Matthew Matera
Forestry school, college may form 5-year program

Marking the latest in the University’s recent moves to strengthen its environmental studies offerings, a new plan proposes a closer alliance between Yale College and […]

Yale faculty often hired in pairs

Future Morse College Master Frank Keil and his wife, professor Christie Lockhart, had a good deal going three years ago at Cornell University, where both […]

Expanding, History nets two new hires

Two more faculty members will join Yale’s most popular undergraduate department, which means a total of at least four new junior history professors are bound […]

Rogers Smith to leave for Penn

Political science professor Rogers Smith, a prize-winning teacher and expert on civil rights and constitutional law, will leave Yale to join the faculty at the […]

GESO nixes invitation to meet with Yale in forum

GESO yesterday decided not to participate in a proposed Graduate Student Assembly-sponsored town meeting on graduate student unionization that would have included representatives of both […]

NYU to bargain with grad union

Mere hours before a vote that could have authorized a teaching assistant strike at New York University began, NYU announced yesterday it will become the […]

Yale tenures first female economics professor

Yale has convinced economics professor Pinelopi Goldberg to come to New Haven — finally. First Yale tried to get Goldberg to come to graduate school […]

In grad admissions, Yale courts minorities

Liza Cariaga-Lo travels across the country on a sales mission, but doesn’t go door-to-door hawking the Encyclopedia Brittanica, life insurance or even Avon cosmetic products. […]

Aid shift may hurt African Studies

A current plan may shift control of financial aid in four master’s programs from the Graduate School to the Yale Center for International and Area […]

More schools try to form TA unions

Teaching assistants at several Ivy League schools, following the lead of graduate student organizers at Yale, are working to join the growing national campaign for […]

Economics makes seven senior offers

By adding as many as seven new senior professors, the Yale economics department hopes to tap the supply of top economics scholars and fill a […]