Updated: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 3:34pm
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...
In an effort to meet increasing student demand for upper-level writing classes and bolster the writing concentration, the English department is augmenting current offerings in both fiction and nonfiction writing classes, English Director of Undergraduate Studies Lawrence Manley said this week. The size of the writing faculty — currently totalling about 14 — will also...
Five current junior faculty members at Yale were awarded tenure Wednesday afternoon by the Joint Boards of Yale College and the Graduate School. In a move that Yale College Dean Peter Salovey said “brings diversity on many dimensions” to the University’s senior faculty, political scientist Gregory Huber, historian Jennifer Klein, linguist Maria Pinango, biologist...
A survey of junior faculty members’ opinions on the mentoring — or lack thereof — they receive from senior faculty at the University is accelerating efforts to formalize the mentoring process. In a survey published this month by the Provost’s Office, 58 percent of junior faculty members said they do not feel they have received adequate mentoring at Yale. The...
When she conceptualized the freshman seminar “The Engineering of Ice Cream,” Kyle Vanderlick, then the chair of Princeton’s Chemical Engineering Department, was looking for a way to get college students excited about the possibilities of engineering. The introductory-level engineering course packed in all the basics — everything from the thermodynamics of...
Paula Vogel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning director of the playwriting programs at Brown University, will join the Yale School of Drama under a five-year contract as adjunct Eugene O’Neill Professor and the chair of the Department of Playwriting, the school announced last week. Vogel — who is known for plays including “How I Learned to Drive” and “The Long...
Religious Studies professor Carlos Eire GRD ’79 doesn’t usually dabble in politics. “I run from conflict and confrontation,” Eire said during a phone interview Sunday. “I served as chair of the Religious Studies Department here for three years, and that was more than I could take. I’m not the kind of person who likes to deal with conflict and stress.” Odd...
Posted Saturday Dec. 15 Operating for the first time under the revamped tenure system instituted by the faculty last semester, a committee voted to grant tenure to three professors on Thursday. Eckart Frahm, an Assyriologist in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Frank Slack, a professor in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, and...
Starting next year, the crowd at the now scantly attended monthly Yale College faculty meetings may grow a bit bigger. At its last meeting of the fall semester Thursday afternoon, College faculty members unanimously decided to extend voting rights at future faculty meetings to full-time lectors and lecturers on multi-year contracts, in addition to all junior and senior...
Professors looking to take advantage of their allotted leave to raise young children may currently find the process more confusing than they first anticipated — thanks to what the Women Faculty Forum is calling a “bureaucratic lag.” Although the Provost’s Office announced a change to the faculty’s child care leave policy more than three years ago, the new...
More than 100 students, faculty members and other Yale affiliates packed into Sudler Hall on Tuesday night for “The History of Hate,” the first of at least four panels planned by administrators to analyze hate from various academic perspectives. For 90 minutes, the audience members listened as four University history professors explored the origins of hate speech and...
Yale Investments Office czar David Swensen ’76 GRD ’80 received a $1.1 million raise in 2005, increasing his salary to more than three times that of University President Richard Levin, according to Yale’s most recent federal tax filings. Swensen, who earned $2.7 million, was among three Yale employees with a paycheck over $1 million. Levin’s 2005 salary of...
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