When asked to share an anecdote that characterizes Peter Salovey’s four-year tenure as dean of Yale College, Deputy Dean Joseph Gordon does not describe a time when the dean delivered a rousing speech, hosted a fundraising event or recruited a coveted faculty member. Instead, he points to a regular day at the office.
Salovey was using a paper...
Akash Maharaj will serve five years of probation for stealing some $31,000 in Yale financial aid, but he will avoid jail time if he pays the University back in full. The former Morse College junior, who was kicked out of Yale in the summer of 2007 and arrested the following September for forging his application for admission, was sentenced Friday in New Haven Superior...
Could the choice of a traditional architect to build Yale’s two new residential colleges actually betray the University’s tradition? That’s what some critics are arguing one day after University President Richard Levin announced that he had tapped Robert A.M. Stern, the staid architect and dean of the School of Architecture, to design colleges 13 and 14. In...
It was the piece that ended Raymond Ou’s piano career. Over a decade later, it was the piece that brought him to Yale. In 1992, a nervous 17-year-old seeking a spot at Baltimore’s elite Peabody Institute, Ou chose as his audition piece Maurice Ravel’s “Gaspard de la Nuit,” often called the world’s hardest piece to play. For Ou — whom the Yale College...
The new JE dining hall has made its debut — and was even more crowded than Amy Arnsten’s “Brain and Thought” lecture. Some students complained of crowds, noise and a chaotic servery layout. Things got slippery in Ezra Stiles last night. A pipe burst in Entryway I, flooding some rooms and common spaces. The closure of the L-Dub gate for...
A move just one block down Grove Street may well be a move almost entirely out of the daily lives of the student body — and undergraduates are worried. Yale College Dean Peter Salovey is, after all, one of the most recognizable faces on campus. What is it, then, that students are hoping for in their new dean, who will be selected over the next month by a search...
For weeks, Barbara Golden and Deborah Oswalt tried to see two of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous paintings, which were on display at the Yale University Art Gallery for the summer. But every time they tried, they were turned away because of the crowds. Last night, the two friends, who are New Haven residents, got that chance at the fourth-annual open house held by the...
Robert A.M. Stern ARC ’65, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, has been commissioned to design Yale’s 13th and 14th residential colleges, the News has learned. University President Richard Levin confirmed the appointment when reached at home Wednesday night. A public announcement is scheduled for today, Levin said. “He’s the ideal person to do this...
After the recent collapse of an ambitious digitization project, most of Yale’s books will remain exclusively on shelves — at least for now. In May, only seven months into what was supposed to be an 18-month-long effort to put images of 100,000 of Yale’s libraries’ books on the Web, Microsoft unexpectedly withdrew funding from its partnership with the University...
Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Cypresses have been drawing crowds of up to 1,200 a day to the Yale University Art Gallery since the iconic paintings’ arrival on June 15, museum security guards said. The exhibits run until Sept. 7. The venerable Harold Bloom, 78, is alive and well — and teaching. The noted literary critic was spotted standing...
Six years ago, Josh Viertel dreamed of bringing more sustainable food to Yale’s dining halls. Now, he is setting his sights on a bigger target: America. Viertel, a co-director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, will resign his post at Yale in October to accept a newly created position as president of Slow Food USA, a nonprofit organization working nationally to...
