, Roslyn Milstein Meyer, Don T. Nakanishi and William H. Wright II....
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will join University President Richard C. Levin for a conversation in Woolsey Hall on September 19 at 4:30 p.m. before an audience of Yale faculty, students and staff. They will discuss Mr. Blair’s tenure as prime...
Works by two Yale-affiliated artists — one a Pulitzer Prize-winning faculty member and the other a staff member at the School of Drama — will be featured in the exhibition “Piecing It Together: Collages by Donald Margulies and Deborah Berman.” The show...
Yale’s Endowment earned a 4.5% return in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, bringing total assets to $22.9 billion, the University’s Investments Office reported. In a fiscal year ushered in by the start of the financial crisis, the University...
Five Yale students have their feet firmly back on the ground after experiencing weightlessness while testing their self-designed and constructed experiment onboard a gravity-defying NASA aircraft this summer.The students - known as the Yale Drop Team -...