As legislation providing for a federal cap on greenhouse-gas emissions died in the U.S. Senate on Friday, University President Richard Levin warned that Congress’ failure to tackle the issue of climate change sends the wrong message to other global powers. Democratic leaders pulled the landmark measure, which would have aimed to reduce carbon emission about 70 percent...
Close to a decade ago, Yale University set out on a mission: to acquire a few two-story houses tucked near the corner of Prospect and Canal streets. University administrators did not want the houses. They wanted the land on which the houses stood, because they forecasted erecting two new residential colleges there at some point in the future. And this year, that...
In a bizarre, Internet-fueled conflagration, University President Richard Levin became the target of an angry letter-writing campaign from conservative Christians on Wednesday over what he says was a misquotation in a Washington Post column. In Wednesday’s edition of the Post, columnist Michael Gerson wrote that at a panel discussion last week as part of the launch of...
With her diminutive frame, pixie-cut salt-and-pepper hair and crisp black wardrobe, Jane Levin does not stand out in a typical Yale crowd. But as the wife of Yale’s 22nd president and director of undergraduate studies for Directed Studies, the selective freshman humanities program, Levin is a University power player who does more than just stand by her man — although...
To University President Richard Levin, the American research university is not just an educational institution. No, it is a “highly effective instrument of U.S. foreign policy,” as he explained Wednesday in a speech to the Foreign Policy Association in New York City. That “provocative hypothesis” was the basis of Levin’s remarks, which centered on the role of...
He is only one day removed from celebrating the 15th anniversary of his appointment to the Yale’s top post, but University President Richard Levin is taking no time to celebrate — for there are speeches to be given. Levin, the longest serving president in the Ivy League, will travel to New York City today to deliver what will be his third high-profile speaking...
Fifteen years ago today, a 46-year-old economist put on a fine suit, tucked a speech in his pocket and headed to the Sterling Memorial Library. Richard Levin, the newly appointed dean of the Graduate School, was getting another promotion. His new title: President of the University. And as Levin put it Monday, “It was quite a thrill.” In the life of an institution as...
Amid growing pressure from students and others in the Yale community to speak out on the subject, University President Richard Levin has disclosed that he “expressed concern” last week to a top Chinese official about the recent instability in Tibet. Levin, who has forged close ties with the Chinese government in recent years as part of his effort to transform Yale...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In testimony before a Senate panel Thursday, University President Richard Levin called on the federal government to enact legislation limiting greenhouse gas emissions. “Our future depends on it,” he said. The hearing came...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Walking into a wood-paneled hearing room on Thursday morning, University President Richard Levin turned to a reporter who had traveled here to observe his testimony before a Senate panel. We’ll be lucky if there’s more than one senator in attendance, he said. Don’t expect too much. Little did he know what Sen. Larry Craig had in store for...
Days after announcing that Yale will host a national conference on climate change in April, University President Richard Levin has confirmed he will testify this week before the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee as Congress prepares to take up debate on a bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions. Levin, who has made sustainability one of his...
Days after announcing that Yale will host a national conference on climate change in April, University President Richard Levin has confirmed that he will testify next week in front of the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee as Congress prepares to take up debate on a bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions. Levin, who has made sustainability one...
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