Koh confirmed for State Department post 8.28.09
The U.S. Senate sealed former Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh’s bid to become the top lawyer at the Department of State following a June confirmation vote.
The U.S. Senate sealed former Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh’s bid to become the top lawyer at the Department of State following a June confirmation vote.
Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79, confirmed as a Supreme Court justice on Aug. 6 by the Senate, has come a long way since publishing her first article in the Yale Law Journal.
The Senate on Friday unanimously confirmed Francis Collins GRD '74 as the next director of the National Institutes of Health.
In another move aimed to boost its standing in the sciences, the University has lured world-renowned scientist James Rothman '71 from Columbia to chair the School of Medicine's department of cell biology.
The University appointed its first openly gay residential-college master Wednesday, tapping acclaimed singer Richard Lalli MUS ’86 to lead Jonathan Edwards College beginning next year.
Richard Lalli MUS ’86 never wanted to be master of one of Yale’s residential colleges.
Posted Thursday Dec. 13 University President Richard Levin announced Wednesday the reappointment of Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern for his third consecutive five-year term, effective July 1, 2008.
Effective July 2008, professor of geology and geophysics Derek Briggs will assume the role of director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History for a term of five years, University President Richard Levin announced last week. Briggs will replace professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Michael Donoghue as director. The announcement comes at a time when the museum is...
Posted Wednesday 9:00 p.m. Effective July 2008, professor of geology and geophysics Derek Briggs will assume the role of director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History for a term of five years, University President Richard Levin announced this week. Briggs will replace professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Michael Donoghue as director.
The University will welcome its first female dean of engineering in January 2008, President Richard Levin announced this week.
Students at the Yale School of Management can look forward to five fresh faces among the faculty this year.
Yale College Dean Peter Salovey confirmed over the weekend that Middlebury College Associate Dean Marichal Gentry will replace outgoing Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg, effective August 1.