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May 29, 2024 · Yale University has appointed Maurie McInnis ’96 Ph.D. to serve as its 24th president. McInnis, now president of Stony Brook University, was the unanimous choice of the Yale Board of Trustees, Josh Bekenstein ’80, senior trustee and chair of the presidential search committee, said Wednesday in a message to the Yale community.

Dec 20, 2024 · At Yale, 2024 was a year of transformation and renewal. The university welcomed a new president, Maurie McInnis, an accomplished scholar, university leader, and alumna who first arrived on campus as a graduate student in 1989, and celebrated her predecessor, Peter Salovey, who returned to the faculty full-time after 11 years as Yale’s leader.

Jun 27, 2024 · Under President Salovey’s leadership, Yale has launched bold initiatives and built key infrastructure to create a collaborative campus environment for data-driven social science that is being used to guide domestic policy, address climate change and other pressing global challenges, and which seeks to understand human cognition, values, and behavior.

Jan 10, 2024 · This growth, along with a robust financial aid budget, expanded outreach and targeted communications that highlight affordability, and a ‘whole-person’ admissions process that considers potential broadly, has brought measurable changes in the makeup of the student body: with the increase in the number of matriculated students, the number of first-year students eligible for Federal Pell ...

Oct 2, 2024 · The overall project is vast, covering 16 acres — or nearly half — of Science Hill. It will transform research programs, help attract more of the best scientists and students, lower Yale’s energy use, and accelerate discoveries across a range of fields, from quantum computing and materials science to electrical engineering and high energy physics.

4 days ago · Yale College, the undergraduate school of Yale University, will increase its class size by 100 students per year beginning this fall with the entering Class of 2029, university leaders said Tuesday. The increase will result in a total of 1,650 students per class and, over time, a total undergraduate ...

Aug 15, 2024 · Research at Yale doesn’t take the summer off to hike in the Alps or sit by the pool reading a good book. Rather, it is a perpetual engine of innovation and discovery.

Aug 20, 2024 · Speaking to incoming graduate students earlier in the day, during the annual Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) matriculation ceremony, McInnis drew on her experiences as a former Yale student, and as a fourth-generation educator, to discuss the important influence of teachers.And she urged students to always remain curious.

Sep 25, 2024 · Yale’s top leaders on Tuesday kicked off a four-day summit in New York that underscores the university’s commitment to addressing the climate crisis and its ability to engage people across realms of expertise to do research and provide tools that advance solutions to environmental threats.