Julia Zorthian
Staff Reporter
julia.zorthian@yale.edu
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JULIA ZORTHIAN
Cory Booker LAW ’97 named Class Day speaker

Newark Mayor Cory Booker LAW ’97 will travel from New Jersey to New Haven on May 19 to deliver the Class Day speech to seniors […]

February 11, 2013

JACOB WOLF-SOROKIN & JULIA ZORTHIAN
Professor of four decades dies at 92

Edward Stankiewicz, a Holocaust survivor who joined the Yale faculty in 1971 and pioneered the field of Slavic linguistics, died on Jan. 31 of cardiac arrest.

February 11, 2013

JULIA ZORTHIAN
Fake Peter Salovey apologizes to community

At first glance, the email Yale students received this morning looked like another normal update from President-elect Peter Salovey. As the Salovey imposter’s message, however, […]

February 9, 2013

JULIA ZORTHIAN
Salovey launches president-elect website

The perks of President-elect Peter Salovey’s new position keep piling up: First came the email address, president.elect@yale.edu, from which Salovey emailed the community in November. […]

February 6, 2013

JULIA ZORTHIAN
Panel addresses lack of faculty diversity

Administrators and faculty convened for a panel to discuss the reasons why a university with a diverse undergraduate body has a faculty overwhelmingly composed of white males.

February 5, 2013

JULIA ZORTHIAN
Psychology professor Brownell named dean of Duke

Psychology professor Kelly Brownell will leave the University after this semester to become the dean of Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke President […]

January 30, 2013

JULIA ZORTHIAN
Salovey holds staff town hall

Over 500 staff members packed into the pews of Battell Chapel Tuesday morning for a town hall convened by President-elect Peter Salovey, who answered questions on staff development and acknowledged concerns he plans to address as president.

January 30, 2013

JULIA ZORTHIAN
Dept of Defense training center proposed

The Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine may open a training center with the U.S. Army Special Operations Command.

January 28, 2013

NICOLE NAREA & JULIA ZORTHIAN
Darnell suspension rattles Egyptology

When John Darnell agreed to a one-year suspension from the Yale faculty, he left the Egyptology division of NELC without a chair and with just one full-time faculty member.

January 25, 2013

NICOLE NAREA & JULIA ZORTHIAN
NELC work environment criticized

Two sources close to the department said they approached administrators about a “hostile work environment” in the department as early as 2010.

January 23, 2013

NICOLE NAREA & JULIA ZORTHIAN
Details emerge about Darnell suspension

A week after John Darnell's resignation, details on his violations of University policy and suspension from the Yale faculty have begun to emerge.

January 17, 2013