Author Archives: Anjali Balakrishna

To Judith Clark, a fashion curator trained in architecture, there is little difference between dressing a body and dressing a space. Clark spoke to a group of 20 fashion, art history and architecture enthusiasts Thursday evening about her work creating exhibitions in Britain that showcase the space that clothing and mannequins can occupy. In a »

Ten Yale students from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies have been awarded conservation fellowships for their dedication to environmentalism, according to an e-mail sent to forestry students and faculty Feb. 17. Eight students received the Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship, which provides scholarship money, leadership training and career development, while two received the Wyss »

For the first time since Metro Taxi’s 1987 founding, drivers and administrators met Monday to discuss complaints about the company and its policies. Fifty-two cab drivers for Metro Taxi, Connecticut’s largest taxi provider, assembled outside the company’s headquarters Monday morning, demanding a meeting with company President and CEO Bill Scalzi. Complaints focused on high lease »

Teach for America, which is already the number one employer of graduating Yalies, will seek to recruit even more Elis after receiving a $100 million gift. Four donors — the Broad Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Robertson Foundation and philanthropists Steve and Sue Mandel — each pledged $25 million to the non-profit »

For residents of the Elm City with physical disabilities, taxi transportation is on its way. New Haven-based Metro Taxi is pairing with Hartford’s Yellow Cab Company to drastically increase its wheelchair-accessible cab fleet from one to 140 cars, all run on natural-gas fuel. The enhanced taxis will cost no more than Metro Taxi’s existing 161 »

Students seeking career advice will no longer have to make the long trek to Undergraduate Career Services. Instead, a student liaison in each college will go over resumes, suggest internships and perform many of the same tasks that UCS counselors currently handle. Yale College Council Treasurer and YCC-UCS Committee chairman Brandon Levin ’13 devised the »

Yalie Jay Carney ’87, communications director for Vice President Joe Biden, was selected by President Barack Obama as the new Press Secretary Thursday afternoon. Carney, a journalist by trade and former Washington bureau chief for Time magazine, was picked from a field of competitive candidates. Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton had been projected as a »

As the Obama administration gears up for 2011, two Yalies have been nominated to join the team: Donald Virrilli Jr. ’79 and David S. Cohen LAW ’89. President Obama announced the appointment of Virrilli and Cohen to key administrative positions in the Departments of Justice and the Treasury, respectively, in a press release Monday evening. »

Bobby Shriver LAW ’81 told the News last Tuesday that his father, Robert Sargent Shriver ’38 LAW ’41 was “an activist, not a politician.” During his tenure at Yale, Shriver — a religiously devout public servant — used his editorials in the pages of this newspaper as his pulpit to reach out to his fellow »

POTOMAC, Md. — Robert Sargent Shriver ’38 LAW ’41 visited Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Potomac, Md. every day he was at home in Maryland. Every morning, Shriver could be found in the pews of the church, praying with a rosary — the same rosary with which he was buried this weekend. On »

Dr. Bruce J. Rounsaville ’70, a pioneer in the field of psychiatry, whose groundbreaking work at the Yale School of Medicine revolutionized nationwide approaches to addiction and depression therapy, died Jan. 9. He was 61. Although the cause of Rounsaville’s death remains unknown, he died while swimming at Payne Whitney Gymnasium. During his time on »

Robert Sargent Shriver ’38 LAW ’41, a pioneer for public service who revolutionized community participation in America as a founder of the Peace Corps and the Special Olympics, a 1972 vice-presidential candidate and a Yale Daily News Chairman, died Monday afternoon at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md. He was 95. Shriver, known as “Sarge” to »