The authorities have not identified any suspects in the disappearance of Annie Le GRD ’13, even as they expanded the search for her on Friday and Yale offered a reward of $10,000 for information. Yale Police Department Chief James Perrotti said in an interview late Friday evening that law enforcement officials “still have no idea” »
Tony Blair, the former British prime minister who is teaching a course at Yale on “Faith and Globalization” again this semester, said in an interview yesterday that he agrees with Yale’s decision to publish a book about the 2005 Danish cartoon controversy without including the cartoons. Speaking to reporters for about a half hour in »
After a full day of work, authorities have no good news to report in the search for Annie Le GRD ’13. Investigators interviewed Le’s friends and colleagues Thursday and continued to search the research facility at 10 Amistad St. where she was last seen Tuesday morning. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation were seen »
A retired Yale employee carrying a gun and ammunition was arrested on the edge of campus Thursday, and University officials believe he may have been targeting the nearby Human Resources office. The gunman, John Petrini, 61, was spotted Thursday morning in a parking lot at 191 Whitney Ave., which is not Yale property but is »
A retired Yale employee carrying an unloaded gun and ammunition was arrested on the fringe of campus Thursday, and University officials believe he may have been targeting the nearby Human Resources office. The gunman, John Petrini, 61, was spotted around 11 a.m. in a parking lot at 191 Whitney Ave., which is not Yale property »
A 24-year-old graduate student at the Yale School of Medicine was declared missing on Wednesday by the Yale Police Department. According to the police, Annie Marie Le GRD ’13 — whose wedding is supposed to take place on Sunday — has not been seen or heard from since Tuesday morning. Deputy University Secretary Martha Highsmith, »
NEW YORK — Tony Blair’s travels to Yale keep bringing him to late-night television studios. Last year, just before the former British prime minister began teaching a course on faith and globalization at Yale, he stopped by the set of “The Daily Show,” where Jon Stewart asked, “Faith and globalization: which side is winning?” Blair »
Justin Neuman, an assistant professor of English, had Herculean plans for his first section of the “European Literary Tradition” this year. He wanted to use a SMART Board in his Linsly-Chittenden Hall room to break apart the first verse of the Iliad. His idea was to display the passage on the interactive screen and use »
That Yale secured enough donations to continue with its renovation of the Art Gallery’s facilities came as a lone bright spot after a difficult year for the University’s fundraisers. Yale raked in gifts totaling about $439 million between July 1 of last year and June 30 of this year, Vice President for Development Inge Reichenbach »
Correction Appended A group of prominent conservative alumni has joined the chorus of critics of Yale’s decision to remove caricatures of Muhammad from an upcoming book about the 2005 Danish cartoon controversy. John Bolton ’70 LAW ’74, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and a group of other graduates who call themselves the »
Preservationists also have raised concerns about the environmental cost of demolishing buildings, which creates mountains of waste. Patrick Pinnell ’71 ARC ’74, a critic of the demolition plans who is author of “Yale University: The Campus Guide,” said the University should be concerned about demolishing functional buildings for sustainability reasons as well as historical ones. »
As Yale prepares to demolish some of the buildings on the site of the two new residential colleges this fall, state officials and local preservationists are buzzing with talk of whether some of the structures can be saved. Although they have no authority to stop the bulldozers, which could start work over the next few »