Emily Bakemeier, deputy provost for arts and humanities, was named a charter trustee for Dartmouth College on Friday. Bakemeier, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1982, was on the search committee last year for Dartmouth’s new president, Philip Hanlon, and served as the youngest and first female president of the Darmouth Alumni Council in the early »
President Barack Obama nominated Yale law visiting professor and Quinnipiac law professor Jeffrey Meyer ’85 LAW ’89 for a federal judgeship last Friday, the Associated Press reported. If confirmed by the Senate, Meyer will fill a vacant position on Connecticut’s federal bench. Connecticut Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy said in a statement that they will »
Following President Barack Obama’s Wednesday announcement of Susan Rice as his new top national security adviser, Samantha Power ’92 has been named to take on Rice’s former role as United States ambassador to the United Nations. Power, who began her career as a journalist covering the Yugoslav Wars and later served as the founding executive »
A 15-month restoration project of the Sterling Memorial nave, the expansive atrium that greets visitors upon entry to the building, began today, University Librarian Susan Gibbons announced in an email to the Yale community Monday morning. The construction process will restore the nave’s full interior, including its stained glass windows, stonework and woodwork and will »
Richard Gilder ’54 and his wife, Lois Chiles, donated the $20 million gift that will fund the upcoming renovation of the Sterling Memorial Library nave. The renovation of the entrance hall of the library — known as “the nave” because of its resemblance to a cathedral — was announced in fall 2011 after the Yale »