Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
Morsels and Stilesians crowded into the dark and cramped Stiles common room Thursday for a glimpse at a brighter, sleeker future. Despite a freeze on nearly all other campus construction, the $150 million renovation of Morse and Ezra Stiles colleges are set to move ahead on schedule and according to plan, with construction starting next month. While the renovations are a...
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. The first phase of the project called for...
For the Yale Biology Building, the second time is the charm. Three years after its original starting date, the 180,000-square-foot complex will begin to take shape in January when excavation begins, Yale officials say. Site preparation work is already underway in Lot 22 on 230 Whitney Ave., and faculty from the Kline Biology Tower and the Osborn Memorial Laboratory are...
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 what is forming at New Haven might wear the name of Yale College,” a friend of the school wrote to the wealthy Welshman, “your munificence might easily obtain for you such a commemoration and perpetuation of your...
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. Because it was not listed as one of the campaign’s priorities at its launch in September 2006, the proposed expansion of Yale...
Suppose, over champagne at a white-tablecloth fundraising affair, a rich Yale College alumnus — a CEO, a hedge-fund manager, a man of unlimited personal wealth — turns to Roland Betts ’68, the senior fellow of the Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body. “A billion dollars is yours,” he offers. “Just one condition: Christen one of the two...
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. The first time, he found out that the son of a friend from business school had died from cancer. The...
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. Although the University is already more than halfway to its goal, many of the wealthiest alumni and other potential...
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. He was 38 and already had an established career as the chairman of the Wall Street firm Fletcher Asset Management, which he founded...
A new $20 million pledge to the Yale University Art Gallery will fund an expansion of the gallery’s education programs and facilities. Half of the $20 million donation will be used to create a new education center in Street Hall, and the other $10 million will be directed toward endowing the department and its fellowships, said Jock Reynolds, the director of the...
Just as the finishing touches are put on plans for a new state-of-the-art biology laboratory, administrators are trying to hammer out the details of a proposal to build new undergraduate housing while construction workers are preparing a wing of the art gallery for its opening. As familiar as this situation might sound to any Yalie, it could also describe the frenetic...
