“He got hold of my daughter and pulled her hair out. … She was bleeding. The next day he gave her an arm burn,” Antoinette Humes said, describing the experiences of her 9-year-old daughter being abused by a school bully.
Long days spent in the lab are paying dividends for two Yale juniors whose work in the sciences was rewarded with the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship on Monday.
To save money, Columbia University will add 50 undergraduates and reduce the number of its doctoral candidates by 10 percent.
While Yale celebrated a record total of about 26,000 applications this year — a roughly 14 percent rise over last year’s total — admissions news at Williams College offered less cause for celebration.
Harvard University will slow major capital expansion projects, freeze top administrators’ salaries and raise the cost of tuition in response to massive losses in the university’s endowment, Harvard President Drew Faust announced in a letter to all students and faculty members on Wednesday.
Yale became the latest school Thursday to dismiss the College Board’s plan to allow students to submit only their top SAT scores from individual exams to colleges.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dean of Admissions Stuart Schmill told the News on Thursday evening that MIT will allow its applicants to select which SAT scores they would like through the new Score Choice policy, which will take effect in March.
DURHAM, N.C. — Five years ago today, Richard Brodhead ’68 GRD ’72 was struggling to get back to New Haven as snow blanketed the northeast. Brodhead, who was at the time in the middle of his 11th year as dean of Yale College, had been on Duke’s campus here in balmy North Carolina to interview one last time for the Duke presidency. As he headed back to New Haven, to what...
Stanford University’s president, provost, school deans and other senior administrators volunteered to cut their salaries by 10 percent as the university tries to reduce its general spending by 15 percent over the next two years, Stanford Provost John Etchemendy said in a letter to faculty and staff Monday. The 2009-’10 budget leaves room for other salaries to increase...
Adam Bouland ’09 is Yale’s lone winner of this year’s Marshall scholarship, given annually to up to 40 American students for postgraduate study in the United Kingdom.
Only one student from Yale received a Rhodes scholarship for two years of study at Oxford University this fall, marking a five-year low in Rhodes recipients for Yale.
