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April 2012

Seven new Open Yale Courses
The new courses, along with 35 posted previously, are featured on a redesigned website offering new user-friendly options and optimized for mobile devices. The content for each of these courses—video, audio and searchable transcripts—is available for free to anyone with access to the Internet. Open Yale Courses has received more than 3.8 million unique visits since its debut.

Unraveling autism’s mysteries
As autism numbers climb, the disorder remains a frustrating mystery for families, clinicians, and researchers. The Yale Child Study Center and other departments at Yale have been in the vanguard of helping define and treat the disorder as well as offering clues to the genetic mechanisms that give rise to the heartbreaking disease. Video: Autism seminar

Gift will support new plays and musicals
Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre have received an $18 million gift from the Robina Foundation that will endow the creation of new plays and musicals for the American stage through the newly named Binger Center for New Theatre.

British Art Center joins Google Art Project
More than 5,000 of the museum’s artworks are available through Google’s online collections.

Seeking to prevent age–related infertility
Many women do not fully appreciate the consequences of delaying motherhood, and researchers hope to provide education about steps women can take early in their reproductive years to preserve the possibility of conception later in life.

Ask Yale about health
You can learn about medical issues and get answers to your own health–related questions via the new “Ask Yale Medicine” blog. Health queries are answered by physicians of Yale Medical Group, the clinical practice of Yale School of Medicine.

Yale’s Pulitzer Prizes
John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History, has been awarded a 2012 Pulitzer Prize for his book, “George F. Kennan: An American Life.” The book also won the biography award of The National Book Critics Circle. Four Yale alumni have also received Pulitzers this year.

2012 Commencement
The full Commencement schedule for May 18–21 is available online. Journalist Barbara Walters will address the Yale College seniors on May 20.

Yale Day of Service is Saturday, May 12
You are invited to join thousands of alumni to give one day to make a difference in your community. Please take a look at the many service sites available and register for the one that is of greatest interest to you. Video highlights: http://bit.ly/iDBNNO.

New leadership at the School of Divinity
Video: Gregory E. Sterling, currently dean of the Graduate School of the University of Notre Dame, will become the next dean of the Yale Divinity School this August.

Vote for Alumni Fellow
The ballots for this year’s Alumni Fellow Election, to vote an Alumni Fellow to the Yale Corporation, have been emailed and mailed to all eligible voters. Eligible voters who did not receive a ballot may request a replacement via email by contacting the Yale 2012 Alumni Fellow Election at yalehelp@electionservicescorp.com or by written request to the Secretary of the University. Information is available on the Secretary’s website. You may also obtain information on the candidates, Ellen Gibson McGinnis ’82, Judith A. Miller ’75 J.D., and Kevin P. Ryan ’85, on the election voting website. The voting deadline is 11:59 PM, EDT, on May 20, 2012.

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