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  Yale Press Log
Yale University Press has published a catalog in association with the Cleveland Museum of Art to accompany the exhibition, which remains on display at the Met through June 3.
Yale University Press has published a catalog for the exhibition written by Emily Ballew Neff, curator of American Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Arthur Kirsch's Auden and Christianity, published by Yale University Press, is the first book to explore in depth how the poet turned to faith for guidance in his art and his life, despite his early disinterest in religion and his homosexuality.
yalepress.typepad.com /yalepresslog   (2728 words)

  
 Yale University History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Yale's 70 undergraduate majors are primarily focused on a liberal curriculum, and few of the undergraduate departments are pre-professional in nature (even the engineering departments encourage and require students to explore academic disciplines outside of engineering).
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.
Yale, like other Ivy League schools, instituted policies in the early twentieth century designed artificially to increase the proportion of upper-class white Christians of notable families in the student body (see Numerus clausus), and was one of the last of the Ivies to eliminate such preferences, beginning with the class of 1970.
www.ivysport.com /category-category_id/337   (5261 words)

  
 Graduate Program Home Page
Yale's Economics Department offers a challenging and rigorous academic program, a distinguished and accessible faculty, and a friendly, supportive environment for study.
The scope of economics at Yale is evident in the organized research groups within the department and in the affiliation of economists with inter-departmental organizations.
Yale seminars and workshops frequently -- usually at the rate of several outside speakers visiting the department each week.
www.econ.yale.edu /graduate/grad.html   (1484 words)

  
 Yale Alumni Magazine
Recently, the university convened a panel of religious leaders and scholars from outside Yale for advice on the whole of religious life on campus.
A university is a place of inquiry and of respect for different beliefs, a place where people are trying to learn from each other.
More prosaically, Yale's decision to run the Church of Christ in Yale as an ecumenical university church, after it had been affiliated with the national Congregationalist United Church of Christ for four decades, caused disappointment and some bitterness among those in the congregation who liked it how it was.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/2005_05/religion.html   (5541 words)

  
 Yale MBA For Executives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Yale MBA for Executives is a rigorous twenty-two month program that seamlessly blends hard-edged analytical training with an integrative investigation of the regulatory, strategic, financial, and technological issues that define the healthcare sector.
The Yale MBA core provides thorough grounding in accounting, economics, finance, marketing, operations, organizational behavior, political analysis, applied statistics, and strategy, while in parallel, healthcare-specific courses provide a complementary focus on healthcare management and policy.
Managing people effectively is a critical challenge in organizations that have become increasingly decentralized, de-layered and faced with turbulent environments.
www.mba.yale.edu /mba-e/emba_curriculum.shtml   (2200 words)

  
 The Yale Herald - October 31, 2003 - Like dogs playing poker—dogs from Yale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Yale Herald is an undergraduate publication at Yale University.
The Trumbull poker list is, quite literally, a mailing list of people who are interested in playing poker.
The list now boasts roughly 50 to 60 members, with around 30 regular players, a growing number of whom are from other colleges.
www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=2583   (1448 words)

  
 Yale University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yale is noted for its dramatic gothic campus[10] as well as for several iconic modern buildings commonly taught in architectural history survey courses: the Yale Art Gallery[11] and Center for British Art[12] by Louis Kahn, Ingalls Rink and Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges by Eero Saarinen, and the Art and Architecture Building by Paul Rudolph.
Yale's Handsome Dan is believed to be the first live college mascot in America, having been established in 1889.
By the 1990s, Yale reported major drops in crime, claiming to be one of the safest campuses among the Ivy League and other peer schools according to U.S. Department of Education statistics [37].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yale_University   (5717 words)

  
 Yale University Bulldogs, Official Athletic Site
Most people take care of this in the spring or summer of their senior year.
Yale may pay the transportation costs to and from our campus for the prospect, but not the prospects parents, legal guardians or coach.
Once on campus meals, lodging and entertainment comparable to that of normal student life may be provided to the prospect and the prospect's parents or legal guardians.
yalebulldogs.cstv.com /recruiting/yale-recruiting.html   (545 words)

  
 Yale School of Management: Q+ Gay/Straight Alliance
Yale School of Management is part of this rich history and for many years has been known as one of America's most diverse and accepting business schools.
The group recognizes that people are at different stages of coming out--participating in Alliance activities does not mean that you have to be out, or even bisexual, gay, or lesbian.
Its purpose is to foster and encourage an environment at Yale in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people express themselves academically, artistically, socially, and politically.
students.som.yale.edu /sigs/alliance/resources.htm   (517 words)

  
 The Future of Migration - Part One
Topping the list are the huge cross-national inequalities in wages and standards of living.
The second major force that is increasing pressures for migration is the shift in the "optimal" population of various countries due to economic forces.
This article is adapted from a paper he presented at "The Future of Globalization: Explorations in Light of the Recent Turbulence," a conference hosted by the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization on October 10, 2003.
yaleglobal.yale.edu /display.article?id=2760   (1384 words)

  
 UVA - University Relations - Web Guidelines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
University policies governing electronic media, including issues of privacy, ethics, state employees' use of computers, security, network access, can all be found at ITC's University-Wide Policy page or click below for a specific policy.
identify other people in the department who need to be part of the "group" (anyone else who is authorized to make updates to the web pages).
The distinctive appearance of the University of Virginia home page signifies that it is the Internet gateway to the University.
www.virginia.edu /universityrelations/webguide/webguide1.html   (3190 words)

  
 People For the American Way - Yale University Endowment
Professor Kagan (a member of the National Association of Scholars), disturbed by what he perceived to be the corruption of intellectual rigor at Yale by the forces of liberalism, delivered a speech to the N.A.S. that enraged a number of professors and sparked acrimonious debate.
ISI's mission is to ensure that universities teach traditional values and avoid what it regards as "trendy" issues such as feminism, gay and African American studies.
Writing that the Yale "incident spoke volumes about the intellectual and moral bankruptcy that has swept the U.S. academic community," Simon neglects to mention that the campus magazine that "brought to public attention the behind-the-scenes machinations conspiring to destroy the program" was made possible in part by a grant from his own Olin Foundation.
www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=2071   (870 words)

  
 People - CENTURY
Before coming to Yale, Dr. Mande served on the White House staff as a health policy advisor, was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor, and he was senior advisor and executive assistant to the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
Taylor is the principal investigator for a new pilot project on the Effect of nicotine on cue-induced relapse in rats: Role of gender.
He directs the Yale Medications Development Center for substance abuse and is interested in pharmacotherapy for tobacco, stimulant and opioid dependence, as well as neuroimaging of these disorders using SPECT and functional MRI.
www.quitwithyale.org /people/index.html   (2404 words)

  
 People | Creative Commons
She received her BFA in Photography from Texas State University in 2003 but has been active in photography for over 12 years.
She is a co-director of Chlling Effects and sits on the advisory boards of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at University of Ottawa and the Center for Law and Innovation at the University of Maine School of Law.
Heather graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Journalism degree and has a certificate in Telecommunications Policy, Law and Management from the University of the Witwatersrand Link Centre.
creativecommons.org /learn/aboutus/people   (3717 words)

  
 Yale University School of Art: Admissions
Yale University has many departments and schools (including the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which is completely unrelated), so please address all materials properly in order for them to be received by the School of Art.
List your name and area of study at the top and attach an image of one piece represented in your portfolio on an 8-1/2×11 sheet of paper.
An individual’s acceptance of admission to the School of Art must be received by May 15 and must be accompanied by a tuition deposit of $200 (payable to Yale University in the form of a money order or cashier’s check only) to reserve a place in the entering class.
art.yale.edu /Admissions   (2983 words)

  
 Yale University - Faculty of Engineering
The Yale Magnetic Resonance Center (MRC) is located on the main campus of the Yale School of Medicine and occupies approximately 4,000 square feet.
The facility is connected to the Yale New Haven Hospital complex and houses three state-of-the art horizontal bore magnets including 4.7T 31 cm and 7T 20 cm animal systems and a 2.1T 1 m human system which will be replaced in Dec 2000 by a 4T 94cm bore whole body actively shielded magnet (Magnex Scientific).
Yale University has established a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Research Center that is part of the School of Medicine.
www.eng.yale.edu /content/FacilityBiomedicalEngineering.asp   (1202 words)

  
 Fellowship / Grant / Award Information
AWIS newsletters list many fellowships and grants administered by their own and outside organizations.
Each university will receive up to $100,000 per year for the three years of the grant based on performance and availability of funds under the program.
The objectives of this program are to attract outstanding faculty members of institutions of higher education ("universities") to the Navy's research program, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers.
www.cs.yale.edu /homes/tap/fellowships.html   (3792 words)

  
 The M.D.-Ph.D. Program at Yale University
The reasons for pursuing a dual degree are as varied as the backgrounds of the students.
The stipend is taxable income; however, while you are supported on the training grant, Yale does not report these stipends to the respective taxing agencies as income.
Sometimes there are problems getting info distributed to students, so if there is a department whose retreat you don't want to miss, check with the department early in the year to see when they have scheduled their retreat.
www.info.med.yale.edu /mdphd/program   (894 words)

  
 YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
The Société Anonyme Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery is an exceptional anthology of European and American Art from 1920 to 1940.
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery, comprises approximately eighty-five master drawings from the Gallery's collection, providing a survey of European draftsmanship from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness draws upon the collections of American paintings, decorative arts, and prints at the Yale University Art Gallery to illuminate the subtle and multivalent nature of the American experience from the time of the settlements of the late seventeenth century to the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893.
artgallery.yale.edu /pages/collection/exhibitions/ex_traveling.html   (519 words)

  
 IPR People: Kathleen Thelen
She currently serves on the editorial board of the Cambridge University Press Series in Comparative Politics and the boards of several journals, including World Politics, American Journal of Political Science, PS: Political Science and Politics, Governance, Industrielle Beziehungen, Political Science Quarterly, and Economic and Industrial Democracy (Stockholm).
She is also an appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Social Science Research Center of Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) and of the Scientific Committee of the Unità di Recerca sulla Governance Europea (Research Unit on European Governance), of the Collegio Carlo Alberto Foundation of Moncalieri, Turin.
The institutional arrangements governing skill formation are widely seen as constituting a key element in the institutional constellations that define distinctive “varieties of capitalism” across the developed democracies.
www.northwestern.edu /ipr/people/thelen.html   (964 words)

  
 Yale University Library: SCOPA Mentoring Program
The program is primarily targeted at librarians at the L1 or L2 level,and librarian new to the Yale system, but it is open to anyone interested in making connections with their colleagues.
Any Yale Library staff or students who are interested in pursuing or are currently enrolled in graduate studies toward a Masters of Library Science.
A librarian may remove his/her name from the list of prospective mentors at any time, provided that he/she has made arrangements with those that he/she has already agreed to mentor.
www.library.yale.edu /scopa/mentoring/mentoring.html   (635 words)

  
 IPR People: Dorothy Roberts
She also serves on a panel of five national experts that is overseeing foster care reform in Washington State pursuant to a class action settlement agreement.
In 2002-03, she was a Fulbright scholar at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad-Tobago, where she conducted research on family planning policy and on gender, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean.
She is currently conducting research on the significance of the spatial concentration of state supervision of children in African American communities and on the use of race in biomedical research and biotechnology.
www.northwestern.edu /ipr/people/roberts.html   (1017 words)

  
 GNU's Who - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
He is a professor of electrical engineering at Idaho State University (http://www.isu.edu/) with research in analog and mixed signal design and simulation.
Is the author and maintainer of Denemo, a graphical musical score editor that serves as a frontend to GNU Lilypond.
He is presently a senior (fourth-year) undergraduate computer science major at Yale and has accepted a job with Cygnus as a gcc engineer; he will start working there (at Cygnus's Sunnyvale office) shortly after graduating.
www.gnu.org /people/people.html   (4803 words)

  
 Chemistry Safety Manual - Yale University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This document was compiled with the assistance of the Yale Office of Environmental Health and Safety to address issues that have immediate relevance to the Department of Chemistry.
If you are cleaning up a small spill yourself, alert people in the immediate area of the spill and make sure that you are aware of the hazards associated with the material spilled.
Listed below are several issues with which you should be familiar to assure an efficient hood operation.
www.chem.yale.edu /safety/safetymanual.html   (7857 words)

  
 Yale Daily News - Bush puts Levin on postal panel
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After nearly 10 years of overseeing Yale, President Richard Levin has added another item to his list of responsibilities: the United States Postal Service.
Yale Corporation member Roland Betts '68 said Levin will be a great asset to the commission.
www.yaledailynews.com /article.asp?AID=21204   (538 words)

  
 Yale Club of Silicon Valley
Sponsored by the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni and the Association of Yale Alumni, this forum brings together a distinguished group of Yale alumni to discuss the increasing influence and social progress of Asian Americans in film, television, theater, and the media.
The Yale Club of Silicon Valley kicks off its 2007 year with a free reception at the Museum of American Heritage (http://www.moah.org/) in Palo Alto.
We are fortunate to have three Yale trustees, Len Baker, Gerhard Casper, and Donna Dubinsky, living in Silicon Valley, and they have found time in their busy schedules to spend an evening with us to talk about Yale.
www.yalesv.org   (1343 words)

  
 Alan Wolfe, Director   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
(Yale University Press, 2006), Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What it Needs to Do to Recover It (Princeton University Press, 2005), The Transformation of American Religion: How We actually Practice our Faith (Free Press, 2003), and An Intellectual in Public (University of Michigan Press, 2003).
Professor Wolfe attended Temple University as an undergraduate and received his doctorate in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967.
Wolfe currently chairs a task force of the American Political Science Association on "Religion and Democracy in the United States." He serves on the advisory boards of Humanity in Action and the Future of American Democracy Foundation and on the president's advisory board of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/research/rapl/people/awolfe_bio.html   (429 words)

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