The European Union suffers from a high population density and an increasing energy demand. But so does China. In a lecture Monday at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Alice Newton of Algarve University in Portugal addressed the ways in which the two governments can collaborate to solve resulting social and environmental issues — ranging from marine...
Dozens of professors gathered on Friday at Luce Hall at the ceremony announcing the appointment of Mary Miller GRD ’81, the Sterling Professor of the History of Art, as dean of Yale College. But as University President Richard Levin surveyed the assembled masses, he noted that scientists were conspicuously absent. Such is now the case with Yale’s senior...
Professor of Genetics Honored by Prize Arthur Horwich, professor of genetics and pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, won the 2008 Louisa Gross Horwitz Price awarded by Columbia University for outstanding contributions in biology and biochemistry. About half of all Horwitz Prize recipients have later been awarded the Nobel...
Last week, Mayor John DeStefano announced he was going to run for an unprecedented ninth term, which would make him the longest-serving elected mayor in New Haven history. Although he already has one opponent, the chance that someone will be able to mount a successful campaign against him is slim. And unfortunately, without formidable opposition, the mayor is...
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...
