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Donations to School of Management increase
Despite weak fund-raising across the University this year, the School of Management has reported an increase in contributions to its Alumni Fund.
Koh sworn in as State Department legal adviser
It’s Former Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh was formally sworn in yesterday as the legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton LAW ’73 delivered the oath of office. The ceremony took place nearly three months after the U.S. Senate confirmed Koh’s appointment after an unexpectedly heated nomination battle. After President Barack Obama nominated Koh in late March, conservative commentators voiced concerns that the dean would place international statutes above American law. Several Republican senators held up a vote on Koh’s nomination until June 25, when the Senate voted to confirm him 62-to-35.
Tuesday's Buzz
• Yale College Council elections have now officially begun. Candidates had until 9 p.m. Tuesday to submit statements. Elections are Thursday. High of 72 degrees, low of 58 degrees, morning showers.
Law students ask for ‘Don’t ask’ repeal
Military recruiters faced no protesters at Yale Law School’s career fair this year, but over 200 members of the Law School community penned an open letter to military recruiters to mark their latest display of discontentment over the military’s ban on openly gay soldiers.
School of Management dean search winds down
Five months after the search process for a new dean began at the Yale School of Management, administrators are winnowing a field of potential candidates.
Q&A | Post LAW ’77 takes the reins
Constitutional law scholar Robert Post LAW ’77 became the 16th dean of Yale Law School on July 1, reflected on his first two months as dean in a conversation with the News on Tuesday.
Briefly: Nooyi, Clinton and Sotomayor among Forbes’s most powerful women
Four Yale alumnae — two from the Law School and two from the School of Management — made Forbes Magazine’s annual “100 Most Powerful Women” list, published every August.
Briefly: Despite last-minute surge, Divinity School fundraising slips
After a slow spring, donations to Yale Divinity School’s Annual Fund surged at the end of the 2009 fiscal year, though fundraising still declined overall, school officials said.
Post LAW ’77 appointed Law School dean
Robert Post LAW ’77 will succeed Harold Hongju Koh as dean of Yale Law School, University President Richard Levin announced over the summer.
Architectural controversy nearly caused Scully to leave Yale in ’99
Vincent Scully spent an entire lifetime at Yale: first as a student, then as a professor for over six decades. But a debate over the partial demolition of the Yale Divinity School in the late 1990s almost caused Scully to sever ties with the University.