The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected seven members from the Yale faculty, including President-elect Peter Salovey, to the 2013 group of new members. The academy is a policy research center devoted to the cross-disciplinary study of various emerging problems, with headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. The Academy currently has 4,551 fellows and 603 foreign »
While some students may have wanted more transparency in Yale’s presidential search process, the debate in New Haven did not have reason to escalate to court. But at the public institution Louisiana State University, similar complaints are backed by Louisiana Law, and the editor in chief of the school newspaper is suing her school for »
Blackstone Chairman and CEO Stephen Schwarzman ’69 announced the establishment of a new elite scholarship fund that will send 200 students a year to study in China, and University President Richard Levin will serve as a member of its 18-person Honorary Advisory Board. The scholarship will pay for 200 students from around the world to »
Princeton University announced today that current Princeton Provost Christopher Eisgruber will assume leadership of the school in the fall. The choice marks the completion of the third Ivy League presidential search this year — as well as the third selection of a provost — following November appointments of Provost Peter Salovey and University of Michigan »
Alexei Navalny, a 2010 Yale World Fellow, will stand trial on Wednesday in Kirov, Russia over an embezzlement charge that his supporters are decrying as a thinly veiled political trial. Navalny, the political activist in opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin, faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty — a conviction Navalny »