News Archive, Campaign priorities

The College

  • 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)
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Trumbull College renovations complete, rededication celebrated. Read more
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times, is teaching the advanced journalism seminar at Yale spring semester, 2007. 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.
  • A Yale art gallery program links students with works of art. Read more.
  • Yale College graduates launch company, tap global markets. Read more.
  • A Yale player and a Yale coach are invited to the International Ice Hockey Federation's Women's World Championship. Read more.

The Arts

  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • A generous gift from Jeffrey H. Loria '62, noted collector and art dealer, will fund construction of a new building. Read more.
  • Endowed fund to support a major new publishing series of foreign literatures in translation. Read more
  • The newly renovated Louis Kahn building offers an improved experience, with many recent acquisitions on view for the first time. 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.
  • A Yale art gallery program links students with works of art. Read more.
  • Chamber choir specializes in music from before 1750 and the last hundred years. Read more.

The Sciences

  • 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)
  • 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.
  • John E. Borowy ’50 M.D. leaves a legacy that will benefit medical students for years to come. 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.
  • 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.
  • Annual black-tie benefit supports creation of clinical trials unit within hospital. 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Yale biologists are trying to trap viruses in habitats that force their extinction, according to a new report in Ecology Letters. Read more.
  • The proposed Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven builds on a 30-year legacy of achievement. Read more.
  • An interdisciplinary “center without walls” provides cutting-edge technologies and research opportunities to departments across the University. Read more.

The World

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Yale hosted the seventh annual gathering of the Sterling Fellows, the University’s most generous donors. 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.
  • 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.
  • Maurice R. Greenberg, through his family foundation and The Starr Foundation, are each donating $25 million to Yale. Read more.
  • Yale Professor Jack Balkin explains how blogs are changing the nature of legal discussion and legal education. Read more.
  • President Richard C. Levin calls on large organizations around the world to take action to address global warming. Read more.

Other News of Interest

  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Planned gifts, featured in the new section of our website, provide the resources that create extraordinary opportunities and preserve Yale's future. Read more.
  • Yale School of Management introduces innovative curriculum.
  • 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.
  • 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.