Notes from Woodbridge Hall Archive: 2014

President Salovey regularly shares his reflections and reports on his activities in this message to the Yale community.

November 24, 2014

Those of you who follow my writings closely (if you’ll indulge me in imagining that) will have seen this message in your inboxes and thought: aha...

November 10, 2014

If you have attended Yale’s annual Veterans Day ceremony in the past, you will understand why I count it among the most beautiful and moving...

October 27, 2014

One of my favorite things about Yale is our deep sense of community—so deep it seems to be in our very DNA. I touched on this, in a very local...

October 13, 2014

When Marta and I moved into our quarters within 43 Hillhouse Avenue last month with Portia, our Havanese, we became the newest members of a...

September 29, 2014

Last Thursday I took a day off for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. Although my schedule has been filled with on-campus events and meetings—and...

September 15, 2014

With the academic year now underway, Marta and I are looking forward to attending Yale athletic events and supporting our student-athletes. On...

September 2, 2014

With the reopening of the Sterling Memorial Library nave, I feel as if we have welcomed an old friend back to campus – and that friend has had an...

August 18, 2014

This is one of my favorite weeks of the year at Yale, as summer winds down and we prepare to welcome new and returning students and faculty. There...

August 4, 2014

Summer gives me a little time to catch up on reading, and among the pieces that caught my eye recently was an article in The New Yorker ...

July 21, 2014

I was recently thinking about last fall’s Freshman Address, because right now I am working on this year’s Address. Although it seems as if we just...

July 7, 2014

I hope you and your families had a relaxing Fourth of July weekend. Marta and I were able to take a little break that included yesterday’s ball...

June 16, 2014

Emilio Botín is the chairman of Banco Santander, and last week I accompanied him and the leadership team of his Universia Foundation to the Yale...