Working as a medical/surgical nurse in a Thai hospital, Wantana Limkulpong knew that she needed to do more to help her patients. Many were men who had become infected with HIV through their relations with prostitutes. Even more heartbreaking were the...
The Graduate School’s John Addison Porter Prize was presented to two students this year at Commencement. The prize was established in 1872 by the Kingsley Trust Association – The Scroll and Key Society – in honor of Professor John Addison Porter. It is...
Five distinguished alumni of Yale University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will be honored at Commencement with Wilbur Lucius Cross Medals for outstanding achievement in their professional lives. These awards, the highest honors issued by the...
At Yale University’s 297th Commencement today, 2,989 degrees were conferred, including 216 awarded provisionally to members of the Law School. These figures are subject to change. The breakdown is as follows: HONORARY DEGREES: 9 YALE COLLEGE...
Women can use political skills to advance themselves in the job market as well as in public office, according to George Dean and Ann Sheffer, co-chairs of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale – WCS. Each June the school offers a five-day intensive...
President Richard C. Levin and Yale trustee Jose Cabranes were among the 146 individuals elected recently as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, along with faculty members David Bromwich, the Bird White Housum Professor of English and...
The Yale-China Association has awarded teaching fellowships to Yale College seniors Alice Ko, Daniel Magida, Daniel Walfish and Alex Brenner, as well as to 1997 graduate Brian Seibert. The fellows will teach English in Hong Kong and mainland China for...
At a hearing of Governor John Rowland’s Bond Commission today in Hartford, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History was awarded a $250,000 grant for installation of an environmental cooling system for the Great Hall of Dinosaurs, one of Connecticut’...
Yale scientists report they have synthesized molecules like those that probably gave rise to the earliest life forms on Earth nearly 4 billion years ago, thus creating a biochemist’s version of “Jurassic Park” populated by exotic molecular “fossils”...
Entertainer Lena Horne was one of nine distinguished individuals awarded honorary degrees today at Yale University Commencement ceremonies. She received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Other honorary degree recipients were His All Holiness...