Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 7, 2008|Volume 36, Number 21|Two-Week Issue

Campus Notes

Football player earns NCAA postgraduate scholarship

Alan Kimball, who recently finished his senior season on the Yale football team, has been awarded a 2007-2008 NCAA postgraduate scholarship.

Fifty-eight NCAA student-athletes have been awarded educational grants through its postgraduate scholarship program. The winners receive one-time, non-renewable grants of $7,500.

Kimball was the only Ivy Leaguer picked among 11 football players. He was Academic All-Ivy and a semifinalist for the Draddy Award, the nation’s top football scholar, while winning the Chester LaRoche and Ledyard Mitchell awards at the 2007 Yale team banquet. He also earned District I ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District honors while carrying a 3.97 GPA in history.

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Yale study offers revolutionary view of ecosystem ecology

USA Today honors students for their work ‘beyond the classroom’

Amar and Crothers cited for teaching and scholarship

Yale expert on elections helped to monitor ‘historic’ vote in Pakistan

Yale-developed artificial cell helps immune system fight cancer

Divinity School professor to head Union Theological Seminary

Lavik lauded for innovation, leadership

Liman Colloquium to examine public interest advocacy . . .

Library staff wins Noah Webster Award for . . .

Campus Notes