News highlights

With your support, the Yale Tomorrow campaign is helping to advance the University’s mission of education, research, and the preservation of knowledge. Read on for the latest news about the campaign and its impact on faculty and students around campus.More than sixty members of the Yale Tomorrow Campaign Committees met to discuss how the new West Campus will affect Yale and the Campaign. Read more.

  • More than sixty members of the Yale Tomorrow Campaign Committees met to discuss how the new West Campus will affect Yale and the Campaign. Read more. (May 5, 2008)
  • The School of Medicine has announced the creation of the David J. Leffell Prize for Clinical Excellence, an annual award. Read more. (April 11, 2008)
  • With a gift of $10 million to the School of Medicine, Roz Milstein and Jerry Meyer are helping to expand the School’s research and treatment programs in melanoma. Read more. (April 11, 2008)
  • On the Warner Bros. Studios lot, Brownstone Street was transformed to receive guests for a March 17 celebration of the Yale Tomorrow campaign. Read more. (April 3, 2008)
  • On February 29, Yale alumni, parents, and friends gathered at the spectacular Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for the latest Yale Tomorrow campaign regional launch. Read more. (March 24, 2008)
  • The 2008 Senior Class Gift campaign was a tremendous success, with a 74 percent participation rate and more than $26,600 raised. Read more. (March 19, 2008)
  • Professor Karsten Harries was named in 2006 as the first incumbent of the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professorship in Philosophy. Read more. (March 3, 2008)
  • To celebrate the establishment of the Hines Endowed Fund for Advanced Sustainability in Architectural Design, Yale School of Architecture will host a major symposium on April 4–5 reexamining fundamental assumptions of sustainable design. Read more. (February 27, 2008)
  • When Mary Attardo ’11, a freshman from Staten Island, New York, decided to come to Yale, she was looking for a challenge. Read more. (February 27, 2008)
  • When Nick Sedlet ’08, a Branford College physics major, first arrived at Yale from Plano, Texas, he never imagined that one day he would speak Chinese, experience weightlessness, or acquire worldwide assets as part of a Yale investment group. Read more. (January 25, 2008)
  • Yale School of Drama has received a $3.235 million gift from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, Inc., to establish an endowed scholarship fund. Read more. (January 23, 2008)
  • Yale Tomorrow hosts gatherings of alumni, parents, and friends from around the world. Now, an online scrapbook chronicles these Campaign events and milestones. Read more. (January 17, 2008)
  • When Yale’s Chinese language debate team spent a week in Beijing representing the United States, the Richard U. Light ’24 Fellowship program played a critical role in their success. Read more. (January 17, 2008)
  • With generous support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Yale University recently launched Open Yale Courses, an innovative project offering some of Yale’s most popular courses online and free of charge. Read more. (January 17, 2008)
  • The Campaign Annual Report 2006-2007 recognizes and celebrates giving to the Yale Tomorrow campaign during the 2006-2007 fiscal year. Read more. (December 12, 2007)
  • On November 30, 2007, Yale University hosted the official dedication of the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library. Special guests at the event included donors William H. Wright II ’82 and Carmen and John Thain P ’08. Read more. (December, 2007)
  • More than 150 alumni, friends, students, and faculty gathered for the recent rededication of Silliman College, marking a new beginning for the College, the eighth of Yale’s residential complexes to undergo a top-to-bottom renovation. Read more. (December 3, 2007)
  • A party of more than 600 alumni, parents, and friends gathered in Coxe Cage November 17, 2007, to celebrate the top-to-bottom renovation of Yale Bowl, a national landmark now in its ninety-third season of gridiron action. Read more. (Nov. 27, 2007)
  • Jonathan Edwards College has embarked on a yearlong renovation. The renovation is part of a phased program to upgrade all twelve of the residential colleges. Calhoun College is the next in line. Read more. (Nov. 26, 2007)
  • A recent gift from Thomas Kempner ’75 creates a fellowship fund that will be awarded to Ph.D. candidates to underwrite their research. Read more. (Nov. 6, 2007)
  • Joel E. Smilow ’54 will make a major gift to support the new, 14-story cancer hospital currently under construction at Yale–New Haven. Read more. (Nov. 2, 2007)