A scattering of buildings just north of the Grove Street Cemetery now have signs posted to their doors that say, in bold capital letters, “This Building Proposed To Be Demolished.”
Yale’s most iconic landmark will spend the year shrouded behind a mask of tarp and steel.
Morsels and Stilesians crowded into the dark and cramped Stiles common room Thursday for a glimpse at a brighter, sleeker future.
Plans to revitalize the Union Street Station have been derailed once again. The plans, which involve a three-tiered redevelopment of the train station and its surrounding neighborhood, are now facing proposals for major cutbacks by Gov. M. Jodi Rell in light of the city’s growing debt and $17 million annual budget shortfall.
For the Yale Biology Building, the second time is the charm.
In 1718, Elihu Yale was approached with a request. The Collegiate School was to move into a grand new home in New Haven — one in need of a donor.
If the University decides to build two new residential colleges, the Yale Tomorrow capital campaign’s initial target of $3 billion could swell to as much as $3.5 or $4 billion, according to officials involved with the fundraising effort.
The Corporation, according to Senior Fellow Roland Betts '68 and other senior University officials, has unanimously decided that the two new residential colleges, if built, will absolutely not be named for living donors. “That’s not been our tradition,” Betts said. And, he added, the University has no plans to change that.
Just as University officials begin to strategize for raising what would presumably amount to hundreds of millions of alumni dollars to help pay for two new residential colleges, a report released Wednesday said Yale failed to keep pace with many of its peers in terms of fundraising last year. Yale fell from third to eighth place in dollars raised by universities in...
As Joel Smilow ’54 stood at the podium during a press conference Wednesday to speak about a donation he made recently to the Yale-New Haven Hospital — the largest gift the hospital has ever received — he said he has been brought to tears by cancer twice this week.
As the University enters the fourth year of the Yale Tomorrow fundraising campaign, it has raised $1.73 billion toward its $3 billion goal, beating expectations. But some involved with the campaign said the pace of donations could slow over the next year.
When Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher Jr. FES ’04 enrolled in Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, he had what the school’s Director of Development Eugenie Gentry called “an unusual profile” for a graduate student.
