Updated: Friday, July 4, 2008 at 8:35am
While hundreds fell silent in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and all of China came to a halt for three minutes of silence Monday, Yale’s own Chinese community held a similar moment of silence halfway across the world. A candlelight vigil to honor the victims of the massive earthquake that struck the Chinese province of Sichuan last Monday drew approximately 80 to Cross...
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be this year's Class Day speaker, the Senior Class Council said Wednesday in an announcement confirming one of Yale's worst-kept secrets in recent memory. Rumors that Blair would speak at Class Day first surfaced more than two months ago, but Yale officials said that security concerns forbade their revealing the identity of...
University President Richard Levin on Thursday will announce the names of this year’s Yale World Fellows, who will participate in the annual four-month program which aims to promote international dialogue by developing a worldwide network of emerging leaders. The 18 fellows, selected from a pool of nearly 1,000 applications, are distinguished early- to mid-career...
Although the pope has left the United States for Italy, a little bit of Italy will be found on Yale’s campus this weekend. The third annual Italian Film Festival — sponsored by Yale’s Italian Department, the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, the Whitney Humanities Center and the Office of Public Affairs — launches Thursday night with a screening of Ettore...
At least 11 Yale seniors accepted Fulbright Scholarships this year, International Education and Fellowships Program administrators announced Friday. Since the awards are announced on a rolling basis by destination country, scholarship applicants hoping to go to the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan and the Dominican Republic have not yet received a decision, IEFP Fellowships...
After a new program began successfully last year, India’s parliament will once again return to Yale. Yale will host the second annual conference of the India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Program in early June, welcoming approximately 15 delegates from India’s parliament to attend various lectures and discussions over the course of a week at Yale and in Washington...
To University President Richard Levin, the American research university is not just an educational institution. No, it is a “highly effective instrument of U.S. foreign policy,” as he explained Wednesday in a speech to the Foreign Policy Association in New York City. That “provocative hypothesis” was the basis of Levin’s remarks, which centered on the role of...
Technology can be used to heal both broken bones and cultural conflicts, James Billington, the 13th librarian of Congress, said Wednesday. The Yale School of Medicine held the opening ceremony for the interactive exhibit “Medical Inventions and Innovations” in the school’s Harkness Auditorium yesterday afternoon. The ceremony coincided with the 60th annual lecture...
He is only one day removed from celebrating the 15th anniversary of his appointment to the Yale’s top post, but University President Richard Levin is taking no time to celebrate — for there are speeches to be given. Levin, the longest serving president in the Ivy League, will travel to New York City today to deliver what will be his third high-profile speaking...
In a surprising pause in its noted internationalization efforts, Yale has scrapped plans to open an arts institute in Abu Dhabi, citing one irreconcilable difference, University officials confirmed this week. The decision comes as scores of other universities flock to the Middle East, where in several cities American schools have established degree-granting satellite...
In countries ranging from Ghana to Spain to Pakistan, international Yalies will give high-school students an insiders’ peak into life at Yale and the American college application process this summer as part of the recently expanded International Ambassadors program. Following the completion of a pilot ambassadors program in South Asia last winter, the admissions...
After last year’s drought, the floodgates are opening at Yale to an unprecedented number of Luce Scholars. Charles Edel ’01 GRD ’11, Ian Simon GRD ’08 and Micah Ziegler ’08 are three of 18 candidates nationwide chosen this year by the Henry Luce Foundation for the highly selective Luce Scholars Program, the International Education and Fellowship Programs office...
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