Matthew Baum ’09 and Geoffrey Shaw ’10 are among 32 students nationwide who this weekend were awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, the most prestigious undergraduate academic scholarship.

The Yale School of Medicine will respond by Dec. 8 to a letter from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, asking about the school’s policy on medical ghostwriting, whereby companies publish articles under researchers’ names, School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern said Wednesday.

The 5 percent fall in early applications to Yale this year can be largely attributed to the financial downturn, according to eight college counselors interviewed Thursday.

Charles Ellis ’59 and his wife University Secretary Linda Lorimer have become the first couple to win the Yale Medal for independent contributions.

While the results of the actual football game have yet to be played out, Yale may already have Harvard beat in at least one arena: the tailgate.

Those who have been hankering for a cup of Baker’s Soup since the famed eating club Mory’s closed last December can get their fix at The Game this Saturday — but it may not be exactly the Baker’s Soup they remember.

Underage consumers are not the intentional targets of the recent crackdown on the purchase and consumption of alcohol on and around campus since mid-October, police officials said.

After years of planning, the short-term future of Swing Space is now thrust back into uncertainty.

Yale University Shuttle Services is expanding its routes to accommodate late-night studiers in Bass Library.

From Old Campus to residential college courtyards, autumn leaves blanket Yale’s campus each year. But gathering the leaves to keep University grounds tidy is no small task.

The Freshman Class Council has run into controversy with its T-shirts for The Game.

Last week, a team of five music scholars from Yale’s peer institutions visited the Music Department and Yale’s music facilities as part of an external review overseen by the Provost’s Office.

Students may find a common theme running through tonight’s dinner menu: peanut macaroni and cheese, tomato and peanut chutney, peanut parmesan spiced chicken cutlet, spicy peanut chaat, roasted potatoes with peanuts and Indian spices, peanut harissa, slaw with chilies and peanuts.
And for dessert — wait for it — peanut pie.

Starting next academic year, Yale will switch from relying on private lenders in favor of a federally funded student loans program, Yale Director of Student Financial Services Caesar Storlazzi said Tuesday.

Hot breakfasts are a thing of the past at most dining halls at Harvard. So are free sweat suits for varsity athletes, salary raises and the jobs of 250 Harvard staff — all casualties of the $220 million budget deficit at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the university’s largest division, following the 29.5 percent drop in Harvard’s endowment.

When Yale is ready to break ground on its delayed construction projects, local construction companies will breathe one collective sigh of relief, they said.

For the first time, Yale is sponsoring a party to bring Harvard and Yale students together before The Game.

Fourteen years after its establishment, the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale now has its first ever artist-in-residence: filmmaker Ilana Lapid ’99.