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67 unusual facts about Yale university


147th Reconnaissance Wing

George W. Bush's military service began in 1968 when he enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard after graduating with a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University.

2 Columbus Circle

Tierney said his principal architectural education occurred when he took an undergraduate course with Vincent Scully, now the Sterling professor emeritus of art history at Yale University.

2010–11 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team

On March 8, Princeton defeated Penn to force a one-game playoff at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

2012–13 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team

The 2012–13 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University during the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

2013–14 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team

The 2013–14 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represents Yale University during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

Andrew Hafitz

Andrew Hafitz is a film editor who graduated from Yale University in 1984.

Beza Mahafaly Reserve

The Reserve was founded in 1975, when community leaders formed a partnership with the University of Madagascar (now Antananarivo), Washington University, and Yale University aiming to protect the forest.

Blood on the Fields

Marsalis' management had submitted a "revised version" of "Blood on the Fields" which was "premiered" at Yale University after the composer made seven small changes.

Bonampak

In 1996 a team from Yale University began The Bonampak Documentation Project, which included making an even more detailed study, photographic record, and reproductions of the murals.

Cayo Santiago

Today, the island serves as a research center for the University of Puerto Rico Caribbean Primate Research Center, the National Institutes of Health, Yale University, and Harvard University.

Charles James Freeborn

Charles James Freeborn was a graduate of Yale University in 1899, where he was a member of the St. Elmo Society.

Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond and educated at Scotch College, Yale University, and the University of Melbourne, where for much of his life he has worked, and is now Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre.

Christopher Tunnard

He taught at Yale University for city planning, became more focused on preserving historic buildings, and wrote many books on urban planning.

Christos Papoutsis

Their daughter, Zoi Melina holds a Bachelors degree from the School of Economics and Business of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Master's degree from Yale University .

Deepak Mohanty

He also holds a Master's Degree in Economics from Yale University.

Diamond–Dybvig model

The model, published in 1983 by Douglas W. Diamond of the University of Chicago and Philip H. Dybvig, then of Yale University and now of Washington University in St. Louis, provides a mathematical statement of the idea that an institution with long-maturity assets and short-maturity liabilities may be unstable.

Dorothee Metlitzki

Dorothee Metlitzki (or Devora Metlitsky) (Königsberg, (East Prussia, July 27, 1914 - Berkeley, California, April 14, 2001) was a German born, later American, author and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley and, for most of her career, at Yale University.

Elliott Waters Montroll

Montroll had an exceptionally varied career: was a Sterling Research Fellow at Yale University where his work on the Ising model of a ferromagnet led him to solve certain Markov chain problems.

Gerald L. Geison

Gerald L. Geison went on to earn a doctorate in Yale University's Department of the History of Science and Medicine in 1970 and then joined the Princeton faculty, where he was a professor in the history department and the Program in History of Science.

Harry Simeone

On May 22, 2000, Simeone and his wife, by then living on the Upper East Side of New York City, officially established the Harry and Margaret Simeone Music Scholarship at Yale University by bestowing a gift of US$1 million.

Henry Tang

Henry Tang is commonly believed to have attended Graduate School at Yale University and to have obtained a Master's degree in Sociology.

Horace Greely Prettyman

The trip consisted of four road games in eight days at Wesleyan and Yale in Connecticut, Harvard in Massachusetts, and Stevens Institute in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Hyam Plutzik

Yale University: Prize Poem (J.S. Cook Prize for “The Three”), 1933

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Yale University: Prize Poem (J.S. Cook Prize for “The Purple Rim”), 1941

Hyperbolic quaternion

The Yale University physicist Willard Gibbs had pamphlets with the plus one square in his three-dimensional vector system.

IKEA effect

Official experiment results on the IKEA effect were first published by Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business School, Daniel Mochon of Yale University, and Dan Ariely of Duke University in 2011.

Jake Wade Wall

He attended Yale University but, after a visit to New York City, transferred to New York University; he graduated with a degree in dramatic writing and a minor in philosophy.

James W. Fesler

James W. Fesler was a well-known scholar of public administration, and the Alfred Cowles Professor Emeritus of Government at Yale University.

Jerome Hill

He was educated at Yale, where he drew covers, caricatures and cartoons for campus humor magazine The Yale Record.

Joe Galat

After a tour as an assistant coach in the NCAA at Yale University, Miami University, University of Kentucky and for the NFL’s New York Giants and Houston Oilers, the Painesville native was hired as Head Coach and General Manager of the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League by then owner George Allen.

John Putnam Demos

He retired in December 2008 as the Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University, USA.

José Francisco Ruiz

During this time, he wrote his "Report on the Indian Tribes of Texas in 1828", preserved in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Kamusi project

It started at Yale University (USA) and especially its African Languages Department and is led by its founder and editor, Martin Benjamin.

Louis Whitford Bond

After preparation at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, he took the Select course in the Sheffield Scientific School within Yale University.

Machu Picchu

Most notably, the removal of cultural artifacts by the Bingham expeditions in the early 20th century gave rise to a long-term dispute between the government of Peru and the custodian of the artifacts, Yale University.

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In 1912 and 1914–15, Bingham excavated treasures from Machu Picchu—ceramic vessels, silver statues, jewelry, and human bones—and took them from Peru to Yale University in the United States for further study, supposedly for a period of 18 months.

Martha Constantine-Paton

Prior to joining MIT in 1999 she held faculty appointments at Yale and Princeton.

Murray Barnson Emeneau

From Oxford he arrived at Yale University in 1926, where he took a teaching appointment in Latin.

Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps

Sixty Naval Reserve Freshmen were accepted at each of the original units at the University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University, University of Washington, Harvard University, Yale University, and Georgia Institute of Technology.

New England Interstate Route 10

Route 10 is often called the College Highway because it links Yale University, Trinity College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Amherst College, the University of Massachusetts and Dartmouth College.

Newhall Land and Farming Company

Successive land sales allowed the Newhalls to maintain their lifestyle, but William (who was known by his middle name Mayo), a graduate of Yale University, understood that they needed a better way to generate income.

Nina Berberova

She began her academic career in 1958 when she was hired to teach Russian at Yale.

Notebook of William Blake

The Gates of Paradise, 1825, object 9 Inscribed in graphite lower center: "7. One dies! Alas! the living and dead! One is slain! and one is fled! Blake's 'Key'."
Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Paul Mellon Collection

Nyo Mya

During his years abroad, he worked as a Burmese language lecturer at Yale University's eastern department, as a Burmese language military news broadcaster, publisher of Burma News (1942–43), adviser of Burma in Washington D.C., chief of Burma department of psychological warfare (1944–45) in Ledo, India.

Oszkar Tordai Schilling

Some of his pieces are sought and collected at private and public institutions such as Yale University.

Pocock Racing Shells

George eventually became foreman of the assembly department, Dick became boat-builder for Yale University, and their father returned to England.

Ribozyme

At about the same time, Sidney Altman, a professor at Yale University, was studying the way tRNA molecules are processed in the cell when he and his colleagues isolated an enzyme called RNase-P, which is responsible for conversion of a precursor tRNA into the active tRNA.

Richard Warch

He studied theology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Yale Divinity School in 1964 and a Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University in 1968.

Robin Winks

He was the Randolph Townsend Professor of History at Yale University and Master of Berkeley College at Yale University.

Ryan Lavarnway

He attended Yale University, where in 2007 he won the NCAA batting title by hitting .467, and led the NCAA with an .873 slugging percentage.

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Lavarnway attended Yale University, where he was a philosophy major and played baseball for the Yale Bulldogs in the Ivy League.

Saul Lieberman

Lieberman served as editor in chief of a new critical edition of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (vol. 1, 1964), and as an editor of the Judaica series of Yale University, where he worked closely with Herbert Danby, the Anglican scholar of the Mishnah.

Shadow and Bone

Bardugo studied at Yale University in New York, certain she wanted to be a writer, but then changed her mind after her first year.

Stageworks Theatre

She studied in advanced private classes in New York City with Sandy Meisner (Neighborhood Playhouse), Mira Rostova (Moscow Art Theatre), Wynn Handmann (American Place), and Lloyd Richards (Yale University Drama School).

Stanhope Wood Nixon

He attended Yale University at the Sheffield Scientific School where he was arrested for assault in 1914 when he almost killed Edward H. Evrit with a large metal bolt.

The Young Rajah

At a party celebrating a rowing victory over arch-rival Yale, a jealous Slade calls Amos "yellow" and pours a drink on him, causing Amos to punch him.

Thomas J. Carew

In 1983, he moved to Yale University where he was the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.

Time Out for Lessons

Alfalfa dreams that he is a student at "Hale University" (a spoof of Yale University) and that he is a big football star with poor grades.

Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences

She was succeeded as dean by psychologist Robert J. Sternberg, formerly the IBM Professor of Psychology and Management at Yale University.

Upsala College

Beck, himself a Swedish immigrant to the United States, had received his Ph.D. from Yale University in the previous year and turned down a teaching position at Yale to assume the post at Upsala.

Vespoli

The company’s origins date back to the late 1970s when Mike Vespoli was the freshman rowing coach at Yale University.

VuFind

As of March 2012, a total of 64 institutions are running live instances of Vufind including the Georgia Tech Library, the London School of Economics, the National Library of Ireland, Yale University, and the DC Public Library.

Waiting for Snow in Havana

Professor Eire, who received his PhD from Yale University in 1979, specializes in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe.

Warren Kimbro

Sams testified that national Panther leader Bobby Seale, who had been speaking at Yale University the day before the murder, had personally ordered the killing, but there was no corroborating evidence; the jury in Seale's subsequent trial was unable to reach a verdict, and the prosecution chose not to re-try the case.

X-PLOR

X-PLOR is a software package for computational structural biology originally developed by Axel Brunger at Yale University.

Xylotheque

The xylotheque with a largest number of samples is the Samuel James Record Collection of the Forestry School of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, which houses 60,000 samples.

Yale Seminar

The Yale Seminar took place at Yale University, June 17-28, 1963 to consider the problems facing music education and to propose possible solutions.


Bailey W. Diffie

He began teaching in the City College of New York in 1930, a position he held for thirty-eight years, with visiting professorships to Yale University, New York City University and Columbia University.

Bob Brooke

After graduation, Brooke played for the Yale University men's ice hockey team graduating in 1984 due to his hiatus to play international hockey as a member of the United States national team at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Cathy Schulman

A graduate of Yale University, Schulman's screen credits include Isn't She Great, Sidewalks of New York, Employee of the Month, Crash, The Illusionist, and Darfur Now.

Center for Faulkner Studies

Louis Daniel Brodsky, a native of St. Louis, first studied Faulkner’s novels and stories in 1959 as a student in R. W. B. Lewis's course in American Studies at Yale University.

Christopher Tunnard

He was drafted into the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943 and after the war took a job teaching city planning at Yale.

Complete Works of Shakespeare

(For instance, the Complete Works published by the Arden company is often referred to as the Arden Shakespeare, and the edition produced by Yale University called the Yale Shakespeare.)

David Graeber

Specialising in theories of value and social theory, he was an assistant professor and associate professor of anthropology at Yale University from 1998 to 2007, although Yale controversially declined to rehire him.

Duke Ellington Fellowship Program

The Duke Ellington Fellowship Program is a community based organization which sponsors artists mentoring and performing with Yale University students and young musicians from the New Haven public school system.

Edwin Arthur Kraft

Kraft was born in New Haven and studied music at Yale University under Horatio Parker before becoming became the organist at St. Thomas's Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. He then went to Europe for three years, studying organ with Grunecke in Berlin and Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor in Paris.

Erica Simone Turnipseed

Among her many appearances, Turnipseed has served as a guest lecturer at Spelman College, Medgar Evers College, Baruch College, Midwood High School, and her alma mater, Yale University.

Eriogonum truncatum

The first recorded sighting of Mt. Diablo buckwheat was by William H. Brewer, the first Chair of Agriculture at the Yale University Sheffield Scientific School.

Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

The building is patterned after a building at Yale University (Abraham Baldwin, the University's first president was a Yale alumnus) and is the oldest surviving building at the University and in Athens, Georgia.

Hermione Lee

In the USA, she has been a visiting teaching fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, a Whitney J. Oates Fellow at the Council for the Humanities at Princeton, an Everett Helm visiting fellow at the Lilly Library at the Indiana University at Bloomington, and the Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2004-5.

Jacques van Ypersele de Strihou

He was an assistant at the University of Lovanium of Léopoldville in Congo for some months, after which he went to Yale University, on a NATO-scholarship, where he obtained a PhD in economics under Richard Cooper.

Jamal Millner

As a 5 year old, he appeared playing banjo in a Yale University documentary entitled Banjo Man (now out of print) with musicians Taj Mahal and Afro-Appalachian banjo master Uncle John Homer.

James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

He was a Taylor Lecturer at Oxford University from 1902 and was invited to the United States in 1907 to deliver speeches at the Hispanic Society of America and several American Universities such as Harvard University and Yale University.

Kurt Seligmann

The copius correspondence he maintained during this difficult period is preserved in a collection at the Beinicke Rare Book Library at Yale University.

Linus Yale, Jr.

Linus Yale’s family are of Welsh descent, and his ancestors were of the same family as Elihu Yale, the benefactor to and namesake of the well known Yale University.

Mariette DiChristina

DiChristina is a frequent lecturer and has appeared at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Yale University and New York University among many others.

Marsh Hall

Marsh Hall (Yale University), a building and U.S. National Historic Landmark at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, also known as the Othniel C. Marsh House.

Mountain Vista Governor's School

Top acceptances for the Class of 2011 have included Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Washington University in St. Louis, Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley, Tufts University, and Purdue University.

Pierre Capretz

A graduate of the University of Paris, he began teaching French in 1949 at the University of Florida and joined the faculty of Yale University in 1956, eventually becoming Director of the Language Laboratory and then Director of the Language Development Studio.

Robert B. Stepto

Robert B. Stepto is a literary theorist and professor of African American studies, English and American Studies at Yale University.

Robert Porter Keep

He graduated from Yale University in 1865, was instructor there for two years, was United States consul at Piraeus in Greece in 1869-1871, taught Greek in Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, in 1876-1885, and was principal of Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Connecticut, from 1885 to 1903, the school owing its prosperity to him hardly less than to its founders.

Roberto Sabatino Lopez

He taught for many years at Yale University as a Sterling Professor of History with a great passion also for the history of the Commons in Italy and Europe in general.

Slade Mead

He graduated from Taft School, studied at Yale University, where he was a member of Wolf's Head Society and, for a year in between his undergraduate and law school education, taught high school as well.

St. Lawrence Quartet

It was founded in 1989 and has served residencies at the Juilliard School, Yale University, the University of Toronto, the Hartt School, and Stanford University.

Susanna Styron

She studied at Yale University, majoring in film studies, and, in 1976, she returned to Martha's Vineyard, where she had spent her childhood summers, to make the film, Suspended Sentence, as her senior thesis.

Thom Mayne

He has held teaching positions at many institutions including Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.

Tuple space

Object Spaces, as a computing paradigm, was put forward in the 1980's by David Gelernter at Yale University.

Unica Corporation

Unica has a wide variety of customers ranging from the American Cancer Society to Yale University.

Vapor Apparel

Colombia has also maintained its ranking as one of the top 30 countries on Yale University's EPI index (Environmental Performance Index).

Warren Lyford DeLano

Born in Philadelphia on June 21, 1972, DeLano was educated at Yale University, where he helped produce campus humor magazine The Yale Record.

William Duell

Duell graduated from the Green Mountain Junior College (now Green Mountain College) (Vermont), Illinois Wesleyan University, and Yale University.

Yo-yo effect

Yo-yo dieting or yo-yo effect, also known as weight cycling, is a term "yo-yo dieting" coined by Kelly D. Brownell at Yale University, in reference to the cyclical loss and gain of weight, resembling the up-down motion of a yo-yo.

Zing-Yang Kuo

Kuo was a visiting professor of UC Berkeley, Yale University and the University of Rochester, and a researcher at Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C..