Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 28, 2003|Volume 31, Number 20

The new Yale and the World website will serve as a central resource on the University's many international programs.

New website showcases Yale's global initiatives

A major website highlighting Yale's global presence ,and making the University's international initiatives more accessible is being launched this week by the Secretary's Office.

The website, Yale and the World (located at www.world.yale.edu), offers a gateway to the global aspects of the University. It will be a useful resource for current Yale students and faculty, prospective students outside of the United States, Yale's alumni around the world, and researchers or media representatives interested in international affairs.

Vice President and University Secretary Linda Lorimer said, "I am grateful to the many faculty and administrators who contributed to this project. I want to acknowledge particularly Professor Gustav Ranis, director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, for suggesting that such a website be created."

The website brings together information that was scattered throughout Yale's various websites with a brand new database of international research. "Having all this information in one place, searchable in a number of different ways makes this site a powerful resource for those both at Yale and around the world," Lorimer said.

Yale and the World contains information and links for international students applying to Yale College and the University's graduate and professional schools, as well as a collection of resources for Yale students and faculty interested in the University's international agenda.

The website, which is organized both by geographical region and by topic, gives Yale students ready access to all of the University's international resources and activities -- including scholarships for overseas study, relevant courses and programs, library and museum collections, and services for Yale's international community.

The site was also designed to assist alumni living overseas in building stronger relationships for Yale abroad and to help with recruiting prospective students.

A significant feature of the site is a database cataloguing ongoing research by Yale faculty and scholars that is either international in nature or has implications overseas.

"This database is really one of the first of its kind for a university," noted Brett Gale, associate director in the Secretary's Office, who worked with Donald Filer, associate secretary, to develop the website.

"We hope that it will serve as a resource for researchers in universities around the world. We expect that it will help develop and foster collaborations between Yale faculty and researchers doing similar work in other international institutions," he added.

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