Notes from Woodbridge Hall Archive: 2015

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

October 26, 2015

I recently returned to New Haven from a trip overseas that took me first to Singapore (to participate in an inspiring...

September 28, 2015

It’s no secret that I am a supporter of Yale’s sports teams and individual scholar-athletes. In season, on many weekends, you can find Marta and...

September 14, 2015

One of my hopes in writing these fortnightly notes is that they will, in some small way, do their part to foster the “more unified Yale” that I...

August 31, 2015

Two days ago, in Woolsey Hall, Dean Jonathan Holloway and I welcomed the Yale College Class of 2019 to campus. It was my eighth speech at a...

August 17, 2015

During my five years as a dean (first of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and then of Yale College), the end of August was a time for...

July 27, 2015

Did you know that the #1 most-visited place in Connecticut by a schoolchild is Yale’s Peabody Museum? Earlier this month the New York Times gave a...

July 6, 2015

What does a university president do for a summer break? I can’t speak for my Ivy League peers, but for me, the real start of the season is...

June 15, 2015

As the Yale campus switches gears for the summer—and before we rush headlong into planning for the new academic year—I invite you to join me...

June 1, 2015

The two Yale reunion weekends each spring are a whirlwind of the best kind...

May 18, 2015

What a Commencement weekend it has been—with the main event still to come! Yale...

May 4, 2015

As we charge toward the end of the spring semester, this is the season for special occasions here on campus (not to mention some serious hay fever...

April 20, 2015

As we celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of Earth Day this week, our students, alumni, faculty, and staff will be attending special programs at...