Updated: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 3:34pm
University President Richard Levin needs a right-hand man, a scientist and a successor — and not necessarily in that order. With Provost Andrew Hamilton’s impending departure for the top job at Oxford, Levin needs a No. 2 to help guide the construction of two new residential colleges. He needs someone to help oversee the launch of the West Campus and Yale’s...
As Yale’s most popular interdisciplinary major undergoes a change in leadership, current professors say they hope to make some key changes to the structure of the Ethics, Politics and Economics program to bring some much-needed stability to its faculty roster. Both EP&E director Seyla Benhabib and Director of Undergraduate Studies Jennifer Bair will step down next...
It may be getting harder than it used to be to find a lawyer at Yale Law School. As a legal education becomes increasingly common as preparation for careers in fields other than law, the Law School is expanding its programming and luring new faculty with the goal of reaching out to students interested in pursuing other professions. The phenomenon, which Law School Dean...
Student demand for the services of residential-college writing tutors is at an all-time high. But despite the surge, tutors’ hours will remain capped. The 12 college writing tutors — who are seeing approximately 15 percent more students than they were three years ago — are almost completely booked for the rest of the academic year, Writing Center Director Alfred...
At the beginning of the semester, I was a woman on a mission. I resolved that by May, I would have everything figured out: My major(s) would be decided, my study-abroad plans settled and my GPA reminiscent of high-school glory days. Instead of sticking to the standard name-year-college-major introduction during the first seminars and sections of the semester, I explained...
Richard Lalli MUS ’86 never wanted to be master of one of Yale’s residential colleges. In fact, in his first two decades as an instructor for the School of Music, he barely set foot in them. But when he started teaching undergraduates a few years ago and became a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Lalli — an adjunct professor of music who has taught at Yale since...
The University appointed its first openly gay residential-college master Wednesday, tapping acclaimed singer Richard Lalli MUS ’86 to lead Jonathan Edwards College beginning next year. He will be joined by his partner, Michael Rigsby MED ’88, who will add the designation of associate master to his current title: medical director of Yale University Health Services...
Posted Thursday Dec. 13 University President Richard Levin announced Wednesday the reappointment of Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern for his third consecutive five-year term, effective July 1, 2008. "I am really thrilled to have the confidence of the President, the Corporation, the school, and the many other people I know who were asked whether this...
Effective July 2008, professor of geology and geophysics Derek Briggs will assume the role of director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History for a term of five years, University President Richard Levin announced last week. Briggs will replace professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Michael Donoghue as director. The announcement comes at a time when the museum is...
Posted Wednesday 9:00 p.m. Effective July 2008, professor of geology and geophysics Derek Briggs will assume the role of director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History for a term of five years, University President Richard Levin announced this week. Briggs will replace professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Michael Donoghue as director. The announcement...
The University will welcome its first female dean of engineering in January 2008, President Richard Levin announced this week. T. Kyle Vanderlick, the chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at Princeton University, will replace current Engineering Dean Paul Fleury, who has served in the post for seven years. A chemical engineer who studies interfacial forces —...
Students at the Yale School of Management can look forward to five fresh faces among the faculty this year. Four new ladder-track junior professors are already on campus for the fall: Daylian Cain in organizational behavior, Merle Ederhof in accounting, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak in economics and Oliver Rutz in marketing. Former University of Pennsylvania professor Andrew...
