Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:06am
Aliza Shvarts ’08 has submitted another art piece in place of her controversial senior project that purportedly documented nine months of self-induced miscarriages, the University said this week. The announcement — which came Monday, a week and a half after Shvarts’ initial project inspired nothing short of a national controversy — puts to rest the question of...
As a college student, Joan Steitz was fascinated by science. A chemistry major, Steitz stumbled upon molecular biology — then an emerging field — while assisting senior scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Through her laboratory stint, Steitz even befriended James Watson, one of the scientists responsible for discovering the DNA double helix. At...
Aliza Shvarts ’08 has submitted another art piece in place of her controversial senior project that purportedly documented nine months of self-induced miscarriages, the University said this week. The announcement — which came Monday, a week and a half after Shvarts’ initial project inspired nothing short of a national controversy — appears to provide an answer to...
Easha Anand ’08 and Kezia Kamenetz ’09 can talk for hours about the new street signs that have cropped up lately around New Orleans, the flavor of Cajun food and the small boutiques that line the streets. They talk about the resilient spirit of a city that resists assimilation, and they talk about their hopes for its future. They talk, and worry, and plan for the...
As spring settles in at Yale, the scent would indicate that sprouting — and soon to blossom — is a garden of science unlike any planted by the University before. Yale West, the 137-acre former Bayer facility that will be almost exclusively dedicated to scientific research. Construction of new buildings on Science Hill. Expansion of the science and engineering...
As Yale’s most popular interdisciplinary major undergoes a change in leadership, current professors say they hope to make some key changes to the structure of the Ethics, Politics and Economics program to bring some much-needed stability to its faculty roster. Both EP&E director Seyla Benhabib and Director of Undergraduate Studies Jennifer Bair will step down next...
Aliza Shvarts’ ’08 controversial senior art project may have dominated talk about the Art Department this past week. But today, 20 other senior art majors will unveil their final projects — with or without her. The themes and ideas behind the seniors’ work are profoundly diverse, and the show will feature pieces from each of the four concentrations in the art...
At the beginning of the semester, I was a woman on a mission. I resolved that by May, I would have everything figured out: My major(s) would be decided, my study-abroad plans settled and my GPA reminiscent of high-school glory days. Instead of sticking to the standard name-year-college-major introduction during the first seminars and sections of the semester, I explained...
Yale College faculty members voted unanimously Thursday for the creation of two new undergraduate majors: Modern Middle East Studies and Computing and the Arts. Both majors received the faculty stamp of approval after lengthy campaigns by professors and administrators to design the interdisciplinary majors and drum up faculty and student support. The formalization of the...
As students gathered Tuesday night for the third forum on the possible addition of two new residential colleges, they joked with deans about the need for a “Gourmet Heaven 3” to attract students to the proposed Prospect Street site. Questions that followed focused on students’ concerns about how the proposed colleges’ location could change undergraduate social...
Enthusiastic about the offerings and applications of the ethnicity, race and migration major, a group of students is pushing for ER&M to become a stand-alone major, citing its importance in a multi-cultural, globalized society. Ten students — including ER&M majors and those in other departments — met Friday to develop a game plan for strengthening the University’s...
Despite the growing support of hundreds of Yalies for a new undergraduate major in health studies, administrators said it will be at least a year before such a program can become a reality at Yale. Students lobbying for the creation of the new health studies major organized and circulated a petition in dining halls and at Yale’s Health Care Access Week, which collected...
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