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 Yale University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 and Harvard have for most of their history been rivals in almost everything, notably academics, rowing, and football.
Yale, like other Ivy League schools, instituted policies in the early twentieth century designed to artificially 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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yale_University   (4085 words)

  
 Encyclopedia topic: Yale University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yale University is a private university (Establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching) in New Haven, Connecticut (additional info and facts about New Haven, Connecticut).
Yale is one of the eight members of the Ivy League (A league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige).
Yale's library system is the second largest in North America (A continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama) with a total of almost 11 million volumes, after Harvard (15 million volumes).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/ya/yale_university.htm   (5594 words)

  
 Yale (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yale University, one of the United States' oldest universities.
Yale, British Columbia, one of the two "capitals" of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and the namesake of:
Yale (mythical creature), a creature in European mythology.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yale   (256 words)

  
 Surgery at Yale School of Medicine
Profiles of Yale Surgeons Our surgeons perform a wide variety of operations, including heart and lung, endocrine, breast, cancer, bariatric (morbid obesity), gastrointestinal, craniofacial and reconstructive, urologic, colorectal, abdominal organ transplant, trauma, vascular and endovascular.
Yale Surgery's mission is to provide surgery for children and adults with the least pain, trauma, scarring and recovery time.
Yale Surgery also performs innovative basic, clinical and translational research, and offers unparalleled educational opportunities to medical students, residents and fellows.
yalesurgery.med.yale.edu   (239 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Elihu Yale, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
The family moved to England c.1652, and Yale was educated in London.
In 1718, Cotton Mather wrote Yale suggesting that the Collegiate School at Saybrook, Conn., might be named for him in return for financial support.
Yale donated a parcel of goods, which when sold brought £562 : the largest single gift to the college before 1837.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Y/Yale-Eli.html   (292 words)

  
 Yale University | Admissions Facts and Statistics
Yale University is located in New Haven, Connecticut, a historic, small New England city about two hours north of New York.
However, Yale University is also a highly esteemed research university, having produced Nobel laureates in economics, physics, chemistry, and medicine.
Yale University has a long tradition of public service, with faculty, officers, and alumni who have served (and continue to serve) in government, education, business, and non-profit ventures.
www.admissionsconsultants.com /college/yale.asp   (396 words)

  
 Guide to the Yale University Divinity School Memorabilia (Record Group No. 53): Finding Aid
The Yale University Divinity School was formed as a separate department of the University in 1822.
Following the chronological folders are some topical folders: Yale alumni in foreign missions, 1701-1921, Methodist YDS graduates, 1930-1959; Occupational statistics of early Yale College graduates; Ph.D.s in field of religion, 1930-1960; Wisconsin Association of YDS alumni minute-book, 1900-1934.
For instance, the Yale Divinity News is a continuation of Yale Divinity Quarterly and most recently, the publication formerly known as "The Dial", is now the "Q-Source".
webtext.library.yale.edu /xml2html/divinity.053.con.html   (2203 words)

  
 Plastic Surgery Residency: Education - Yale Surgery
The first 3 years of residency are spent in the Yale General Surgery Residency.
The Yale Craniofacial Program is a multi-specialty programmatic effort dealing with congenital, traumatic, tumor, and vascular anomaly involvement in the craniofacial region.
The Yale Skin Bank’s mission is the recovery, preservation and distribution of life-saving, viable allograft skin to burn centers worldwide.
yalesurgery.med.yale.edu /surgery_educ/plastic.html   (583 words)

  
 Computer Science at Yale University
Brian Scassellati's work with robots for children at risk of autism has been featured in an article in "Australian IT".
Yale sent three teams to the Greater New York Regionals of the ACM Collegiate Programming Contest, held at Kean College (Union, NJ) on November 20th.
It was a time for former graduate and undergraduate computer science students and past faculty and researchers from all eras to get together and renew old friendships, make new contacts, and enjoy the beauty of Yale’s buildings and grounds.
www.cs.yale.edu   (311 words)

  
 General Clinical Research Centers at Yale
At Yale’s General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) we study the causes of diseases and search for cures.
The Yale GCRC is part of a nationwide network of Centers funded by the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health to promote advanced medical research.
The Principal Investigator of the Yale GCRC is Robert Alpern, M.D., Dean of Yale Medical School.
www.gcrc.yale.edu   (98 words)

  
 ITG:
All Yale SOM students are required to own a laptop computer.
We evaluate your laptop's specifications for compatibility and supportability at Yale SOM and advise you by e-mail of our opinion.
The Yale SOM-IT Group does not give or lend software/media for installation on student laptops.
www.som.yale.edu /itg/laptop/faqs.asp   (783 words)

  
 Yale Engineering Home Page
Engineering began at Yale in 1852 with a course on civil engineering.
Yale awarded the first engineering Ph.D. in the United States.
The recipient was J. Willard Gibbs 1858 B.S., 1863 Ph.D., who would become one of this country's greatest scientists.
www.eng.yale.edu   (124 words)

  
 Yale, Michigan - InfoMI.com
This village on Mill Creek was founded in 1851 by Nathan White as Brockway Center.
However, in 1889, it was renamed Yale at the suggestion of B. Noble, honoring Yale University.
Yale has been the home of first-class bologna makers since 1906.
www.infomi.com /city/yale   (96 words)

  
 Yale University Bulldogs, Official Athletic Site
After a short break for the holiday, the Bulldogs close out the 2005 portion of the schedule with their first trip to Texas since falling at SMU on Jan, 6, 1997.
Yale meets James Madison in the first round of the Flint Hills Islander Classic in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Thursday at 7 p.m.
The Bulldogs finally have an Olympian to call their own after Resor was one of 20 players introduced as part of Team USA's roster for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games Tuesday afternoon.
yalebulldogs.collegesports.com   (265 words)

  
 Yale-Europe
Prior to coming to Yale College she attended a school at the foot of the Himalayas in northern India.
This is one of the oldest special collections at Yale, and contains first editions and other rare literary texts in German from approximately 1600 through the mid-20th century, with scattered holdings of earlier authors.
Signe Kant (left) from the National Library of Estonia in Tallinn, Estonia, is shown during her four months fellowship with the Slavic and East European Collection at Yale.
world.yale.edu /regions/europe.html   (190 words)

  
 Yale School of Nursing Home Page
Yale Nursing Matters received the 2005 Pinnacle Award from Sigma Theta Tau International, the honor society of nursing.
Yale, Harvard and others to collaborate on study of behavior therapy for adults with Tourette syndrome
Yale researchers, led by Principal Investigator Lawrence Scahill, MSN, PhD, launched the four year study on October 1, 2005.
nursing.yale.edu   (445 words)

  
 Yale School of Management - Application Deadlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
If the primary language of instruction at your undergraduate or graduate institution was not English, you must submit a TOEFL score.
Request that ETS send your official scores directly to Yale using the Yale School of Management ETS code, 3986.
The Yale School of Management website is produced by the Office of External Relations.
mba.yale.edu /mba_admissions/applications/ad_deadlines.shtml   (362 words)

  
 Yale: Cardiovascular Medicine: Home
The Section of Cardiovascular Medicine of the Yale University School of Medicine shares in the academic mission of one of the world’s leading centers in biomedical research.
The center encompasses the diverse research and clinical activities of the Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale Medical Group, Yale School of Public Health and other allied programs.
The nearby West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center is the second teaching hospital and offers a wealth of clinical and research opportunities and is totally integrated with other parts of the school.
cardio.med.yale.edu   (116 words)

  
 Will Goetzmann's Home Page
A new interdisciplinary research center at Yale for the study of Finance.
The ICF sponsors a number of academic conferences during the year on current issues in Finance.
It provides data to its fellows for research and fosters intellectual interaction among scholars at Yale and in other schools who work on Financial issues.
viking.som.yale.edu   (1870 words)

  
 YaleDailyNews.com
Three weeks before the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito LAW '75 officially begin, a collective of Yale Law School faculty and students has concluded that the federal judge tends to rule in favor of institutional powers...
Sociocultural anthropology professor David Graeber, a self-described anarchist whose contract was not renewed by the University last spring, announced Wednesday that he has withdrawn his petition to remain at Yale in exchange for a year's paid...
A meeting Tuesday between the chair of Yale's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility and representatives from the Graduate Employees and Students Organization yielded no immediate progress in GESO's push for divestment from private prison...
www.yaledailynews.com   (333 words)

  
 Forklifts - Yale Materials Handling - Lift trucks, forklifts and hand trucks.
Forklifts - Yale Materials Handling - Lift trucks, forklifts and hand trucks.
Yale is a leading provider of a full line of high-quality, high-performance Lift Trucks (Forklifts), Rental Services, Fleet Management, Financial Services,
Forklift Replacement Parts and Service, and Operator Training for use in all kinds of industrial applications.
www.yale.com   (49 words)

  
 YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
Jessica Sack, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Associate Curator for Public Education, leads the Gallery's development of family programs and teaching resources for K–12 teachers and students.
Prior to coming to Yale, Jessica was the senior museum educator and coordinator of teacher services at the Brooklyn Museum.
She is the author of teacher resource publications such as Picturing a Nation: Teaching with American Art and Material Culture.
artgallery.yale.edu /pages/info/res_k12.html   (273 words)

  
 Yale Center for Medical Informatics
The Center focuses on the creative use of computers in clinical medicine, molecular biology, neuroscience, and other areas of biomedical research.
The Center also serves as a focal point for training in biomedical informatics with a Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
In addition, we participate actively in Yale's recently created interdepartmental PhD program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
ycmi.med.yale.edu   (99 words)

  
 Yale
1965 "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson
1938 A Bartlett Giamatti, born in Boston, President of Yale and baseball commissioner, 1989
1891 Irene Coit is 1st woman admitted to Yale University
www.brainyhistory.com /topics/y/yale.html   (336 words)

  
 Morris: the Law Library Catalog
Welcome to MORRIS: Catalog for Yale Law School Library
Search the Law Library's holdings for books, eBooks, digital records, images, periodicals, and more.
AccessLaw (combined catalog of Yale, NYU, Columbia and others)
ringding.law.yale.edu   (79 words)

  
 Department of Astronomy Yale University
Saturn's Rings and Moons As Seen By Cassini
July 18, 2005 (continuing through July 22) Yale Summer Workshop on Basic Astrometric Methods.
January 01, 2004 Job Openings at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (More)
www.astro.yale.edu   (211 words)

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