Yale University

About 100 students demonstrated outside the monthly meeting of the Yale Corporation on Saturday to demand that the university sell stock in corporations doing business with South Africa. As of June, 1987, the Yale Office of Public Information said, the university had invested $213 million in corporations doing business in South Africa.

Curators often rummage through museum storage hoping to find a great painting or just a curiosity overlooked by their predecessors. But it's not every day that they find a canvas that they identify as an early masterpiece by Diego Velázquez, as John Marciari has. Marciari, now curator of European paintings at the San Diego Museum of Art, has published an article in the new issue of the Madrid quarterly Ars making the case that an unidentified painting...

Police issued arrest warrants on assault charges Monday for two men accused of a New Year's Eve attack on members of an all-male a cappella group from Yale University. Richard Aicardi and Brian Dwyer were charged with assaulting two members of the Baker's Dozen outside a party held in honor of the 16 student singers. Witnesses at the time said the trouble started after the vocalists sang "The Star Spangled Banner."

Erich Segal, a Yale University classics professor whose first novel, the weepy "Love Story," became a pop-culture phenomenon, selling more than 20 million copies in three dozen languages and spawning an iconic catchphrase of the 1970s, died Sunday in London. He was 72. Segal had Parkinson's disease and died of a heart attack, his daughter, Francesca Segal, told the Associated Press. "What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died?" Segal wrote in the first line of the 1970 novel about star-crossed lovers, played in the blockbuster 1970 movie by Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neal.

Joining the Club: A History of Jews and Yale by Dan A. Oren (Yale University: $29.95) The venerable Yale University Press has itself joined a kind of publishing club by presenting this formidably detailed account of the Jewish experience at Yale as if it were a broad social history, which for all its virtues it is not. Back when such specialized books appeared with titles like "Intolerance and Esteem: Two Centuries of Academic Ambivalence," you knew what to expect.

Adolf Seilacher was working his way through an unusual exhibit at the Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, Conn., when he stopped in front of something labeled "Shrimp Burrow Jungle." It was a product of science, but there was no scientific name, only the fanciful title and a gracefully textured, upright, 7-foot-by-3-foot cast image of ancient sediments. On display was a tangle of interlocking tunnels left in the sea floor hundreds of millions of years ago by an early form of shrimp.

Annie Le, whose body was found on the day she planned to wed, was mourned Monday by family members and friends from her hometown in the scenic Sierra Nevada foothills as smart and vibrant, kind and funny. The Yale University graduate student of Vietnamese heritage grew up in a remote, hilly area off a twisting, one-lane gravel road with an aunt and uncle she regarded as parents. Her brother remembered her on Facebook as someone who "left this world doing what she loved." "She may be small, but she be fierce," Chris Le wrote of his 24-year-old sister, who was pursuing a degree in pharmacology.

After the Connecticut medical examiner concluded that a body recovered from a Yale University research lab was that of graduate student Annie Le, friends, colleagues and students who didn't know her tried to come to terms Monday with her brutal death. Le's body was found Sunday, the day she was to marry a Columbia University graduate student. The 24-year-old doctoral student in pharmacology had been missing for five days when police found her remains stuffed behind a wall of a lab where she was doing research with animals.

Yale University undergraduates' tuition and fees will rise to $16,040 next year, officials said Thursday.

Frank M. Turner, professor of history at Yale University, will become the Ivy League school's next provost, Yale President Benno C. Schmidt Jr. has announced.

In a ceremony filled with tears and song, the people who loved Annie Le best said goodbye to her on Saturday. The private Mass, held in the sloping foothills of the Sierra Nevada, not far from Le's hometown of Placerville, came nearly two weeks after the 24-year-old graduate student's body was found hidden behind a wall in a Yale University laboratory building in New Haven, Conn. In eulogies, Le's family and pastor tried to reconcile the young woman's vibrant life with her violent death.

Even after police suspected that lab technician Raymond Clark had killed Yale University grad student Annie Le and stuffed her body behind a wall, he had unfettered access to the campus -- but was under constant surveillance, officials said Monday. Yale spokesman Tom Conroy said the school didn't disable an identification card that gave Clark access to campus buildings until after his arrest Thursday, four days after Le was found strangled in the lab building where they both worked.

As FBI agents and Yale University police combed the basement of a laboratory building for missing bride-to-be Annie Le, the man accused of killing her moved among them in an apparent effort to cover his tracks, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said. That behavior aroused suspicions about Raymond Clark III, but the final piece that led to his arrest Thursday was the discovery that evidence in the ceiling and in the crawl space where Le's body was found contained the DNA from both Le and Clark, according to the law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.

After the Connecticut medical examiner concluded that a body recovered from a Yale University research lab was that of graduate student Annie Le, friends, colleagues and students who didn't know her tried to come to terms Monday with her brutal death. Le's body was found Sunday, the day she was to marry a Columbia University graduate student. The 24-year-old doctoral student in pharmacology had been missing for five days when police found her remains stuffed behind a wall of a lab where she was doing research with animals.

Annie Le, whose body was found on the day she planned to wed, was mourned Monday by family members and friends from her hometown in the scenic Sierra Nevada foothills as smart and vibrant, kind and funny. The Yale University graduate student of Vietnamese heritage grew up in a remote, hilly area off a twisting, one-lane gravel road with an aunt and uncle she regarded as parents. Her brother remembered her on Facebook as someone who "left this world doing what she loved." "She may be small, but she be fierce," Chris Le wrote of his 24-year-old sister, who was pursuing a degree in pharmacology.

Police discovered Sunday what they believe is the body of Yale University graduate student Annie Le, hidden in a wall of a campus research lab where she was last seen five days ago. Sunday was to have been her wedding day, with 160 guests including relatives from her hometown of Placerville, Calif. The body was found in an area of the lab building where utility cables run between floors. Peter Reichard, New Haven's assistant police chief, told reporters four hours later: "We are assuming that it is her."

Grants by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration totaling $1 million will fund the new Yale Center for Solar and Space Research, Yale University scientists said Friday.

A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University's secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo. The letter, written by one member of Skull and Bones to another, purports that the skull and some of the Indian leader's remains were spirited from his burial plot in Ft. Sill, Okla., to a stone tomb in New Haven that serves as the club's headquarters.

Potential evidence has been seized from the building where a Yale University graduate student was last seen before she vanished days ahead of her wedding, authorities said Saturday. "I will categorically say a body has not been found," FBI spokeswoman Kim Mertz said at a news conference. "Items that could potentially be evidence have been seized. None have yet been associated with Annie Le at this time." Mertz would not confirm reports that the items found included bloody clothing.

Milan Stitt, 68, a playwright best known for "The Runner Stumbles," a drama about a fateful encounter in 1911 between a Catholic priest and a nun, died Thursday of liver cancer at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York. Since 1997 he had been head of the dramatic writing program at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama, which announced his death. He was chairman of the playwriting program at Yale University from 1987 to 1993. Stitt reworked "The Runner Stumbles" many times before he settled on a version that was produced at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1974.