Sotomayor breaks records 8.28.09
Earlier this month, Judge Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79 took her seat as a Supreme Court justice, replacing retiring Justice David Souter.
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Investigators reach out to ’99 alumni 8.28.09
At the 10-year reunion for the class of 1999 in early June, the tragic death of Suzanne Jovin ’99 continued to linger over the group’s collective experience.
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Collins GRD ’74 confirmed as NIH director 8.10.09
The Senate on Friday unanimously confirmed Francis Collins GRD '74 as the next director of the National Institutes of Health.
Gwathmey 'poured his heart and soul' into A&A, Goldberger says 8.06.09
In an interview with the News yesterday, the dean of the School of Architecture, Robert A.M. Stern ARC '65, argued that criticism of the Loria Center for the History of Art, the recent work of his late friend Charles Gwathmey ARC '62, will lessen over time. In an
Two Kohs are better than one 8.04.09
Bored during your internship? Here's something to add to your reading list: A profile of former Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh and his brother, Howard Koh '73 MED '77, that appeared in The Boston Globe today. The brothers are now, respectively, legal...
Bass ’82 launches second Web-only publication 6.26.09
As newspapers across the country continue to go bankrupt, Yale lecturer Paul Bass ’82 just launched a new media outlet for south-central Connecticut. But don't look for this paper in print: Like the New Haven Independent, which Bass started in 2005, it is only available online. The Online Journalism Project, which is led by Bass, launched its second online-only...
Senate approves Koh. No, not that one. 6.19.09
One of the above Kohs has been confirmed by the Senate. Guess which one! (Hint: The less controversial one.) The Senate voted Friday to approve the nomination of Howard Koh ’73 MED ’77 — pictured at right — for the position of assistant secretary for health in the Department of Health and Human Services,...
Miller: Sotomayor 'a dedicated and serious young woman' 6.16.09
Before Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79 was nominated to the Supreme Court, she was a student at Princeton — and a classmate of Yale College Dean Mary Miller. Along with four other students, Sotomayor and Miller served on a student search committee for a new assistant dean of student affairs. Frustrated with the process, the group wrote a letter to the editor in the September...
Recapping the Clinton visit 5.26.09
Hillary Clinton's LAW '73 trip to New Haven on Monday created a veritable buzz. (According to the New Haven Independent, she even got to enter through the otherwise locked L-Dub gate! Seriously! Celebrities...) Shortly after Commencement exercises ended around noon Monday, she...
Eli snags Treasury post 5.21.09
Another Yale alumnus has joined the Obama administration, this time with a prominent gig in the Treasury Department. The Senate confirmed Neal Wolin '83 LAW '88 as deputy treasury secretary, the number two official to Secretary Timothy Geithner, on Tuesday. Wolin, who was named deputy assistant to President Obama and deputy counsel to the president for economic...
Old dean, new title 5.21.09
A $5 million gift has given Divinity School Dean Harold Attridge a new title: the Henry L. Slack Dean of Yale Divinity School. The new endowed deanship was created by Robert McNeil Jr. '36 in honor of his grandfather, a leader of the Congregational Church in Connecticut who graduated from the Divinity School in 1877. The donation comes at a time when the...
Buckley nervous as Class Day approaches 5.20.09
Christopher Buckley ’75, the speaker at Class Day this weekend, is a little nervous about his speech. “It’s all rather nerve-wracking, really,” he wrote Sunday on The Daily Beast. “Let me say to President Obama,...
