Updated: Friday, August 8, 2008 at 11:51am
The University has tapped staff from the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute to fill posts in the Yale College Dean’s Office, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry announced in a press release this week. Raymond Ou, currently residence-life and student-activities coordinator at the Peabody Institute, will take over as assistant...
In a sign of what could be in store for Yale’s endowment, Harvard University’s endowment reportedly grew by 7 to 9 percent in the last fiscal year despite the rough economic climate. Citing people familiar with the returns, The Wall Street Journal reported in its Thursday edition that Harvard, with its nation-leading $34.9 billion endowment, is believed to have...
Two female Yale Law School students who were smeared on the Web forum AutoAdmit in 2005 finally know whom they’re suing for defamation — more than a year after they first filed. An amended complaint filed by the two women Tuesday named one defendant, Matthew C. Ryan, a senior math major at the University of Texas, Austin. The other 38 commenters being sued retained...
Anonymous commenting may have just gotten a little less anonymous. With the help of a subpoena issued six months ago, attorneys for two Yale Law School students have succeeded in unmasking several anonymous users of the Web forum AutoAdmit whom the women are suing for defamation. Some of the defendants will finally be named when the students soon file an amended...
Yale Law School’s public-service portfolio scored another boost last week with a $3 million gift from the Minnesota-based Robina Foundation, which will sponsor a human-rights fellowship over the next three years. The grant bolsters the school’s renewed effort to expand its support for public service, unveiled last April after concerns that it had been upstaged by a...
University officials said there is “no merit” to the allegations made in a lawsuit filed two weeks ago by former School of Art student Annabel Osberg ART ’09, who claims she was unfairly expelled from the Master of Fine Arts program in painting and printmaking. Over the past several weeks, Osberg, 19, has told media outlets, including the News, that she is being...
A South Korean appellate court on Tuesday upheld the jail sentence of Shin Jeong-ah, the former Korean art-history professor who faked a Yale doctorate degree. "Shin's allegation that she earned a doctorate degree in the United States proved false," wrote the court, according to The Korea Times. Shin, 36, will now serve 18 months in prison. The ruling comes one year...
Less than a month after it officially embarked upon the addition of two new residential colleges, the University is close to choosing an architect for what will be Yale’s most prized commission in decades. The selection will be announced within a month or so, University President Richard Levin said Sunday. The Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing...
Aliza Shvarts '08 is presenting her latest work in London on Saturday — no, not that one. The world has seen and heard little from Shvarts — whose original senior art project included videotapes of what she claimed were repeated induced miscarriages — since the Yale alumna quietly graduated in May. Now, she's back: in an event sponsored by London's Tate Modern...
Provost Andrew Hamilton has been confirmed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, officially anointing him as the next leader of the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Members of Oxford’s Congregation, the university’s parliament, had until noon Monday to object to Hamilton’s nomination, which was announced June 3. None did so...
