Charlotte Wang
In light of her upcoming re-appointment to the New Haven Homeless Advisory Commission on Monday, Beth Reisfeld ’09, the co-coordinator of the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project, sits down with the News to discuss the state of homelessness in the Elm City. Created in 1999, the commission recommends potential solutions to city homelessness directly […]
City
Charlotte Wang
The recently acquired collection from the research of silent film star turned Egyptologist Natacha Rambova will pave the way for new research, John Darnell, Yale professor of Egyptology, said Monday. More than 40 people gathered in the lecture hall of Sterling Memorial Library to hear Darnell discuss more than 10,000 items that comprise the new […]
Culture
Charlotte Wang
Shifty winds and an unconventional course characterized this weekend’s Marchiando-Friis Team Race, hosted by MIT and Tufts in Cambridge, Mass. The No. 3 Bulldog coed team, which won the event in 2007 and 2008, took third overall, despite posting the most wins during Saturday’s qualifying round of competition. The No. 2 Bulldog women’s team had […]
Charlotte Wang
Despite predictions that the global financial crisis could topple the economic hegemony of the United States, the country will remain the world’s preeminent power at least for the near future, former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso said Monday. Before an audience of about 150, Cardoso — the Brazilian president from 1995 to 2002 and a […]
University
Charlotte Wang
More than 100 scholars of Islamic studies from around the country gathered at Yale this weekend for the eighth annual Critical Islamic Reflections Conference, “Community leadership in American Islam.” Over the course of Saturday’s conference, participants examined the institutions and leaders of America’s Muslim community, and how those leaders could better engage with the next […]
University
Charlotte Wang
In Monday’s Board of Aldermen meeting, the board unanimously passed a resolution to install a sound barrier along the State Street entrance to highway I-91 south. It also passed a resolution approving transfer of funds to provide $160,000 in supplemental operating support to the Tweed New Haven Airport Authority. Ward 23 Alderman Yusuf Shah, chair […]
City
Charlotte Wang
This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. More than 200 Latino alumni from around the country gathered at Yale this weekend for the University’s first-ever Latino Alumni reunion, where participants celebrated the growth of the University’s Latino community and discussed the challenges it still faces. Through roundtable discussions, panels and […]
University
Charlotte Wang
After years of putting in 20-hour days and sleeping only when it was convenient, PepsiCo Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer Indra Nooyi SOM ’80 said at a Pierson College Master’s Tea on Friday that she has effectively worked for the equivalent of 160 years. Climbing to the top of the corporate ladder at PepsiCo has […]
University
Charlotte Wang
For Joshua Viertel, sustainable farming does not only mean picking fruits from orchards and buying them from farmers’ markets. Viertel — the co-founder and former co-director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project and now the president of Slow Food USA, a movement that seeks to encourage Americans to buy local and eat organic — argued […]
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