Alumni in the News

Ralph Dawson Honored by Yale

Excerpted from YAA press release: Since its inception, the Yale Medal, the highest honor presented by the Yale Alumni Association, has been presented to more than 300 individuals who have shown extraordinary devotion to Yale’s ideals and demonstrated their support through extensive, exemplary…

September 14, 2021

Jim Kaplan Featured on NYC History Podcast

Check out Jim's fascinating account of the Wall Street bull statue: https://soundcloud.com/obudmore/extra-edition12-jim-kaplanthe-historians

June 19, 2020

Rothman to Royal Society

From the June/July 2019 issue of Medicine@Yale: "James Rothman, PhD, chair and Sterling Professor Cell Biology, and professor of chemistry [in addition to being Yale College 1971 BR], has been named to the Royal Society. a fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists, and the oldest…

September 3, 2019

Jim Rothman Q&A April 1 on @YaleLive

From news.yale.edu: "James E. Rothman has plenty to say about life in science — and plenty to show for it, including a 2013 Nobel Prize. Now’s your chance to ask what he thinks, wherever in the world you are. The acclaimed cell biologist is scheduled to appear Tuesday, April 1 on @YaleLive, the…

March 25, 2014

Jim Rothman Shares Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Congratulations!! to Jim Rothman---how cool is this? From nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize…

October 7, 2013

Roz Milstein Meyer Wins Elm Award

Roz Milstein Meyer received an Elm Award at a recent ceremony honoring members of the New Haven and Yale communities for their efforts to sustain and strengthen the two communities. As noted in an online article in the Yale Daily Bulletin: "Yale University President Richard C. Levin and New Haven…

April 29, 2011

Shelley Fisher Fishkin Named Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities at Stanford

Congratulations to Shelley Fisher Fishkin on her recent appointment to a named chair in Humanities at Stanford. The university's Clayman Institute for Gender Studies announces: Current Clayman Faculty Research Fellow Shelley Fisher Fishkin was named the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities…

January 27, 2011

Mike Hearn to Head Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Asian Art

Congratulations to Mike Hearn on being named to head the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An article by Grace Patuwo in the Yale Daily News of January 12, 2011 reports: The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced yesterday that Maxwell (Mike) Hearn '71 has been chosen as the…

January 27, 2011

Eileen Shim Again Named Henry Scholar

Congratulations to Ji Hye (Eileen) Shim '12, who won scholarship support last year from the William A. Henry III '71 Scholarship Fund and has been named a Henry Scholar again this year. Carol Hobbs, Yale's Recording Secretary, wrote recently to Gail Henry: For 2010-2011, the Henry Fund is again…

October 25, 2010

Jim Rothman Wins Kavli Prize

Congratulations to Jim Rothman on winning the Kavli Prize in neuroscience. In a June 3 article on the Yale Daily News Cross Campus website, Carol Hsin writes: "Biomedical sciences, cell biology and chemistry professor James Rothman '71 is a recipient of the prestigious $1 million Kavli Prize in…

June 7, 2010