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'''Yale University''' is a private [[university]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]. Founded in [[ |
'''Yale University''' is a private [[university]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]. Founded in [[1701]], Yale is the [[Colonial Colleges|third-oldest]] [[United States|American]] institution of [[higher education]] (or fourth, if [[St. John's College, Annapolis]] is included) and one of the most prestigious and well-known in the world. The University has graduated numerous [[Nobel Prize]] [[Nobel Prize laureate|laureates]] and [[U.S. President]]s, including William Clinton and George W. Bush. Its $12.7 billion academic endowment is the second largest worldwide (behind only its larger rival, [[Harvard University]]). |
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Yale is one of the eight members of the [[Ivy League]]. The rivalry between Yale and Harvard is long and storied, by far the oldest in the Ivy League; from academics to rowing to college football, their historic competition is similar to [[Oxbridge rivalry|that of Oxford and Cambridge]]. |
Yale is one of the eight members of the [[Ivy League]]. The rivalry between Yale and Harvard is long and storied, by far the oldest in the Ivy League; from academics to rowing to college football, their historic competition is similar to [[Oxbridge rivalry|that of Oxford and Cambridge]]. |
Revision as of 01:53, 5 February 2005
Template:Infobox University2 Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest American institution of higher education (or fourth, if St. John's College, Annapolis is included) and one of the most prestigious and well-known in the world. The University has graduated numerous Nobel Prize laureates and U.S. Presidents, including William Clinton and George W. Bush. Its $12.7 billion academic endowment is the second largest worldwide (behind only its larger rival, Harvard University).
Yale is one of the eight members of the Ivy League. The rivalry between Yale and Harvard is long and storied, by far the oldest in the Ivy League; from academics to rowing to college football, their historic competition is similar to that of Oxford and Cambridge.
Yale's emphasis on undergraduate teaching is unusual among its peer research universities, and its undergraduates live in a unique residential college system. Yale College has produced more Rhodes Scholars than any undergraduate institution save Harvard. Yale's graduate schools include strong drama and arts programs and the most selective law school in the United States. The University has over 3,000 faculty members, with Sterling Professors considered the highest rank.
History
Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School" passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut and dated October 9, 1701, which was furthered by a meeting in Branford, Connecticut by a group of ten Congregationalist ministers, now known collectively as the Founders, who pooled their books to form the school's first library. The school first opened in the home of its first rector, Abraham Pierson in Killingworth, Connecticut. In 1716, the school moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where it remains to this day.
The college was originally known as the Collegiate School; it adopted the name Yale after Cotton Mather, a friend of the Collegiate School because of his feuds with Harvard, contacted Elihu Yale for help (at the behest of either Rector Andrew or Governor Saltonstall). Yale bestowed a generous gift of nine bales of goods (which the school sold, netting over £560, a substantial sum of money at the time), 417 books, and a portrait of King George I. Yale expanded gradually, establishing the Yale Medical School (1810), Yale Divinity School (1822), Yale Law School (1843), Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1847), the Yale School of Fine Arts (1869), and Yale School of Music (1894). In the early 20th century, Yale merged with the Sheffield Scientific School.
Schools and libraries
Yale College, which accepts fewer than 10 percent of its applicants, is one of the most selective colleges in the United States, behind only MIT, Princeton, and Caltech according to the Atlantic Monthly. Yale is also noted for its law school, medical school, graduate school, and school of music. The Yale Divinity School was founded in the early 19th century by Congregationalists who felt that the Harvard Divinity School had become too liberal. The Yale Law School is the most selective in the United States, and has graduated U.S. presidents and Supreme Court justices.
Yale's library system is the second largest in North America with a total of almost 11 million volumes, after Harvard (15 million volumes). The main library, Sterling Memorial Library, contains about 4 million volumes. The Beinecke Rare Book Library is housed in a marble building designed by Gordon Bunshaft, of the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Its courtyard sculptures are by Isamu Noguchi. Other resources include the Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Yale Center for British Art.
Yale supports 35 varsity athletic teams that compete in the Ivy League Conference and the Eastern College Athletic Conference, and Yale is an NCAA Division I member. American football was largely created at Yale by player and coach Walter Camp, who evolved the rules of the game away from rugby and soccer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yale has numerous athletic facilities, including the Payne Whitney Gymnasium, which is one of the largest and most elaborate indoor athletic complexes in the world. The school mascot is "Handsome Dan", the famous Yale bulldog.
The Yale Daily News, the oldest daily college newspaper in the United States, has been a forum for opinion and controversy since 1878, and counts among its former chairmen Joseph Lieberman, William F. Buckley, Jr., and Strobe Talbott. The Yale Political Union is the oldest student political organization in the United States, and is advised by alumni political leaders such as John Kerry, Gerald Ford, and George Pataki. Dwight Hall, an independent, non-profit community service organization, oversees more than 2,000 Yale undergraduates working on more than 60 community service initiatives in New Haven. The Whiffenpoofs began the tradition of college a capella singing groups in 1909, and often perform on television and at the White House.
Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University
Rectors of Yale College (birth-death) (years as rector) 1 Rev. Abraham Pierson (1641-1707) (1701-1707) Collegiate School 2 Rev. Samuel Andrew (1656-1738) (1707-1719) (pro tempore) 3 Rev. Timothy Cutler (1684-1765) (1719-1726) 1718/9: renamed Yale College 4 Rev. Elisha William (1694-1755) (1726-1739) 5 Rev. Thomas Clap (1703-1767) (1740-1745) Presidents of Yale College (birth-death) (years as president) 1 Rev. Thomas Clap (1703-1767) (1745-1766) 2 Rev. Naphtali Daggett (1727-1780) (1766-1777) (pro tempore) 3 Rev. Ezra Stiles (1727-1795) (1778-1795) 4 Timothy Dwight IV (1752-1817) (1795-1817) 5 Jeremiah Day (1773-1867) (1817-1846) 6 Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801-1899) (1846-1871) 7 Noah Porter III (1811-1892) (1871-1886) 8 Timothy Dwight V (1828-1916) (1886-1899) 1887: renamed Yale University 9 Arthur Twining Hadley (1856-1930) (1899-1921) 10 James Rowland Angell (1869-1949) (1921-1937) 11 Charles Seymour (1885-1963) (1937-1951) 12 Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906-1963) (1951-1963) 13 Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919-1988) (1963-1977) 14 Hanna Holborn Gray (1930- ) (1977-1977) (acting) 15 A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938-1989) (1977-1986) 16 Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (1942- ) (1986-1992) 17 Howard R. Lamar (1923- ) (1992-1993) (acting) 18 Richard C. Levin (1947- ) (1993- )
Residential colleges
Yale has a system of 12 residential colleges, instituted in the early 1930s through a grant by Yale graduate Edward S. Harkness, who admired the college system at Oxford and Cambridge. Undergraduate students are accepted by the university as a whole, and assigned to residential colleges at random. (A special dispensation, though, is made for "legacy" students or students with siblings currently enrolled in Yale College; they may request to be placed in the same college or to be placed in a different college.) Each college has a carefully constructed support structure for students, including a Dean, Master, affiliated faculty, and resident Fellows. Each college also features distinctive architecture, secluded courtyards, and rich facilities ranging from libraries to squash courts to darkrooms. While each college at Yale offers its own seminars, social events, and Master's Teas with luminaries from the outside world, Yale students also take part in academic and social programs across the university, and all of Yale's 2,000 courses are open to undergraduates from any college.
Residential colleges are named for important figures or places in university history or notable alumni; they are deliberately not named for benefactors.
Residential Colleges of Yale University (official list):
- Berkeley College [1] - named for the Rt. Rev. George Berkeley (1685-1753), early funder of Yale. Pronounced BERK-lee.
- Branford College [2] - named for Branford, Connecticut, where Yale was briefly located.
- Calhoun College [3] - named for John C. Calhoun, vice-president of the United States.
- Davenport College [4] - named for Rev. John Davenport, the founder of New Haven. Occasionally called "D'port".
- Ezra Stiles College [5] - named for the Rev. Ezra Stiles, a president of Yale. Generally called "Stiles," despite an early-1990s crusade by then-master Traugott Lawler to preserve the use of the full name in everyday speech. Its buildings were designed by Eero Saarinen.
- Jonathan Edwards College [6] - named for theologian and Yale president Jonathan Edwards. Generally called "J.E.".
- Morse College [7] - named for Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse Code. Also designed by Eero Saarinen.
- Pierson College [8] - named for Yale's first rector, Abraham Pierson.
- Saybrook College [9] - named for Old Saybrook, Connecticut, the town in which Yale was founded.
- Silliman College [10] - Yale's largest college, named for noted scientist and Yale professor Benjamin Silliman. Approximately half of its structures were originally part of the Sheffield Scientific School,
- Timothy Dwight College [11] - named for the two Yale presidents of that name, Timothy Dwight IV and Timothy Dwight V. Usually called "T.D."
- Trumbull College [12] - named for Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut.
Other campus buildings
- Sterling Memorial Library
- Harkness Tower
- Woolsey Hall
- Beinecke Rare Book Library
- British Art Center
- Payne Whitney Gymnasium
- Ingalls Rink
- Battell Chapel
- Harkness Hall
- Yale School of Architecture
Benefactors
Yale has had many financial supporters, but some stand out by the magnitude of their contributions. Among those who have made large donations commemorated at the university are:
Famous alumni
Yale alumni are well represented in the ranks of U.S. presidents, including four of the last six: Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, William Clinton, and George W. Bush. Beginning with Peace Corps founder and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sargent Shriver in 1972, at least one Yale graduate has run on either the Democratic or Republican ticket in every presidential election for the past three decades, and both the Democratic and Republican candidates for the 2004 presidential election were Yale graduates: George W. Bush and John Kerry. In the 2004 Democratic primaries, Joe Lieberman and Howard Dean were also Yale graduates.
Nobel laureates
- George Akerlof (B.A. 1962). Economics, 2001
- Raymond Davis. Physics, 2002.
- John F. Enders (B.A. ca. 1921). Physiology or Medicine, 1954.
- John Fenn (Ph.D. ca. 1940). Chemistry, 2002.
- Murray Gell-Mann (B.S. 1948). Physics, 1954.
- Alfred G. Gilman. Physiology or Medicine, 1994.
- Ernest Lawrence (B.S. 1922, Ph.D. 1925). Physics, 1939. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are named for him.
- Joshua Lederberg (Ph.D. 1948). Physiology or Medicine, 1958.
- David Lee (Ph.D. 1959). Physics, 1996.
- Sinclair Lewis (B.A. 1908). Literature, 1930.
- Lars Onsager (Ph.D. 1935). Chemistry, 1968.
- Dickinson Richards. Physiology or Medicine, 1956.
- William Vickrey (B.S. 1935). Economics, 1996.
- George Whipple (A.B. 1900). Physiology or Medicine, 1934.
- Eric Wieschaus (Ph.D.). Physiology or Medicine, 1995.
Technology & innovation
- Francis S. Collins (Ph.D.), director, Human Genome Project
- Lee De Forest (B.S. 1896, Ph.D 1899), inventor of the triode
- W. Edwards Deming (Ph.D. 1928), "total quality management" (TQM) guru
- Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891), economist, "father of monetarism"
- J. Willard Gibbs (1858, Ph.D. 1863), mathematician, physical chemist, thermodynamicist, known for Gibb's Phenomenon
- Grace Hopper (Ph.D. 1934), inventor of COBOL programming language
- Art Laffer (B.A. 1963), economist, best known for the "Laffer Curve"
- Paul D. MacCready, "Engineer of the Century," won the Kremer Prize for first human-powered flying machine, pioneer in solar-powered flight
- Saunders MacLane (B.A. 1930), mathematician, one of the founders of "category theory"
- Jordan Mechner (B.A. 1985), videogame developer, created Prince of Persia
- Stanley Milgram (B.A. 1954), psychologist, Milgram experiment, coined the concept "six degrees of separation"
- Samuel Morse (1810), telegraph pioneer, inventor of Morse code
- Harry Nyquist (Ph.D. 1917), engineer known for the Nyquist theorem
- John Ousterhout, creator of the Tcl programming language
- Ronald Rivest (B.S. 1969), computer scientist, the "R" in the RSA cryptography, 2002 Turing Award receipient
- Benjamin Spock (B.A. 1925), child psychology guru
- Eli Whitney (1792), inventor of the cotton gin
Founders, entrepreneurs, & CEO's
- Robert M. Bass, (B.A. 1971) President, Keystone, Inc.
- John Thomas Daniels, founder, Archer Daniels Midland
- Robert Glaser, (B.A., M.A.) founder & CEO, RealNetworks
- Bing Gordon, co-founder, executive vice-president, and chief creative officer of Electronic Arts
- Roberto Goizueta, former CEO, Coca-Cola (namesake of Emory University's business school)
- Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME Magazine.
- Charles B. Johnson, chairman, Franklin Templeton Investments
- Mitch Kapor, founder, Open Source Applications Foundation, investor (Kapor Enterprises), former founder & CEO, Lotus Software
- Herbert Kohler, chairman & president, Kohler Company
- Clarence King, founder of the US Geological Survey (USGS)
- Edward Lampert, founder & chairman, ESL Investments (hedge fund), bought Kmart, now acquiring Sears
- Henry Luce (B.A. 1920), co-founder of TIME Magazine.
- John Franklyn Mars, CEO, Mars, Incorporated (as in Mars & M&M candy)
- Robert Moses, middle 20th century New York City construction czar
- Gifford Pinchot, founder of the United States Forest Service
- Robert Sargent Shriver III (Law), part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles
- Timothy Perry Shriver, CEO of the Special Olympics
- Frederick W. Smith, founder & CEO, FedEx
- Harold Stanley, founder, Morgan Stanley
- Richard Thalheimer, founder & CEO of The Sharper Image
- Juan Trippe, founder & CEO, Pan Am
- Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser, founder, Weyerhaeuser
Academics
- Richard H. Brodhead, president of Duke University
- Alan Dershowitz, law professor at Harvard University
- Jonathan Dickinson, founder of Princeton University
- Daniel Coit Gilman, first president of Johns Hopkins University
- William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago
- Lawrence Lessig (J.D. 1989), copyright activist, law professor at Stanford University
- Reinhold Niebuhr (DIV 1914), author, theologian
- Camille Paglia (Ph.D.), author of Sexual Personae
- Andrew Dickson White, first president of Cornell University
- Yung Wing, first Chinese person to receive an American college degree
Presidents & Vice Presidents of the United States
- George H. W. Bush (B.A. 1948), President of the United States (1989-1993)
- George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), President of the United States (2001-present)
- Richard B. Cheney*, Vice President of the United States (2001-present)
- William Jefferson Clinton (J.D.), President of the United States (1993-2001)
- Gerald Ford (J.D.), President of the United States (1974-1977)
- William Howard Taft, President of the United States (1909-1913), Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930)
Law & politics
- Dean Acheson, former Secretary of State
- Cecilia Altonaga, federal judge
- John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General (2001-2005), U.S. Senator (1993-2001), Governor of Missouri (1985-1993)
- Les Aspin, Secretary of Defense, U.S. Congressman
- Roger Baldwin, U.S. Senator, Governor
- David Boies, famous lawyer (Microsoft antitrust, Bush v. Gore, Napster v. RIAA)
- David Boren, U.S. Senator
- William F. Buckley, political pundit
- McGeorge Bundy, former Cabinet official
- Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (Law), Mayor of Oakland, California (1999-present), Governor of California (1975-1983)
- John Calhoun, U.S. Vice President, U.S. Senator
- Karl Carstens, President of Germany (1979-1984)
- Hillary Clinton (J.D.), U.S. Senator, New York (2001-present)
- Mark Dayton, U.S. Senator, Minnesota (2000-present)
- Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont (1991-2003)
- William H. Donaldson, Chairman of the S.E.C. (2003-present), co-founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
- David Gergen, political pundit
- Steven Hadley, (J.D. 1972), National Security Adviser
- Nathan Hale, patriot & martyr, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
- James Jeffords, U.S. Senator, Vermont (1989-present)
- John Kerry, U.S. Senator, Massachusetts (1985-present)
- Tony Knowles, Governor of Alaska (1994-2002)
- Paul Krugman, respected economist, Princeton professor, NY Times columnist
- Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senator, Connecticut (1989-present)
- Gary Locke, Governor of Washington (1997-2005)
- John Negroponte, Ambassador to Iraq (2004-present)
- Marvin Olasky, conservative pundit
- George Pataki, Governor of New York (1995-present)
- Clark T. Randt, Jr., U.S. ambassador to China (2001- present)
- Sargent Shriver, main organizer and first director of the Peace Corps. Husband of Eunice Kennedy, and father of Maria Shriver (news journalist and wife of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger).
- Potter Stewart, Supreme Court Justice (1958-1991)
- Robert Taft, Governor of Ohio (1999-present)
- Clarence Thomas (J.D. 1974), Supreme Court Justice (1991-present)
- Byron White, Supreme Court Justice (1962-1993)
- Pete Wilson, Governor of California (1991-1999)
- Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico (1994-2000)
History, literature, art & music
- Hiram Bingham, rediscovered Machu Picchu, Peru
- Harold Bloom, American literary critic
- James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans
- Briton Hadden, co-founder of Time magazine
- Charles Ives (1898), composer, classical music.
- John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace
- Maya Lin (B.A. 1981, M.Arch 1986, honorary Ph.D 1987), architect, best known for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Henry R. Luce, co-founder of TIME magazine
- David McCullough, famous historian, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, best known for his books on American Presidents Harry S. Truman and John Adams.
- Camille Paglia (Ph.D. 1974), cultural critic and feminist scholar
- Cole Porter, composer
- Samantha Power (B.A. 1992), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
- Mark Rothko* (enrolled 1921-23), painter
- Eero Saarinen (B.Arch, 1934), architect
- Robert A. M. Stern, architect, current dean of Yale School of Architecture
- Sergio Troncoso, author of The Nature of Truth, a novel about righteousness and evil, Yale and the Holocaust.
- Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury cartoonist
- Noah Webster, author of the dictionary of the English language
- Thornton Wilder, playwright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the play Our Town
- Naomi Wolf, feminist writer
- Tom Wolfe (PhD), journalist, author of The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Bob Woodward, journalist and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book All the President's Men
Athletics
- Walter Camp (B.A. 1880), the "Father of American Football"
- Theo Epstein (B.A. 1995), became Red Sox general manager at age 28, youngest in Major League Baseball history
- Sarah Hughes (Class of 2008), gold medalist in 2002 Olympic figure skating
- Sada Jacobson (Class of 2006), gold medalist in 2004 Olympic women's saber
- Frank Shorter (B.A. 1969) gold medal (1972) and silver medal (1976), Olympic Marathon
Film
- Angela Bassett, actress
- Jennifer Beals, actress, best known for Flashdance
- Henry Bean, screenwriter/director The Believer
- Jordana Brewster, actress, plays Mia in The Fast and the Furious
- Bruce Cohen, film producer, won an Academy Award for American Beauty
- Michael Cimino, Academy Award-winning director
- Jennifer Connelly*, Academy Award-winning actress
- Claire Danes, actress, recently in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, also in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet opposite Leonardo DiCaprio
- Jodie Foster (B.A. in literature, magna cum laude), Academy Award-winning actress and director
- Paul Giamatti (MFA, 1989), actor. Played "Harvey Pekar" in American Splendor (2003).
- David Alan Grier, actor, comedian
- Kathryn Hahn, actress
- George Roy Hill, Academy Award-winning director
- Holly Hunter, Academy Award-winning actress
- Elia Kazan*, Academy Award-winning director
- Phil LaMarr (B.A. 1989), actor, comedian. As "Marvin", got head shot off by John Travolta in Pulp Fiction
- Ron Livingston, actor. Best known for Office Space, plays "Jack Berger" in Sex and the City
- Frances McDormand (MFA), actress
- Paul Newman, Academy Award-winning actor
- Edward Norton (B.A. 1991), actor
- Bronson Pinchot (B.A. 1981), actor
- Vincent Price, actor
- Gene Siskel (B.A. 1967), movie critic
- Todd Solondz, director Welcome to the Dollhouse & Happiness
- Oliver Stone*, Academy Award-winning director
- Meryl Streep (MFA), Academy Award-winning actress
- John Turturro (MFA), actor
- Sam Waterston, actor
- Sigourney Weaver (MFA), actress
- Jennifer Westfeldt, actress, screenwriter (Kissing Jessica Stein)
Television
- Enrico Colantoni, actor, played womanizing fashion photographer "Elliot DiMauro" on Just Shoot Me and "Mathesar" in the movie Galaxy Quest
- Dick Cavett, TV personality, nominated eleven times for the Emmy Award, and won three times.
- Anderson Cooper, CNN anchor of Anderson Cooper 360°
- Bill Corbett (DRA 1989), actor, writer, played Crow T. Robot in Mystery Science Theater 3000
- David Duchovny (M.A. English literature), actor in The X-Files
- Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports division, helped launch Saturday Night Live
- Sara Gilbert, actress, best known for her portrayal as the daughter "Darlene Conner" on the sit-com Roseanne
- Michael Gross (DRA 1973), actor, best known as "Steven Keaton" (the father of Michael J. Fox's character) on Family Ties
- Leo Laporte*, host of The Screen Savers on TechTV
- Ari Meyers (BA 1991), actress, played Emma McArdle on Kate & Allie
- Chris Noth (MFA), plays "Mr. Big" on Sex and the City
- Stone Phillips, television anchor for NBC
- Robert Picardo, the holographic doctor on the television show Star Trek: Voyager
- David Hyde Pierce, actor, best known as "Dr. Niles Crane" on Frasier
- Steve Skrovan, executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond
- Ben Stein (J.D.), economist, host of Win Ben Stein's Money
- Ming Tsai, chef on East Meets West with Ming Tsai on PBS
- Margaret Warner, co-anchor on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS' weekday news program
- Henry Winkler (MFA), actor, best known as "Fonzie" on Happy Days
Fictional
- "Charles Montgomery Burns", Class of 1914, the owner of the Springfield Nuclear Powerplant in the hit cartoon television series The Simpsons
- "Linus Larrabee", protagonist in the movie Sabrina, played by Humphrey Bogart in 1954 and Harrison Ford in 1995.
- "Dink Stover", hero of Owen Johnson's 1911 Stover at Yale
- "Rory Gilmore", main character of Gilmore Girls
- "Tom Buchanan", antagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
- "Nick Carraway", narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
(* attended but did not graduate from Yale)
Famous professors
Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in italics.
Nobel laureates
- Sidney Altman – Chemistry, 1989.
- James Tobin - Economics, 1981.
Others
- Harold Bloom (Ph.D 1955), writer and critic, author of "Genius"
- Yung-Chi (Tommy) Cheng, pharmacology, inventor of AIDS drug 3TC, known as Epivir.
- Donald Kagan, ancient Greek historian
- Paul Kennedy, historian, author of "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers".
- Harold Hongju Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, in the Clinton Administration
- John Lewis Gaddis, Cold War historian
- David Gelernter (1976), computer scientist, co-creator of the Linda programming language
- Paul Hudak, computer scientist, known for his work on the Haskell programming language, author of "The Haskell School of Expression"
- Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician, known for fractal geometry
- James Mitchell, actor, most known for his role as Palmer Cortlandt on All My Children
- William Nordhaus (1963), economist
- Jaroslav Pelikan, historian, author of "The Christian Tradition"
- William Prusoff, pharmacologist, inventor of AIDS drug d4T, known as Zerit.
- Robert Shiller, economist, author of "Irrational Exuberance", well known for his work in investor psychology
- Jonathan Spence, historian, author of "The Search For Modern China."
Famous on-campus tragedies
Yale's high public profile led to three on-campus bombings. On May 1, 1970, an explosive device was detonated in the Ingalls Rink during events related to the trial of Black Panther Bobby Seale. On June 24, 1993, computer science professor David Gelernter was injured in his office on Hillhouse Avenue by a bomb sent by serial killer and Harvard graduate Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. On May 21, 2003, an explosive device went off at the Yale Law School, damaging two classrooms.
See also
External links
- Yale University
- Yale College, Undergraduate Admissions
- YaleInsider.org
- Yale Law School
- Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
- Yale School of Medicine
- Yale School of Drama
- Yale School of Management
- Yale Herald
- Yale Daily News
- Yale Bookstore
- Official Yale athletics site
- Yale's Society of Orpheus & Bacchus
- The Yale Spizzwinks
- The Yale Whiffenpoofs
- Yale Alumni Magazine
- Federation of Hospital and University Employees, the unions at Yale
- Yale Center for British Art
- Yale-Harvard Game Prank of 2004