Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
As the recession places strain on the nation’s job market, the Graduate School and its academic departments are rolling out new strategies to help Yale’s graduate students win more professorships and postdoctoral appointments. Tactics and job placement strategies vary by department, as do job placement rates, but Graduate Career Services is set to launch a second...
Some fraction of Yale’s more than 150,000 living alumni will vote over the next two months to place a fellow graduate on the Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body. This year’s ballot, to be released today, announces three candidates for the six-year Alumni Fellow term: Nelson Cunningham ’80, Neal Keny-Guyer SOM ’82 and Sharon Ruwart ’85...
Ami Parekh is a 29-year-old joint J.D.–M.D. candidate graduating from Yale Law School this May. In her first year at Yale, she got involved with Universities Allied for Essential Medicines; the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics; and the American Constitutional Society. But she does not have time for those activities and the late-night meetings they entail...
MONTERREY, Mexico — Stranded in the mountains on the outskirts of industrialized Monterrey is a sprawling slum called Alianza Reál. The shantytown is home to 40,000 Mexicans, most of them displaced persons. Ten thousand children attend school in a building no larger than Connecticut Hall. They live without plumbing or sanitation. The nicest homes are cinder-block...
Despite growing concerns about drug-related violence along the border of Texas and Mexico, a group of Yale affiliates will spend the next week in the country to raise Yale’s profile south of the border. About 150 Elis, including students, alumni and faculty, will travel to Mexico City and Monterrey next week for the University’s largest-ever Yale Week in Mexico. The...
Eight alumni of the Yale World Fellows program were designated Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum. The honor recognizes the eight selected — Imtiaz Ali, Felix Maradiaga, Orzala Ashraf Nemat, Verena Knaus, Maria Lisitsyna, Amit Wanchoo, Thi Hai Khuat and Emilia Sièáková Beblavá — for their “professional accomplishments” and “contributions to...
When a writer for Wine Spectator magazine embarked upon a three-day interview with Stephen Adams ’59 while touring through his six sprawling vineyards in Bordeaux, France, he asked Adams and his wife, Denise, if they would reveal a secret — a secret they had kept for nearly three years. They obliged: It was in that article, “Wine by the Numbers,” that Adams...
In Pierson College on Thursday night, Howard Dean ’71 and David Berg ’71 GRD ’72 sat at a long table, answering questions about a residential college seminar they hope to co-teach in the fall. Dean, the former governor of Vermont and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Berg, a clinical psychiatry professor at the School of Medicine, were...
Alison Des Forges GRD ’72, one of the world’s leading experts on the human rights violations in Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, was among the passengers killed in the commuter plane crash outside Buffalo, N.Y., late Thursday. She was 66 and lived in Buffalo. Her death was confirmed by Human Rights Watch, the New York-based organization for which...
Alison Des Forges GRD '72, one of the world's leading experts on the human rights violations in Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, was among the passengers killed in the commuter plane crash outside Buffalo, N.Y., late Thursday. She was 66 and lived in Buffalo. Her death was confirmed by Human Rights Watch, the New York-based organization for which...
Michael Jones ’11, a member of the Yale College Democrats and the Yale Black Men’s Union, announced Wednesday evening he would run for the Ward 1 aldermanic seat in this fall’s municipal elections. Jones, a Saybrook College political science major from Winston-Salem, N.C., will campaign for the seat currently held by Rachel Plattus ’09. Plattus, who will graduate...
DENVER — Michael Bennet LAW ’93, the superintendent of Denver Public Schools, was named Jan. 3 to the United States Senate seat vacated by Ken Salazar. Bennet will become the eighth Yale graduate currently in the Senate, joining Joseph Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67, John Kerry ’66 and Arlen Specter LAW ’56, among others. Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, whose choice of...
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