While you were away: Yale's top summer stories revisited
Even as students took a break from academics, Yale remained as busy as ever this summer. From new faculty appointments to repurposing a miracle arthritis drug to Connecticut’s largest U.S. naturalization ceremony, there was plenty to talk about since Commencement. Catch up with some of the summer’s hottest stories and discover new ones at YaleNews.
Appointments
New alumni fellow elected: Dr. Eve Rice, author, psychiatrist, philanthropist
Stephen Murphy named vice president for finance and chief financial officer
Ann Kurth, expert in global health, to be the next dean at Yale School of Nursing
New directors named for three cultural centers
Sarah E. Insley to be next dean of Branford College
Endowed professorship appointments
Alan Kazdin as Sterling Professor of Psychology
Dr. Hal Blumenfeld as the Mark Loughridge and Michele Williams Professor of Neurology
Elizabeth H. Bradley as the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy
Margaret Clark as the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology
Alison Galvani as the Burnett and Stender Families Professor of Public Health
Jung Han as the Norton Professor in Technological Innovation
David Skelly as the Oastler Professor of Ecology
Honors
George H.W. Bush honored by student leaders with an award for lifetime achievement
President Salovey honored by the American Psychological Association
Yale CIO David Swensen awarded Frankel Fiduciary Prize
Elimelech wins 2015 Eni Award for ‘Protection of the Environment’
Yale affiliates win Tony Awards
Five alumni to be honored at annual alumni assembly for their service to Yale
Campus & Community
9 for 9: Yale meets commitments to increase college opportunity and socio-economic diversity
Campus hosts Connecticut’s largest-ever U.S. naturalization ceremony
From service to school: Yale to partner with Vetlink to strengthen pipeline of veterans to college
Yale alumni played key roles on road to Supreme Court same-sex marriage decision
State-of-the-art conservation on view at formal dedication of Cultural Heritage laboratory
Alumnus Karl Franz Williams to raise Anchor once again (the bar, that is)
Five tales of summer in the city by Yale President’s Public Service Fellows
Alumnus artist Titus Kaphar creates, connects, and builds community in New Haven
'Rise' at Ezra Stiles: Original contemporary African artwork unveiled
Arts & Humanities
Henry VIII, Cromwell, and Anne Boleyn: Yale's Tudor treasures
Hidden secrets of Yale’s 1491 world map revealed via multispectral imaging
Yale’s legacy in ‘Jurassic World’
American Revolution history made tangible in Yale collections
Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’ at Yale: creating a masterwork one feather at a time
Warrior-Scholar Project: From the battlefield to the classroom
Yale School of Music and New Haven Public Schools: Changing lives through music-making
Psychologist’s memoir is a tale of misdiagnosis, mistreatment, and healing
You’d never know it wasn’t Bach (or even human)
Science & Medicine
Ancient snakes — a new hiss-tory
The adolescent brain develops differently in bipolar disorder
Best dads on the planet? Let’s start with these little guys
Eyeing top performance? Look to the pupil
Electricity’s human cost: Less sleep
For vitiligo patient, arthritis drug restores skin color
Yale team finds why BRCA gene resists cancer treatment
For astronomer, an insect is as worthy of observation as the cosmos
Astronomers find a massive black hole that outgrew its galaxy
Yale researchers beat untreatable eczema with arthritis drug
Study reveals what the world thinks of climate change
Yale study identifies ‘major player’ in skin cancer genes
Dust pillars of destruction reveal impact of cosmic wind on galaxy evolution
Understanding the firefly’s glow
Making ‘miniature brains’ from skin cells to better understand autism
Yale leads NIH-funded autism biomarkers study of pre-school and school-aged children
International
Yale and University of Puerto Rico team to create new M.D.-Ph.D.s
Doctors practicing asylum medicine look for scars of persecution
Study reveals what the world thinks of climate change
Chronicles of disaster: Hiroshima in the Yale University Library archives
Obamamania in Kenya: the view from Nairobi
Faculty Q&As
Douglas McKee and Edward O’Neill: learning a thing or two from the Teach Better Podcast
Medical Dean Robert Alpern: decreases in federal research funding
Joanne Freeman: The Redcoats are coming — to New Haven, that is
Costas Meghir: on the Greek debt crisis
Dirk Bergemann: Amazon at 20 — the online retail giant’s impact
John Mack Faragher: on gunfights, U.S. colonialism, and studying the American West on the East Coast
Paul Bracken: putting the Iran nuclear deal in context
Eitan Hersh: how campaigns use data to target voters
In Memoriam
Linda H. Peterson, noted scholar and writing mentor
Joni Barnett, former director of physical education, community relations
Harold W. Scheffler, anthropologist illuminated fundamental patterns of kinship
Robert A. ('Bo') Burt, studied questions of religious culture and law
