News Archive

 

May

  • 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)

April

  • 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)

March

  • 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)

February

  • 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)

January

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

December

  • 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.
  • The Campaign Annual Report 2006-2007 recognizes and celebrates giving to the Yale Tomorrow campaign during the 2006-2007 fiscal year. Read more.
  • 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.

November 2007

  • New York City, a longtime destination of dreams for Yale alumni, served as an ideal location for the latest Yale Tomorrow regional launch. Read more.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Yale attracts the nation’s most talented students to its arts programs, graduating the dramatists, musicians, artists, and architects who define the best of America’s culture. Endowed financial aid is a growing part of this great Yale tradition. Read more.
  • A generous gift from Fred Danforth ’73, P’11 and Carlene B. Larsson P’11, funding a new position at Yale’s Native American Cultural Center, was the focus of a recent celebration. Read more.
  • 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.
  • A recent gift by Steven J. Kumble ’54 will provide financial aid in Yale College, supporting both American students studying abroad and international students studying at Yale. Read more.
  • The David and Lucile Packard Foundation recently awarded Alexey Fedorov a fellowship for his research on large-scale interactions between tropical oceans and the atmosphere. Read more.
  • The historic Spencer House was the setting for a recent celebration of alumni, parents, and friends in the London area. Read more.

October 2007

  • Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. ’51 has endowed the deanship of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Read more.
  • Indra Nooyi, SOM alum, Corporation fellow, and CEO of PepsiCo, introduced her guests to Yale President Richard C. Levin during an intimate dinner at Pepsi’s historic Calloway House. Read more.
  • A harbor steeped in history, a crisp fall evening, and the newly opened Institute for Contemporary Art set the stage for the unveiling of the Yale Tomorrow campaign in Boston. Read more.
  • A native of Homer, Alaska, Adrian Ryan quickly felt at home when he arrived at Yale. Read more.
  • 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.

September 2007

  • Frederick Frank has announced a $5 million bequest to create a new professorship in the Yale School of Management. Read more.
  • Work has begun on the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center, a new facility being funded by gifts from Samuel J. Heyman ’60 and the estate of Joseph F. Cullman III ’35. Read more.
  • Yale invites people from around the world to visit its campus—virtually—and to enjoy excerpts from the University’s educational treasury with its new “Yale on iTunesU” Web site.
  • The Giving Catalog now includes online floor plans for several major construction projects, including the Cross Campus Library, Kroon Hall, Davenport College, the A+A Building, the new Arts Library, and the Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of Art.
  • T. Kyle Vanderlick appointed Dean of Engineering and the Thomas E. Golden Professor of Engineering. Read more.
  • The Yale Corporation has approved a $23.5 million Ingalls Rink renovation, to be funded in part by the Yale Tomorrow campaign. Read more.
  • The Class of 2011 arrived on campus in August. For many of these bright young people, your support is essential. Read more.

July/August 2007

  • A contribution of $2.5 million has endowed a fund in the School of Medicine in honor of William Orthwein, a 1938 graduate of Yale College. Read more.
  • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation will donate $10 million to support the China Law Center, an interdisciplinary center in the Yale Law School. Read more.
  • A gift from investor David Nierenberg ’75, ’78 J.D. and his wife Patricia will support the new interdisciplinary Millstein Center at the Yale School of Management, as well as an endowed professorship. Read more.
  • John E. Borowy ’50 M.D. leaves a legacy that will benefit medical students for years to come. Read more.
  • The numerous accomplishments of Yale Alumni Fund and Reunion Gift Committee volunteers were recognized during two celebrations that kicked off the 2007 reunion weekends. Read more.

May/June 2007

  • Davenport and Silliman masters Richard Schottenfeld ’71, ’76 M.D. and Judith Krauss ’70 MSN hosted a gathering to dedicate Robert M. Arnold Hall, the latest celebration in the continuing renewal of the Yale’s residential colleges. Read more.
  • An introductory course, funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, challenges students to think like working scientists and to have a personal stake in the outcome of their projects. Read more.
  • Yale hosted the seventh annual gathering of the Sterling Fellows, the University’s most generous donors. Read more.
  • On May 3, Yale University broke ground on a new home for the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, a facility that will be a model for “green” architecture worldwide. Read more.
  • More than 130 Yale Tomorrow Executive Committee and Campaign Committee members met for a campaign update and to discuss two prospective new residential colleges. Read more.
  • Annual black-tie benefit supports creation of clinical trials unit within hospital. Read more.
  • Trumbull College renovations complete, rededication celebrated. Read more
  • Yale School of Drama Dean and Yale Rep Artistic Director Bundy discusses accomplishments, goals, and Yale Tomorrow campaign. Read more.
  • A fellowship established through a gift from Richard J. Franke ’53, brings distingushed visitors to the Whitney and promotes scholarly exchange. Read more.

March/April 2007

  • A centerpiece of Yale Tomorrow is financial aid. For talented students like Michael Noltemeyer, contributions in this area are more important than ever. Read more.
  • Alum’s $2.5 million gift spurs study of Alzheimer’s. The gift will support the School of Medicine's Yale Scholars Initiative. Read more.
  • Endowed fund to support a major new publishing series of foreign literatures in translation. Read more.
  • The Yale PET Center provides a fast, accurate way to take pictures of the living brain and other parts of the body. Read more.
  • Provost Andrew Hamilton has announced that Paul Fleury, dean of Yale Engineering, will be the new director of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering (YINQE). Read more.
  • President Richard C. Levin calls on large organizations around the world to take action to address global warming. Read more.
  • Chamber choir specializes in music from before 1750 and the last hundred years. Read more.
  • A Yale player and a Yale coach are invited to the International Ice Hockey Federation's Women's World Championship. Read more.
  • Yale scientists are lifting the veil on the human brain thanks to new imaging tools that show its workings in detail and in real time. Read more.
  • A course on evolution, ecology and behavior is designed to teach students how to ask good questions. Read more.
  • A generous gift from Jeffrey H. Loria '62, noted collector and art dealer, will fund construction of a new building. Read more.
  • Yale Professor Jack Balkin explains how blogs are changing the nature of legal discussion and legal education. Read more.
  • The Class of 2007 Senior Class Gift campaign was a resounding and record-breaking success. The class raised more than $27,000 from 80 percent of the class, beating the previous record for dollars raised.

January/February 2007

  • Planned gifts, featured in the new section of our website, provide the resources that create extraordinary opportunities and preserve Yale's future. Read more.
  • Creativity and dyslexia, the humanities, and women's health are among the topics of new podcasts from the Yale Tomorrow launch.
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  • Yale alumnus Thomas C. Israel '66 makes an unrestricted gift to the School of Medicine, carrying on a tradition begun by his late father, Adrian C. “Ace” Israel '36. Read more.
  • The newly renovated Louis Kahn building offers an improved experience, with many recent acquisitions on view for the first time. Read more.
  • Two Yale professors use cutting-edge research tools to tackle genetically complex human disorders like age-related macular degeneration and Crohn's disease. Read more.
  • President Richard C. Levin will lead a delegation of Yale students, faculty and administrators to China this spring at the invitation of President Hu Jintao of China. Read more.
  • Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times, is teaching the advanced journalism seminar at Yale spring semester, 2007. Read more.
  • The new PET Research Center allows researchers and clinicians to more quickly identify and treat disease. Read more.
  • A new paper co-authored by Eric Sargis, a Yale researcher and an assistant curator at the Peabody Museum, reconstructs the base of the primate family tree. Read more.
  • When members of the Yale School of Management first-year class traveled recently, it helped them prepare for their first assignment of the spring term. Read more.
  • Yale biologists are trying to trap viruses in habitats that force their extinction, according to a new report in Ecology Letters. Read more.
  • Professor of Music History Ellen Rosand wins an award that will allow her to create a Baroque opera company for Yale undergraduates. Read more.
  • Forestry & Environment Tomorrow, Divinity Tomorrow, and Nursing Tomorrow have been posted in the Campaign Library. Read more.

November/December 2006

  • Campaign Report 2006 highlights tremendous outpouring of donor support. Read more.
  • Lectures from the Yale Tomorrow launch, featuring experts from Yale, are available now as podcasts. Read more.
  • President Levin's case statement, along with several others, have been posted in the campaign library. Read more.
  • Yale alumni Nicholas F. Brady and Charles B. Johnson have provided a generous gift to fund the teaching and research of an expanded Grand Strategy Program for 15 years. Read more.

October 2006

  • The proposed Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven builds on a 30-year legacy of achievement. Read more.
  • President Levin announces public phase of Yale tomorrow. Read more.
  • On Sept. 30, Yale launched Yale Tomorrow, a five-year, $3 billion campaign to build the future of the University. Read more.
  • Maurice R. Greenberg, through his family foundation and The Starr Foundation, are each donating $25 million to Yale. Read more.

September 2006

  • An interdisciplinary “center without walls” provides cutting-edge technologies and research opportunities to departments across the University. Posted Sept. 30, 2006. Read more.
  • Yale art gallery program links students with works of art.
  • Yale College graduates launch company to tap global markets.
  • Yale School of Management introduces innovative curriculum.