Yale’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications and the Yale University Library announced in a Tuesday press release that all Yale alumni will gain free access to all JSTOR collections licensed by Yale. More than 130,000 alumni worldwide can now access a “treasure trove” of online resources thanks to collaboration between the Yale University Library, »
Former Yale professor Christopher Sims was awarded the Nobel Prize in economic sciences on Monday. Sims, who now works at Princeton, and Sargent won the award with New York University professor Thomas Sargent for developing methods to identify causal relationships between economic policy and macroeconomic variables. “He has a respect for the data that I »
A Yale student faces charges after the New Haven fire department had to rescue her from the face of East Rock on Thursday, the New Haven Independent reported. The rescue left the Yalie safe and sound, but three firefighters were sent to the hospital. One was struck by a falling rock, and another landed in »
Mory’s Student Board is looking for new members. In an email sent out by Mory’s this morning, the Student Board advertised for “five to seven motivated and innovative students” to join the Student Board, which was created last semester and currently has 15 members – 10 from Yale College and five from Yale’s graduate schools. »
Yale professor Dan Esty LAW ’86, now the state’s environmental and energy commissioner, is in hot water in Hartford over a financial tie with a major utility that his department regulates emerged, the Hartford Courant reported today. In 2009, Esty received a $7,500 speaker’s fee from United Illuminating, one utility company serving New Haven. In »