News highlights

With your support, the Yale Tomorrow campaign is helping to advance the University’s mission of education, research, and the preservation of knowledge. Read on for the latest news about the campaign and its impact on faculty and students around campus.

  • Kang-i Sun Chang, the inaugural Malcolm G. Chace ’56 Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, is a scholar of classical Chinese literature. (Nov. 19, 2009) Read more.
  • Ralph Lauren has established a professorship in memory of architect Charles Gwathmey. (Nov. 17, 2009) Read more.
  • On Thursday, October 29, more than 100 members of the Calhoun College community gathered to celebrate the renewal of their beloved residential college. (Nov. 11, 2009) Read more.
  • Rosenkranz Hall, the newest academic building to grace Yale’s campus, was officially dedicated at a ceremony honoring Yale benefactors Robert Rosenkranz ’62 and his wife, Alexandra Munroe. (Nov. 9, 2009) Read more.
  • On October 16, Yale dedicated the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical, and Engineering Sciences. (Oct. 30, 2009) Read more.
  • Oluwadamilola Oladeru ’11 wanted to receive a well-rounded liberal arts education and to participate in a strong biology program. So she came to Yale. (Oct. 28, 2009) Read more.
  • Donors Joel ’54 and Joan Smilow joined with Yale and city leaders October 21 to dedicate the Smilow Cancer Hospital. (Oct. 23, 2009) Read more.
  • With the continued support of generous donors, Morse College became the eleventh residential college to undergo renovation beginning in May 2009. Read more. (Oct. 20, 2009)
  • A cohort of eleven students, the first participants in a new Bulldogs program, returned to Yale this September sharing a novel perspective of Israel. Read more. (Oct. 16, 2009)
  • Pritzker-Prize laureate and Yale School of Architecture alumnus Norman Foster and his family have donated $3 million to Yale School of Architecture to fund a visiting professorship in his name. Read more. (Oct. 8, 2009)
  • Yale’s Thomas Steitz is one of three winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Read more. (October 2009)
  • Thanks to Dr. Abigail E. Disney ’82 and her husband, Pierre N. Hauser II ’82, students from developing countries have an opportunity to study at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Read more. (Oct. 8, 2009)
  • On September 21, 2009, Yale University welcomed Maurice Greenberg and other guests to the dedication of a new facility made possible through his leadership gift to Yale. Read more. (Oct. 2, 2009)
  • Robert J. Schoelkopf, professor and researcher in the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, is noted for his work on quantum transport, single-electron devices, and charge dynamics in nanostructures. Read more. (June 19, 2009)
  • The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded $125,000 to Yale biomedical engineers Mark Saltzman and Michael Levene for research aiming to overcome obstacles to drug delivery in regions of the brain affected by Parkinson’s disease (PD). (June 2, 2009) Read more.
  • The Yale Tomorrow campaign supports sweeping changes now under way for science and engineering at Yale. Read more on the Science and Engineering page. (Sept. 19, 2008)
  • Yale Tomorrow hosts gatherings of alumni, parents, and friends from around the world. Now, an online scrapbook chronicles these Campaign events and milestones. Read more. (January 17, 2008)
 
 
November 19, 2009