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67 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.

2011–12 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team

The 2011–12 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University during the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

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.

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.

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.

Cambridge by-election, 1967

David Lane was an Eton, Cambridge and Yale-educated former barrister who had been working for Shell Oil since 1959.

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).

Charles Musser

Charles Musser (born 16 January 1951) is Professor of Film and American Studies at Yale University.

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

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.

Edward Elbridge Salisbury

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

Electric eel

Researchers at Yale University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology argue artificial cells could be built that not only replicate the electrical behavior of electric eel cells, but also improve on them.

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.

Fairfield County Railroad

Professor Alexander C. Twining of Yale University surveyed a route to follow the Saugatuck River to a spot near Compo Point in Westport and another route to a spot near Wilson's Point in South Norwalk.

Francesco Sacrati

The United States premiere of La finta pazza, and first performance outside Europe, occurred in April 2010 at Yale University.

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.

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.

Hugh Jackson Morgan

Dr. Morgan's son, Hugh J. Morgan Jr, is a former chairman of Sonat; Dr. Morgan's son Robert P. Morgan is a composer and theorist on the faculty of Yale University.

Hyperbolic quaternion

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

Identical Strangers

--NPR: Bernard study ends: 1980, NY stops: 1981--> Neubauer reportedly had Yale University lock away and seal the study until 2066.

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Efforts to have Yale University release the records by the sisters and other twins have failed.

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.

Jerome Hill

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

Kim Kyung-Jun

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

Lady Margaret Boat Club

In 1951, Lady Margaret won the Grand at Henley Royal Regatta and had five members of the successful Cambridge crew, which also defeated Harvard and Yale in the United States.

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.

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

As an American historian employed as a lecturer at Yale University, Bingham had been searching for the city of Vilcabamba, the last Inca refuge during the Spanish conquest.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Paul Bekker

The music library of Yale University houses the Paul Bekker Collection, which contains a variety of letters, documents, receipts, photographs, printed scores and other forms of miscellany, some of which have great historical and musicological value.

Pocock Racing Shells

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

Quasar Equatorial Survey Team

The Quasar Equatorial Survey Team is a joint venture between Yale University, Indiana University, and Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia (CIDA) to photographically survey the sky.

Racquet Club of Philadelphia

The U.S. Squash Hall of Fame was briefly at the club until moving to Yale University.

Revolutionary War Cemetery

St. John Honeywood was a Yale graduate who was the second principal of the local school.

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.

Robert Ng

Ng's eldest daughter Nikki Ng Mien Hua (黃敏華) attended Yale University as an undergraduate, and went on to receive a master's degree from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.

Robin Winks

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Walter Bareiss

He came to the United States in 1937 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business science from Yale University in 1940.

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.

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.

Yale, Michigan

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

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.


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.

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.

Edward Gaylord Bourne

(June 24, 1860 – February 24, 1908) was an American historian, born in Strykersville, New York, and educated at Yale graduating in 1883 with high honors.

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.

Eilardus Westerlo

Among his correspondents, Westerlo numbered the Rev. Ezra Stiles, president of Yale, to whom he frequently wrote in Latin and Hebrew.

Entasis

Yale architectural historian Vincent Scully argues that entasis emphasizes the weight of a building's roof by making the building's columns appear to buckle under the pressure distributed among them.

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.

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara

He has been guest lecturer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Yale University in the U.S., and at many other academic institutions in Europe and Latin American.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Ned Blackhawk

Ned Blackhawk (b. ca. 1970) is a Te-Moak tribe, Western Shoshone American historian currently on the faculty of Yale University.

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.

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.

Oil Thigh

Additional stanzas that have fallen out of popular use made reference to historic victories over Yale University, rival McGill University, and the University of Toronto.

Peter Lorange

Lorange received his undergraduate education from the Norwegian School of Economics, was awarded an MA degree in operations management from Yale University, and his Doctor of Business Administration degree from Harvard University.

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.

Ramachandra Guha

Between 1985 and 2000, he taught at various universities in India, Europe and North America, including the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Stanford University and at Oslo University (Arne Naess chair, 2008), and later at the Indian Institute of Science.

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.

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.

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.

Seymour, Indiana

Sales Manager and Secretary Elbridge Blish Thompson, a Hanover College and Yale University alumnus, lost his life in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

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.

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.

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.

Terri Jentz

She wrote Strange Piece of Paradise, about the attack she and a college friend from Yale University suffered in Cline Falls State Park (in Oregon) in 1977, while on a cross-country bicycle and camping trip and how she, after 15 years, returned to Oregon to investigate the attack and come to terms with the experience.

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.

Unica Corporation

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

Vespoli

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