New endowed chair honors Marie Borroff

A new endowed professorship has been established in honor of Marie Borroff, distinguished scholar, trained musician, poet and teacher of English literature, announced President Richard C. Levin.
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Initiative to boost humanities-professional school interaction

Peter Brooks, Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature, received a $1.5 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, which will enable him to initiate a dialogue on the teaching of the humanities and professional education.
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Faculty survey to be starting
point for ‘self-evaluation’

Most members of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) say that having the freedom to choose the focus of their own research and the time they spend in the classroom are two of the most satisfying aspects of working at Yale, according to the results of a recently released report of a survey of that group.
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In Focus: Peking-Yale Joint Undergraduate Program

In a term this past fall in the Peking-Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program, Chinese student Jiang Xiaowei learned something that, to her, felt rather peculiar: that being “right” in the classroom is not necessarily more important than being an original thinker.
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Forming bonds in China: Students
hail their immersion experience

O T H E RS T O R I E S

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

• Maggi named inaugural Howard H. Leach Professor

• Meares appointed Walton Hale Hamilton Professor

Yale Press to create digital edition of Soviet leader Stalin’s Personal Archive

Switzerland tops experts’ index of global environmental leaders

Levin urges rededication to Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘dream’

Paula Vogel to head School of Drama’s playwriting department

Study shows elderly with low vitamin E levels are at increased risk of physical decline

Researchers identify key factor in stress effects on the brain

Exhibits explore British artists’ images of the Middle East

Drama School stages Ibsen’s ‘Peer Gynt,’ an exploration of people’s need to dream

Poetry and visual arts are united in library exhibitions’ featured books

Teaching fellowship winners are urged to ‘create passion’

IN MEMORIAM

• H. Bradford Westerfield: Intelligence expert, taught top leaders

• Victor Erlich: Helped bring Slavic department to prominence

• R. Lansing Hicks: Renowned at YDS for his teaching, integrity

• Parker Po-Fei Huang: Poet and pioneer in Chinese language studies

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