WEST HAVEN — When Yale purchased the West Campus a year and a half ago, the 1.6 million square-foot complex was hailed as offering an unprecedented opportunity for the University to expand its collaborative research programs.
Yale College Dean Peter Salovey GRD ’86 will be the University’s next provost, Yale President Richard Levin announced Wednesday, filling one void in the upper reaches of his administration but opening up another. The 50-year-old Salovey, a professor of psychology, will take office Oct. 1. A committee has already been formed to recommend his successor, Levin said. “Peter...
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Students often complain about the trek up Science Hill. But that walk to class might seem like a veritable jaunt in the park compared to the commute to Yale’s new West Campus.
On an urban campus, new laboratories can only be built so quickly. Enter West Campus.
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Next to the West Campus’ gleaming, brick-and-steel laboratory buildings lies an unadorned warehouse, clad in metal paneling and weathered from many a New England winter. To Yale’s scientists, those gleaming, state-of-the-art research buildings seem like the complex’s biggest prize. But art aficionados may argue otherwise. To them, that distinction...
Fresh off the sands of Myrtle Beach, sporting a fresh tan but not the badge he wore for 30 years, Francisco Ortiz was glad to have some time to recuperate. But this past Monday, it was back to work for Cisco.
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Yale Provost Andrew Hamilton, a well-tailored Englishman known for his eloquence, does not often lose his composure. But he did just that when he first toured the science complex here that has now become Yale’s West Campus.
It took two retirements — one 12 years ago and another, effective at the end of today — but Francisco Ortiz is finally ready to put away his New Haven Police Department badge.
Clinical sciences at the Yale School of Medicine, especially neurology and pediatrics, are looking for ways to alleviate a lack of campus laboratory space that YSM professors said affects faculty members, funding and quality of research.
The question of succession has led New Haven Police Department Chief Francisco Ortiz to stick around for a few months long, delaying his transition to a job with Yale. City spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said in a press release issued Dec. 28 that Ortiz will remain as head of the recently-scrutinized department “until sometime in the spring.”
Posted Tuesday 9:50 p.m. Ortiz — who said he would leave his post to direct security at Yale’s new West Campus beginning Jan. 20 — will instead remain the head of the NHPD “until sometime in the spring,” while City Hall continues its nationwide search for the chief’s replacement, spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said in a Dec. 28 press release.
New Haven Police Department Chief Francisco Ortiz announced last week that he will retire from his post in January to become the head of security at Yale’s new West campus, leaving City Hall to conduct a nationwide search for his successor in the coming weeks. The announcement last Monday came three days after the Police Executive Research Forum — a panel of outside...
