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Yale University conferred Hill with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at its 2016 commencement. "You are a Yale legend" is the opening sentence of the citation honoring Hill. "You are a Yale legend" is the opening sentence of the citation honoring Hill.
The 2015–16 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by seventeenth-year head coach James Jones , played their home games at John J. Lee Amphitheater of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and were members of the Ivy League .
The 2016 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. This season marked the Bulldogs's 144th overall season and the team played its home games at Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut. They were led by fifth-year head coach Tony Reno. They were a member of the Ivy League. They finished ...
Scores of graduating students staged a walkout from Yale University's commencement exercises on Monday, protesting the Israeli war in Gaza, Yale's financial ties to weapons makers and its response ...
The 2016 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2015–16 season.
(For a list of notable Yale University graduates, see the list of Yale University people.) Records are kept by the Association of Yale Alumni. All degrees listed below are LL.B. (the primary professional degree in law conferred by Yale Law School until 1971) or J.D. (the primary professional degree in law conferred since 1971), unless noted ...
Woodbridge Hall, location of the university president's office. Yale University was founded in 1701 as a school for Congregationalist ministers. One of its ten founding ministers, Abraham Pierson, became its first Rector, the administrative and ecclesiastical head of the college.
Main entrance to Jonathan Edwards College. In 1930, Yale President James Rowland Angell announced a "Quadrangle Plan" for Yale College, establishing small collegiate communities in the style of Oxford and Cambridge in order to foster more social intimacy among students and faculty, relieve dormitory overcrowding, and reduce the influence of on-campus fraternities and societies.