Paul Needham
Before Yale visit, Blair to appear on Letterman tonight

Tony Blair will arrive at Yale this evening for his first visit of the semester — but not before stopping by David Letterman’s studio in […]

Profs avoid SMARTs

Justin Neuman, an assistant professor of English, had Herculean plans for his first section of the “European Literary Tradition” this year. He wanted to use […]

Prepping for swine flu, version 2.0

If all those e-mails about swine flu aren’t enough for you, then watch this new video from the University. In the video, Vice President and […]

Yale’s donor dollars dwindle

That Yale secured enough donations to continue with its renovation of the Art Gallery’s facilities came as a lone bright spot after a difficult year […]

Conservative alums criticize Yale Press

Correction Appended A group of prominent conservative alumni has joined the chorus of critics of Yale’s decision to remove caricatures of Muhammad from an upcoming […]

With demolition, it’s not easy being green

Preservationists also have raised concerns about the environmental cost of demolishing buildings, which creates mountains of waste. Patrick Pinnell ’71 ARC ’74, a critic of […]

Yale sticks to demolition plans

As Yale prepares to demolish some of the buildings on the site of the two new residential colleges this fall, state officials and local preservationists […]

Q&A | Negroponte ’60 discusses cartoons

When the Yale University Press was faced with the decision of whether to reprint the caricatures of the prophet Muhammad that are at the center […]

Connecticut court to hear Yale-Peru case

The lawsuit that Peru filed against Yale in December moved closer to New Haven this summer when a federal judge in Washington ruled that his […]

Omission of cartoons stirs conflict

A book slated to be published by the Yale University Press about violent controversy stirred some academic controversy of its own this summer. After the […]

Plans for new colleges solidified

A scattering of buildings just north of the Grove Street Cemetery now have signs posted to their doors that say, in bold capital letters, “This […]