David Burt
DAVID BURT & ALIYYA SWABY
Administrators reconsider lab credit

Science students angry about their half-credit lab courses will soon have their voices heard. The Yale College Council will release a report this spring that […]

October 21, 2010

DAVID BURT & JORDI GASSÓ
Voting not enough for grad teachers

Graduate students who work as teaching fellows at private universities are not considered employees, according to a 2004 National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, ruling. […]

October 21, 2010

DAVID BURT
Language students get credit for culture

Popular Israeli singer Ivri Lider performed to a sold-out crowd Monday night in the Whitney Humanities Center — but some Hebrew students in the audience […]

October 19, 2010

DAVID BURT
Fractals founder Mandelbrot dies

Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Benoit Mandelbrot, who coined the term “fractal” and founded the field of fractal geometry, died on Thursday from pancreatic cancer. […]

October 18, 2010

DAVID BURT
Medical school bucks empathy trend

Yale Medical School officials say they look for empathy and compassion in their applicants, which contradicts the trend found in a new Kaplan survey that […]

October 12, 2010

DAVID BURT & EMILY WANGER
Yale graduate wins Nobel Prize

Yale graduate andMassachusetts Institue of Technology professor Peter A. Diamond ’61 won the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Sciences on Monday for his work […]

October 12, 2010

DAVID BURT & EMILY WANGER
Alum wins Nobel for Economics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Peter A. Diamond ’60 won the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science Monday for his work developing models designed […]

October 11, 2010

DAVID BURT
University announces sustainability goals

University President Richard Levin yesterday announced a set of three-year sustainability goals, recommended by a task force comprised of University administrators. The new plan is […]

October 5, 2010

DAVID BURT
Lightbulbs on, thermostats off

When the Yale Community Carbon Fund and the New Haven Office of Sustainability realized they were developing similar programs to improve energy efficiency, the two […]

September 29, 2010

DAVID BURT
M. CREW | Heavyweight coach brings trail of success to New Haven

The men’s heavyweight crew team has lost nine of its last 10 Yale-Harvard races. But the team’s new coach, Stephen Gladstone, one of the premier […]

September 23, 2010

DAVID BURT & MADELINE MCMAHON
New boathouse to revitalize harbor

  Three years after Yale’s historic George Adee Memorial Boathouse was razed, a new boathouse is coming to the Elm City. New Haven Harbor became […]

September 23, 2010