Georgia Holland, a senior in Yale College and captain of the field hockey team, has been chosen to represent the United States at the Junior World Cup to be held in Mönchengladbach, Germany, July 27 to Aug. 4.The Junior World Cup tournament occurs every...
Dakota McCoy ’13 was named to the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America Division I women’s track and field/cross country second team.To qualify for the honor, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30...
The Office of the President announced the reappointment of Yair Minsky, professor of mathematics, as chair of the Department of Mathematics. His term will be for eighteen months, effective July 1.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded funding to investigators at Yale University to conduct the “Comprehensive Evaluation of Risk Factors in Older Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction” or “SILVER-AMI” study to better understand what is...
The Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science at Yale University School of Medicine, was awarded a $110,000 grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) to support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of blinding diseases. Dr....
Michael B. Bracken has been named the recipient of the 2013 Abraham Lilienfeld Award. Bracken is the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, and professor of neurology...
President Peter Salovey announced the appointment of Dirk Bergemann, the Douglass and Marian Campbell Professor of Economics, as chair of the Department of Economics. Bergemann’s term will be for three years, effective July 1.
Ernesto Zedillo, the Frederick Iseman ’74 Director of the Yale Center Study of Globalization, has been appointed to The Elders, an independent group of global leaders who work together for peace and human rights.The Elders were brought together in 2007 by...