Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 5:06am
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...
A faculty member in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations currently being investigated by the University after allegations of sexual harassment committed sexual harassment twice against the same victim, not once as previously reported. The faculty member also pressured others in the department to keep quiet about the incidents, according to...
Manifest Destiny: Yale Looks WestA Six-Part Series 1) In a whirlwind, Yale goes West2) With West campus, Yale excuses form for function3) Ortiz’s new calling: Yale-West...
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Ten years ago, University President Richard Levin laid out his goals for advancing Yale over the next decade. Investing in the sciences was among them — and the gleaming new Daniel L. Malone Engineering Center and the Class of ’54 Chemistry Research Building are proof of that. But on an urban campus, new laboratories can only be built so...
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Next to the West Campus’ gleaming, brick-and-steel laboratory buildings lies an unadorned warehouse, clad in metal paneling and weathered from many a New England winter. To Yale’s scientists, those gleaming, state-of-the-art research buildings seem like the complex’s biggest prize. But art aficionados may argue otherwise. To them, that...
Few careers include both research on lemurs in Africa and successful negotiation of environmental reform. But Alison Richard — one-time University provost and former Director of the Yale Peabody Museum — has somehow managed all this and more. The Peabody Museum presented Richard with the Addison Amery Verrill Medal for achievement on Wednesday, its highest honor for...
Fresh off the sands of Myrtle Beach, sporting a fresh tan but not the badge he wore for 30 years, Francisco Ortiz was glad to have some time to recuperate. But this past Monday, it was back to work for Cisco. Just 10 days after leaving his post as chief of the New Haven Police Department, Ortiz had already moved into his new office on Ashmun Street — Yale Police...
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Wild turkeys are a rarity on Yale’s campus in New Haven, but only seven miles away, a flock of dozens roams free across the rolling hills of the newly acquired West Campus. The turkeys are all that inhabit the 137 acres of Yale’s newest scientific treasure, the former home of the pharmaceutical company Bayer HealthCare. Where scientists toiled...
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Yale Provost Andrew Hamilton, a well-tailored Englishman known for his eloquence, does not often lose his composure. But he did just that when he first toured the science complex here that has now become Yale’s West Campus, replete with hundreds of thousands of square feet of state-of-the-art laboratories. “President Levin teases me because he...
A survey of junior faculty members’ opinions on the mentoring — or lack thereof — they receive from senior faculty at the University is accelerating efforts to formalize the mentoring process. In a survey published this month by the Provost’s Office, 58 percent of junior faculty members said they do not feel they have received adequate mentoring at Yale. The...
Yalies are accustomed to receiving campus-wide e-mails — from Police Chief James Perrotti, from University President Richard Levin or from Yale College Dean Peter Salovey. But a new name in their inboxes Wednesday evening had many students scratching their heads. An e-mail addressed to “Members of the Yale Community” condemned a “disturbing series of racist...
Two Yale professors will join the Provost’s Office as deputy provosts responsible for faculty development and science and technology this academic year, officials announced in mid-August. Judy Chevalier ’89 and Steven Girvin will replace Kim Bottomly, the former deputy provost for science, technology and faculty development, who left the University last spring to...
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