2008 News Archive: Campus

December 
12/23/08Yale and Federal Government Reach Settlement Agreement on Research Grant Accounting
12/19/08Yale Professor Elizabeth Alexander Named Inaugural Poet
12/16/08Yale Responds to the Economic Downturn
12/12/08New Planetarium at Yale Opens with Weekly Shows and Classes
12/12/08Yale Bookstore and Campus Customs To Hold Faculty and Staff Appreciation Days
12/12/08Yale Program Offers REMEDY to Poorer Nations’ Need for Medical Supplies
12/12/08Marshall Scholar Goes from Cosmos to Cameroon to Cambridge
12/12/08For 50 Years, John Blum Said ‘Thanks’ by Giving to the United Way
12/09/08Statement by Yale University
12/09/08Yale Seeks Collaborative Relationship with Peru
12/05/08Health Fair for Kids Aims to Spark Hunger for Healthy Food and Active Lifestyles
12/05/08Siedlecki To Retire as Head Coach of Yale Football
12/05/08Food Donations from SOM Will Provide More Than 1,000 Meals This Holiday
12/05/08School of Drama To Stage ‘Epic Tale of Revenge and Madness’
12/05/08Yale Camerata To Present Bach’s ‘Christmas Oratorio’
12/05/08Doctoral Students Are Honored for Their Outstanding Teaching
12/05/08Woodbridge Fellows Get a ‘Behind-the-Scenes’ Look at Yale
12/05/08The Handsome Dans at Movember’s End
12/05/08Truly Gifted

 

November 
11/26/08Yale Undergraduates Win Rhodes, Mitchell Scholarships
11/26/08Open House at Yale Visitor Center, December 4
11/21/08In Focus: ‘Incubator’ Helps Students Learn the Business of Business
11/21/08Student Entrepreneurs Find Their Niche in the ‘Green Explosion’
11/21/08Yale V.P. and Wife Given United Way’s Highest Honor
11/21/08Yale Poets Louise Glück and Henri Cole Win Prestigious Prizes
11/21/08Life Is Full of Turbulence in Yale Rep’s ‘Rough Crossing’
11/21/08Conference To Examine Work of French Film Critic and Theorist
11/18/08Yale Names New Chief Diversity Officer
11/17/08Message from President Levin about Yale’s 2008 University-wide Workplace Survey
11/14/08Students Urged to Notify Yale College if Financial Aid Need has Changed
11/14/08Chair Pays Tribute to Economist William Brainard’s Leadership
11/14/08New Hall at the Peabody Museum Sparkles and Shines
11/14/08For First Time in 20 years, Yale Holds Reunion for Former Physics Students
11/14/08Yale-United Way Drive Offers a Way To Invest in Community Programs, Such as the School-Readiness Initiative Success By 6
11/10/08Statement by Yale University
11/08/08Special Events Celebrate the Rededication of Paul Rudolph’s “Art & Architecture Building” and the Opening of Yale’s New Arts Complex
11/07/08Men Raising ‘Mo’ Money for Cancer Research
11/07/08Conference Explores ‘Why Books Still Matter’
11/07/08Junior Faculty Win Awards in Support of Their Research
11/07/08During United Way Campaign, Volunteers Share in Spirit of Giving
11/07/08'Crazy in Japan’ Conference Explores Country’s Increase in Mental Health Issues
11/06/08Award-Winning New York Times Environment Reporter to Speak at Yale

 

October 
10/31/08Concert To Benefit Homeless Shelter
10/31/08Primate Social Behavior — And What It Reveals About Humans — Is Focus of Event
10/31/08International Conference Will Focus on the ‘Global Crisis of Malaria’
10/24/08Through Annual Drive, Yale Staff Unites To Say ‘We Care’
10/24/08City’s Fine Dining Celebrated During First Restaurant Week
10/24/08Contemporary Horror, Science Fiction and Thriller Films From Korea Are Focus of Two-Day Event
10/24/08Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist To Deliver the Tanner Lectures
10/24/08Nelson Mandela’s Life Honored in Sterling Show
10/24/08Nutritional Challenges in China To Be Focus of Symposium
10/22/08President Richard C. Levin Statement to Yale Community on the Financial Crisis
10/22/08Oster Named Dean of SOM
10/17/08Student’s Blog Aims To Bring More ‘High-Brow’ Perspective to Debates
10/17/08Grant Supports Yale Library Project To Improve Access to Digital Resources
10/16/08 Yale Doubles Number of Free Online Courses
10/10/08Prominent Art Historian Named Dean of Yale College
10/10/08Yale Staffer Keeps Seniors Tap-Tap-Tapping Along
10/10/08Inuit Culture Is the Focus of Three-Day Celebration of Indigenous Peoples
10/10/08“Speaking of Faith” Host To Be Among Divinity Convocation Speakers
10/10/08Exhibit Explores Webster as Patriot, Historian and ‘Yale Man’
10/03/08Leading Commercial Litigator to Discuss Case Against Texas Utility
10/03/08Endowment Management and Yale College Access and Affordability
10/03/08Yale Junior Wins Bronze Medal in Paralympics
10/03/08Three Yale Affiliates Receive MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants
10/03/08Gordon Named Interim Dean of Yale College
10/03/08World Fellows Discuss the Impact of Gender
10/03/08Preserving the Past, Building the Future
10/03/08US Airways Magazine Profiles New Haven and Yale
10/02/08Statement by Yale University On its Negotiations With Peru
10/02/08Noah Webster Fêted for 250th Birthday

 

September 
09/30/08Yale Awards Wilbur Cross Medals to Five Alumni
09/26/08New Office Will Coordinate Digitization of Yale Resources
09/26/08Melina Shannon-DiPietro Named Director of Yale Sustainable Food Project
09/25/08In Freshman’s Puzzles, It Helps To ‘Mind Your P’s and Q’s’
09/19/08Videos: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair — Opening remarks to the class on Faith and Globalization and a Talk at Woolsey Hall
09/19/08Scientific American Editor John Rennie To Give Poynter Lecture on ‘The Greening of the Media’
09/19/08Annual Appeal To Aid Education, Economic and Health Programs
09/19/08‘Governing After 2008’ To Ponder the Future Following the Election
09/19/08Nurse Honored for 30 Years of Service to Yale Student Athletes
09/18/08Yale Endowment Reaches Record Spending Levels and Market Value after a 4.5% Return
09/12/08Media Advisory: A Talk with Tony Blair at Yale
09/12/08New Graduate Students Enter ‘A World of Questions’
09/12/08Violist Wing Ho is First Class of ’57 Visiting Professor
09/12/08Renowned Composers and Performers Join Music Faculty
09/12/08Leaders Forum To Feature Talk by President Levin
09/12/08Yale Rep Opens Its Season With ‘Passion Play’
09/12/08Reading To Showcase Yale Drama Series Award-Winning Play
09/12/08DNA Sequencing Technologies To Be Examined in Symposium
09/12/08Mental Health Experts To Discuss New Research on Mood Disorders
09/12/08Blair To Discuss Career, New Faith Foundation in Woolsey Talk
09/12/08Campus Community Invited To Meet New World Fellows
09/12/08New Exhibition Examines A Late 18th-Century Art Hoax
09/11/08Association of Yale Alumni Names Yale Medalists
09/11/08Yale Sustainable Food Project To Raise a New Roof
09/11/08Walking Tours at Yale Highlight Historic Preservation
09/11/08Yale University Police Department Hosts Citizen’s Police Academy
09/04/08Robert A.M. Stern Architects to Design Residential Colleges

 

August 
08/30/08Class of 2012 Arrives on Campus
08/30/08Freshman Address: "A Contrarian Education" by Dean Peter Salovey
08/29/08In Focus: Ulysses S. Grant Program
08/29/08Mudd Library To Be Closed During Redesign
08/28/08Yale College Welcomes Class of 2012
08/27/08Yale Names Vice President for New West Campus
08/27/08Yale College Dean Named University Provost
08/26/08Statement by Yale University
08/26/08Statement by Yale University (Español)
08/20/08General Mills Executive Joins Yale as Vice President
08/14/08Yale Dermatologists Offer Free Skin Cancer Screenings at Pilot Pen — Mayor DeStefano Declares August 17th “Play Safe in the Sun” Day

 

July 
07/24/08Enrollment Open for “Faith and Globalization” Seminar
07/18/08Yale University Announces New Assistant Chief of Police

 

June 
06/26/08Groundbreaking for New Home of Yale University Health Services, June 30
06/13/08Newest Graduates Urged to be ‘Global Citizens’
06/13/08Teachers and Students are Honored at Commencement with Special Prizes
06/13/08New Golf Facility is Named in Honor of Longtime Yale Coach
06/13/08Memorial Service for Jane Panico
06/07/08Yale to Establish Two New Residential Colleges
06/04/08Pioneering Organic Chemist Elected to Yale Board of Trustees
06/03/08Yale President Levin Lauds Proposed Selection of Provost Hamilton to Lead Oxford

 

May 
05/28/082008 Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Prizes
05/28/082008 Graduate Mentor Award Winners
05/26/08Yale's 307th Commencement
05/26/08Yale Degrees Awarded May 26, 2008
05/26/082008 Yale College Teaching Prizes
05/26/082008 Yale Honorary Degrees
05/26/082008 Yale College Class Day Student Prizes
05/26/082008 High Stand, Athletics, Arts and Council of Masters Prizes
05/26/08Martin Rees Yale 2008 Honorary Degree Recipient
05/26/08Brodhead, Ford and Kiphuth Award Winners Announced
05/21/08Moe’s Southwest Grill Opens in a Yale Community Investment Property
05/19/08Yale University to Hold 307th Commencement May 25, 26 – Tony Blair to be Class Day Speaker
05/16/08Yale and New Haven Musicians Put on Concert to Aid Disaster Victims
05/16/08Council of Masters Honors 10 Juniors for their Scholarship, Character and Contributions
05/16/08Campus Leaders Discuss Strategies for Increasing Staff Diversity
05/16/08Two Seniors Will Study at the University of Cambridge as Gates Scholars
05/14/08Yale to Celebrate 307th Graduation
05/09/08Yale Chaplain Welcomes New Pastor and Associate Chaplain
05/07/08Honoring Town-Gown Partners
05/06/08Selection of Archives from The Yale Daily News Goes Online

 

April 
04/21/08Statement of Peter Salovey, Dean of Yale College
04/18/08Statements from Yale Spokesperson and Deans of Yale College and Yale School of Art
04/17/08Statements from Yale Spokesperson
04/16/08Yale Alumni to Volunteer in Connecticut on "Day of Service"
04/16/08Students from New Haven's Middle Schools to Show Their Math Prowess in Yale Competition
04/15/08Governors to Gather at Yale for Climate Change Conference
04/10/08Yale Will Hold Conference on Disaster Preparation
04/08/08Yale and City to Honor New Haven Students Receiving Carson Scholar Awards
04/02/08Fair and Panel Discussion on Sustainability at Yale
04/02/08Yale Students Invite New Haven Residents to Communiversity Day

 

January 
01/21/08Yale Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 17%
01/14/08Yale Cuts Costs for Families and Students
01/10/08Yale University Honors the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
01/10/08Yale University Increases Benefit for Employee Homebuyer Program