Laura King named new Trumbull dean
Yale College Dean Richard Brodhead announced the appointment of Laura King as Trumbull College's new dean yesterday afternoon at the college's dining hall. King, a former resident fellow at Trumbull and an English professor at the University of...
Yale close to securing big gift for gay studies
After years of negotiations, Yale may finally secure a substantial gift from Larry Kramer '57, a prominent gay alumnus whose gift the University turned down just four years ago, said Provost Alison Richard, Yale's chief academic and financial officer.
As Black History Month ends, city holds on to Amistad tale
When Steven Spielberg decided to cast Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams and retell the story of Joseph Cinque and his seizure of La Amistad, he couldn't possibly imagine the effect it would have on New Haven's City Hall. In 1997, Spielberg premiered...
Yale tenures first female economics professor
Yale has convinced economics professor Pinelopi Goldberg to come to New Haven -- finally. First Yale tried to get Goldberg to come to graduate school here, but she chose instead to attend Stanford University. After she graduated in 1992, she declined...
Doctors' group asks Yale to relax drug patent
Representatives from Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian medical aid organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, have sent a letter asking the University to permit a generic copy of a Yale-patented AIDS drug to be imported and distributed...
Bladderball: 30 years of zany antics, dangerous fun
There was a time when intramural sports were waged not only in streets of New Haven, but in the skies above. For nearly 30 years, Yale students demonstrated their worthiness to lead our nation by waging brutal struggles for an enormous leather orb.
Hospital-union grievances still unresolved
As Yale-New Haven Hospital's long-postponed hearing before the National Labor Relations Board draws nearer, the ongoing meetings to resolve accusations brought against the hospital by New England Health Care Employees Union District 1199 seem no closer...
Presidential adviser talks Middle East politics
Jay Footlik's first trip to Israel was an unusual one -- he accompanied the President of the United States. As the dynamics of the Middle East peace process shift dramatically with a new American president and the election of a new Israeli prime...
