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53 unusual facts about 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.

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.

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.

Bongoût

Their artists books are in numerous prestigious museums and collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University's Fine Art library in Cambridge, MA, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University "Art of the Book" Collection (Sterling Library), New Haven, CT.

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.

Chana Timoner

Indeed, when Elie Wiesel once addressed a large Jewish gathering at Yale University and made an impassioned reference to "the six million", Rabbi Timoner, who was sitting on the first row, stood and rebuked him for not including the other oppressed groups who died in the gas chambers (such as Roma).

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.

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

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.

Edward Elbridge Salisbury

Salisbury graduated from Yale University in 1832 and was appointed Professor of Arabic and Sanskrit there in 1841.

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.

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.

Government General Hospital, Chennai

Governor Sir Elihu Yale (the initial benefactor of the world-renowned Yale University) was instrumental in the development of the Hospital and gave it new premises within the Fort in 1690.

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.

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 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.

James Edwards Rains

A benefactor lent him $400 to attend Yale, where he graduated second in the Class of 1854 at Yale Law School.

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 Noorthouck

John Russell Smith in London, April 1852, offered for sale an unprinted autobiography by Noorthouck; it was later acquired by Yale University.

John Putnam Demos

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

Kamusi project

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

Kim Kyung-Jun

Kim attended Rutherford High School and The Juilliard School, then went on to Yale University to do a professional performance certificate.

Lamaze Infant Development System

The toys are developed in collaboration with Jerome and Dorothy Singer, psychologists at Yale University.

Lisa Wang

After being accepted into Yale University Early Action, Wang decided to defer matriculation for a year in order to continue training.

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.

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.

Martha Constantine-Paton

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

Michaela Paetsch

She studied first with her parents since the age of three with Priscilla and Gunther Paetsch, then with Ivan Galamian at Meadowmount and later with Szymon Goldberg at Yale University and at the Curtis Institute of Music.

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.

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

Oszkar Tordai Schilling

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

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.

Salisbury Journal

The Beinecke Library of Yale University owns an almost unbroken run of the Journal, from No. 1, 27 November 1736 to the end of the eighteenth century.

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 Flower Drum Song

C. Y. Lee fled war-torn China in the 1940s and came to the United States, where he attended Yale University's playwriting program, graduating in 1947 with an M.F.A. degree.

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.

Toronto Huskies

After four games with interim coaches (Hayman coached one game, and Huskies player Dick Fitzgerald ruled the bench for three games), Hayman hired former Major League Baseball player Red Rolfe, who had also been coach of Yale University's basketball team.

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.

Virginio Rognoni

He studied at Yale University between 1949 and 1950 and also worked as a lawyer.

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.

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, Michigan

However, in 1889, it was renamed Yale at the suggestion of B. R. Noble, honoring Yale University.


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.

Alejandro Planchart

He was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and moved to the United States to study at Yale University, where he received the degrees of Mus.B.

Alfred Métraux

In 1940, upon his return to the United States from South America, he was in residence at Yale University with a renewal of his Guggenheim Fellowship.

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.

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.

Charles James Freeborn

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

Christopher Wilkins

Wilkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts where by 1978 he obtained bachelor's degree from Harvard College He studied with German-born conductor named Otto-Werner Mueller while being enrolled into Yale University and got his Master of Music degree from there by 1981.

Cross product

Oliver Heaviside in England and Josiah Willard Gibbs, a professor at Yale University in Connecticut, also felt that quaternion methods were too cumbersome, often requiring the scalar or vector part of a result to be extracted.

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.

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.

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.

Harvard Square

The 1970 film Love Story, by the late Harvard alumnus and Yale University professor of classics Erich Segal, takes place almost entirely in and around Harvard Square during its first two-thirds, while Harvard undergraduates Oliver Barrett and Jenny Cavalieri meet; finish college; get married; and Oliver goes to Harvard Law School while Jenny teaches school, living in a second-story walk-up in what looks like Watertown.

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.

James Rowland Angell

He remained president of Yale University his retirement in 1937, at which point he became educational counselor of the National Broadcasting Company.

John Francisco Richards II

He graduated with BA from Yale University in 1917, where he was the circulation manager of campus humor magazine The Yale Record.

John H. Healey

Healey earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Yale University and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

Kan'ichi Asakawa

He lectured at Dartmouth College in 1902; was a professor at Waseda University (1906–07); an instructor at Yale University (1907–10); and became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1910.

Liang Tsai-Ping

While at Yale University in 1945-46, he introduced a performance on the "China Program" with the American writer Emily Hahn, on DuMont Television.

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.

Louis W. Goodman

Prior to assuming this position, he directed the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Latin America and Caribbean Program at the Social Science Research Council and served on the faculty of Yale University’s Sociology Department.

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.

Mark Levinson

The company was originally based in New Haven, Connecticut, where Mark Levinson had begun to develop high end audio systems; his father was a professor at Yale University.

Michael Grace Phipps

Michael Phipps studied at St. Bernard's School and St. Paul's School before going on to Yale University.

Ming Tatt Cheah

Born and raised in Malaysia, Cheah attended Chung Ling High School and later moved to the US, where he attended Yale University and graduated with an M.S./B.S. degree in four years.

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.

Murray Barnson Emeneau

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

Nenad Ban

His interest in large macromolecular assemblies led him for his postdoctoral work to the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University where he determined the atomic structure of the large ribosomal subunit by X-ray crystallography, as part of the group in the laboratory of Thomas A. Steitz.

Nina Berberova

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

Nonie Darwish

She has spoken on numerous college campuses including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Tufts, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Oxford, Cornell, UCLA, NYU, Virginia Tech, Pepperdine, UC Berkeley and several others.

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.

R. Owen Williams

He was awarded the Raoul Berger Fellowship at Harvard Law School, the Samuel Golieb Fellowship at the New York University School of Law, the Fletcher Jones Fellowship at the Huntington Library, the Legal History Fellowship at Yale Law School, and the Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship in history at Yale University.

Richard Lints

He has also taught at Trinity College in Bristol, England, and from 1999-2000 he was Visiting Professor at Yale University.

Robert B. Stepto

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

Shlomo Avineri

Avineri has had numerous visiting appointments including Yale University, Wesleyan University, Australian National University, Cornell University, University of California, The Queen's College, Oxford, Northwestern University, Cardozo School of Law, and Oxford and, most recently, the University of Toronto.

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.

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.

Vespoli

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

Ystoria Mongalorum

A manuscript of a variant of the Ystoria, written by Minorite friar C. de Bridia, perhaps based on Joannes's lectures, appeared on the art market in the 1950s and was purchased for Yale University.