Yale Professor Named MacArthur Fellow
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 19--NEW HAVEN -- A Yale University professor who is studying the effects of deforestation around the world has been named a MacArthur Fellow, the MacArthur Foundation announced early today.
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Ms. Vogel, director of the playwriting programs at Brown University, has been appointed the chairwoman of the playwriting department at Yale School of Drama.
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Debora L. Spar, a Harvard Business School professor, will succeed Judith R. Shapiro as the president of Barnard College.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael Jackson, frequently savaged in the tabloid press, was picked apart by more rarified critics as scholars gathered for a conference on the pop star at Yale University...
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Two Americans are sharing this year s Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. Richard Axel and Linda Buck are being recognized for their work studying the biology of the sense of smell.
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Area residents are among 827 students named to the fall semester dean's list at the University of Mary. This number includes students in U-Mary's undergraduate program and in the School of Accelerated and Distance Education.
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Ina unanimous vote yesterday, the trustees of the City University of New York named Stephen B. Shepard, the editor in chief of Business Week, as dean of the university&#39;s new graduate journalism school.
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By Eric Kurhi, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. May 26--Jonathan Wu is an ambitious student. The Monte Vista High School senior is bound for Yale University, he just returned from receiving honors at the White House, and he's going to be the class speaker at his graduation.
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Faculty members who earn Fulbright grants aren't the only ones who benefit, say those familiar with the program.
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By Russ Keen, American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Feb.
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Brandeis University's International Business School in Waltham said it has named economics professor F. Trenery Dolbear Jr. acting dean as it continues a search for a permanent dean. Dolbear, chairman of the economics department and director of the master's program in international economics and finance, succeeds Peter A. Petri , founding dean of the business school, who is beginning a ...
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The work of a professor at the University of Alabama Law School has prompted some other scholars to scour religious texts to explore the moral basis of tax and spending policies.
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THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL / Bill Murphy   Ray Klabouch, a mentor to a group of students the Emma G. Whiteknact Elementary School, in East Providence, shows off a mural he painted as part of the school's scientific courtyard project.
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Yale University said Monday it is joining an expanding group of elite colleges under pressure from parents, lawmakers and alumni to make top schools more affordable to middle-class and upper middle-class families.
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Ken Kennedy, a professor who founded the computer science department at Rice University in 1984 and eventually became one of the world's pioneers in parallel and distributed computing, died last week at 61. Computerworld's Gary Anthes remembers Kennedy.
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Columbia University professor Richard Axel will share the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine with Linda Buck of Seattle&#39;s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for their work on smell.
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UCSD&#39;s Dr. Edward W. Holmes, vice chancellor for health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine, was one of five University of California deans named yesterday to the commission governing the stem cell research institute voters approved this month.