Summary
Yale University is the third oldest college in the country, founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School in New Haven, CT. It is one of eight "Ivy League" schoolsfounded as an athletic conference but now associated with academic excellence, super-competitive admissions and a culture of elitism. Several U.S. presidentsincluding George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush are Yale graduates. The number of students applying to Yale goes up each year, along with the number of applicants turned away. Just 9 percent of the 21,000 students who applied for the freshman class of 2006-2007 got in. Yale's professional schools, in art, architecture, law, forestry and environmental studies, business and medicine are t...
Yale University is the third oldest college in the country, founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School in New Haven, CT. It is one of eight "Ivy League" schoolsfounded as an athletic conference but now associated with academic excellence, super-competitive admissions and a culture of elitism. Several U.S. presidentsincluding George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush are Yale graduates. The number of students applying to Yale goes up each year, along with the number of applicants turned away. Just 9 percent of the 21,000 students who applied for the freshman class of 2006-2007 got in. Yale's professional schools, in art, architecture, law, forestry and environmental studies, business and medicine are top-rated programs in their field. The Yale Law School has turned out judges, presidents and heads of state, including President Bill Clinton, New York senator Hillary Clinton and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The Yale School of Drama has left a comparable mark on the entertainment industry. Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep and Henry Winkler are all graduates. After Harvard, Yale has the second largest college endowment in the country, at nearly $23 billion. Yale and its affiliated teaching hospital, Yale-New Haven Hospital, are the top two employers in New Haven. Its combined libraries hold 12 million books. Yale has 3,400 faculty members; 5,300 undergraduate students and 6,100 graduate students.
» Search within 340 items
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-20
>
340 items on Yale University
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-20
>
-
'The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library' by Marcus Tanner
Special to The TimesJuly 25, 2008 Henry E. Huntington once quipped that "the ownership of a fine library is the surest and swiftest way to immortality" -- words that certainly applied to the remarkable rare-books repository that the California railroad baron built in San...Tags: Death and Dying, Books and Magazines, California, San Marino, Book
-
Review: 'The Hamburger: A History' by Josh Ozersky
The Associated PressTHE HAMBURGER: A History, by Josh Ozersky. Yale University Press, 160 pp., $22. In writing an ode to a single food, it takes a deft hand to straddle the narrative strands of cultural, culinary and business history and place it all into context....Tags: Morgan Spurlock, New York, History, Ray Kroc
-
USS Indianapolis survivor, executive
Chicago Tribune reporterHerbert Jay "Jack" Miner II was 19 and had been a radio technician aboard the USS Indianapolis for just 13 days when the cruiser was hit by Japanese torpedoes and sunk. Floating in the South Pacific for four days, Mr. Miner was one of 317 men, out of a...Tags: Glencoe, Evanston, Lake Forest, Skokie, Bill Clinton
-
Robert Wilson
Sun ReporterRobert J.M. Wilson, former president of Adams Express Co. and of Petroleum & Resources Corp., who as a youth participated in the historic Fahnestock Expedition to the South Pacific, died of pneumonia Wednesday at the Charlestown Retirement Community. He...Tags: Retirement, Robert Wilson, New York, Government, Maryland
-
Vytorin study sends makers' stock plunging
Tribune wire reportsTRENTON, N.J. _ A major European study in patients with heart valve disease found the drug Vytorin didn't prevent worsening of the disease or lower the need for surgery, sending its makers' stock plunging. Results of a preliminary analysis of the just-...Tags: Diseases, Heart Disease, Sales, Medical Staff, Health and Safety at School
-
High-Cost Funerals: Help And Alternatives Are Available
Courant Staff WriterWhen Latoya McKithan died last month, desperation piled on top of grief when her family realized she had no life insurance to pay the funeral costs. Her sister, Hazel Flowers, knew all too well how expensive funerals can get: Their mother died just eight...Tags: Medical Research, Society, Death and Dying, Religious Leaders, Colleges and Universities
-
Low-carb diet beats rivals in weight loss, cholesterol
ATLANTA - A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques. A bigger surprise: The low-carb diet...Tags: Obesity, Medical Research, Diet, Illnesses, Health Treatments
-
Detective looks for subject of Jovin's last e-mail
Investigators looking into the decade-old slaying of a Yale student are asking for help finding someone she wrote about in the last e-mail sent before her death. In a note written in German at 9:02 p.m., Dec. 4, 1998, Suzanne Jovin promised a friend she...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Police, Police Investigations
-
'Swan Peak' by James Lee Burke
Special to The TimesJuly 19, 2008 Every year about this time, I eagerly await the latest novel from the pen of James Lee Burke, and if I'm lucky, it will be an adventure featuring the New Iberia, La., deputy sheriff Dave Robicheaux, for my money the best continuing...Tags: Texas, Montana, Bodies of Water, Colleges and Universities, Rivers
-
Major study affirms Atkins diet
Associated PressThe Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques....Tags: Obesity, Medical Research, Diseases, Diet, Health Organizations
Jul 24, 2008
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jul 20, 2008
|Story| Newsday
Jul 22, 2008
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jul 22, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jul 21, 2008
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jul 20, 2008
|Story| Hartford Courant
Jul 17, 2008
|Story| Newsday
Jul 16, 2008
|Story| Associated Press
Jul 18, 2008
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jul 17, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Original site for Yale University topic gallery.
