Martha Fulford
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Whobrey to leave Yale for Liberia
Assistant dean to observe U.N. mission
Assistant Dean William Whobrey, director of Yale Summer Programs, will leave Yale Wednesday for Monrovia, Liberia, where he will serve as the senior U.S. military observer to the United Nations peacekeeping mission there. A colonel in the Army...
Koh favored as next law dean
With a search committee expected to recommend a new Law School dean by the end of the semester, international law professor Harold Koh has emerged the favored candidate, three Yale faculty members said. Professors said Koh, who served as assistant...
Economics rebuilds with five new profs
New department hires fill previously under-represented areas in macro, applied micro
After a series of departures and retirements in the last decade, the economics department is rebuilding with three new senior professors and two junior hires this year. The new professors, most of whom started this fall, fill under-represented areas...
GESO claims harassment at hearing
Administrators, professors decline to attend 'show trial'
GESO members detailed claims of harassment and intimidation at an Academic Labor Board hearing this weekend, while University officials, calling it a "show trial," refused to participate. At the three-hour hearing, members of the Graduate Employees...
Appadurai departs YCIAS
Interdisciplinary prof to become top administrator at New School
After just three semesters at Yale, Arjun Appadurai -- a Yale Center for International and Area Studies interdisciplinary professor -- will leave his post in December to become a top administrator at the New School University in New York City.
Going is slow for some acad. review proposals
Five months after recommending improvements in undergraduate education, ranging from an increase in the size of the faculty to changes in Yale's distributional requirements, the Committee on Yale College Education is moving toward implementing its...
Biochem prof Macnab dies in fall down stairs
Molecular biophysics and biochemistry professor Robert Macnab, known for his Scottish accent and efforts to make biochemistry accessible to undergraduates, died Sunday after falling down a flight of stairs in his home. He was 63. Macnab, who joined...
Online course evaluation access goes live
Students to have access to last year's student responses for shopping considerations
Discriminating Yale students have a new course-shopping tool at their fingertips. Students can now view evaluations of last fall's courses when they log into Yale's online course registration Web site. The evaluations, including the text of students'...
Facing picket lines, some profs venture off campus
Political Science professor Douglas Rae had just finished explaining the role of labor in New Haven's history to a packed SSS 114 Thursday morning when the chants and airhorn rings from the picket line overwhelmed his lecture. "Let's stop and talk...
History Dept. tests online registration
Students now register for sections online
A new History Department policy requiring students to register online for discussion sections is drawing the ire of some students, who say it will complicate course selection while eliminating their ability to shop for sections. History chairman Jon...