Judith Ann Schiff is chief research archivist at the Yale University Library.
Manuscripts and archives
Ellen Battell Stoeckel—shown here with her husband, Carl, and their dogs—gave the university her estate. It is now a bucolic retreat for the Yale Norfolk Summer Schools of Music and Art. View full image
Although Yale was all-male until 1869, women have been generous donors to Yale for three centuries. Their innovative gifts include the first scholarship for African Americans, a music school, facilities for the modern study of geology, a tuberculosis hospital, and a model residential college featuring an iconic landmark tower. Here, we recognize just a few of the many women whose gifts have enabled Yale to fulfill and expand its educational mission.
Port of Cleveland to sell $75 million in bonds for Cleveland Museum of Natural History expansion
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This rendering shows the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Museum’s Transforming the World of Discovery expansion and renovation project.
The board voted on the issue Thursday, Feb. 11, during a meeting at which longtime member and former chair Chris Ronayne, who is president of University Circle Inc., announced he was stepping down from the board.
The tax-exempt cultural facility revenue bond is part of the funding needed for the latest part of the museum's $150 million expansion program that president and CEO Sonia Winner told Port board members will "connect people to the natural world" and make the museum "the most dynamic natural history museum of its kind."