The donations, from the Minnesota-based Robina Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will support the Yale Center for New Theatre, a program founded in 2008 by the Yale Repertory Theatre and the School of Drama.

State police are leading the investigation into how Yonglu Che ?13 was struck by a Yale Police car last Sunday. Che is recovering and reportedly in good spirits.

The bar's owner said his landlord asked him to leave to make room for the expansion of Main Garden, the Chinese restaurant next door. The landlord, Teun Pang Chan, said only that he is in negotiations with a small group of parties interested in Rudy?s current location.

Yonglu Che ?13 sustained severe injuries after being struck by a Yale Police Department vehicle on Winchester Avenue around 1:30 Sunday morning. He was taken to St. Raphael's Hospital, where he is in stable condition.

The Yale women's crew varsity eight boat took first place in the NCAA Championship Grand Final in Gold River, Calif., on May 30 with a time of six minutes and 24.75 seconds. Yale rowed a quick first 500 meters in Lake Natoma to grab the lead, holding on to beat the University of Virginia by two seats. It was the third time in four years that the Yale first varsity boat triumphed at the NCAAs.

About 150 Yale employees have voluntarily resigned and almost 100 more have been laid off since May, when the most recent round of University layoffs began. The layoffs followed the announcement in February of a tightened budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

Police searched the Woodbridge, Conn., home of Lars Branden ? until recently the director of the Yale Center for High Throughput Cell Biology ? on June 5 and again three weeks ago, finding laboratory equipment valued at $22,000.

Just days after formally retiring as head of the Yale Police, James Perrotti has started as interim police chief at Boston College.

A former associate curator says a battered canvas that has sat in the University Art Gallery's storage for nearly a century is an early work by the famed Spanish court painter.

The New Haven Police Department sent out a warning Thursday afternoon that Hector Delgado, 26, escaped from the Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital on Wednesday by climbing a tree and jumping over the hospital's outer wall.

Sang-Ohk Shim GRD ?10, a cell biology Ph.D. candidate from South Korea, died Sunday at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Shim had been receiving psychiatric treatment for depression, but her death still came as a shock to friends and colleagues, who described her as smart, effervescent and "a joy to work with."

The father of Raymond Clark III spoke out Wednesday in support of his son for the first time since he was charged with the murder of Annie Le GRD '13 in September. ?These have been difficult times, but we have always been, and will continue to be, a strong, loving and supportive family," Raymond Clark Jr. said.

During a trip to Peru earlier this month, Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd pledged his support in the nation's efforts to recover Inca artifacts held by Yale since 1911. "The Machu Picchu items ... belong to the people of Peru," Dodd said.

Camille Lizarribar, a former adjunct lecturer in the Directed Studies program who will begin teaching again in 2011, is set to move into Swing Space with her family at the end of July, replacing outgoing Dean Jennifer Wood.

Hilary Witt, the eight-season head coach of the Yale?s women?s hockey team and the team?s most victorious coach, will leave Yale at the end of the month to pursue other interests. A national search is being conducted to find her successor.

A local doctor, the Athletics Department and a former Yale men's hockey player are among those urgently working to find a bone marrow or cord blood donor for Mandi Schwartz '11, the women's hockey forward who has battled leukemia for nearly 18 months.

Two Chicago Police Department veterans and one NHPD officer were sworn in Friday as the city's new assistant chiefs of police. With the departure this past winter of former NHPD Chief James Lewis and three of the city's four assistant chiefs, the department had been left with only one top official until Frank Limon became chief in April.

Alumni have chosen Francisco Cigarroa '79, chancellor of the University of Texas System, to replace Margaret Marshall LAW '76 as one of the Corporation's six alumni fellows. Marshall's term expires June 30.

A wave of recent shootings in New Haven included the year's 13th homicide early Tuesday morning. Only one arrest has been made in connection with the 13 murders this year, which already surpass the 12 in all of 2009.

UPDATED: The 22?7 vote comes less than two weeks after Mayor John DeStefano Jr. amended his original budget proposal, adding $6 million worth of cuts in order to reduce a proposed tax increase. The new cuts affect the Board of Education and public safety budgets.

So far, about 67 percent of admitted students have chosen to matriculate at Yale in the fall, down from 68.7 at this point last year. Yale's springtime yield rate has declined marginally but steadily over the past five years, from just over 70 percent for the class of 2010.

About 70 administrators, students and alumni gathered in Istanbul on Wednesday to kick off a a series of events organized by the Yale Office of International Affairs in collaboration with three Turkish universities.

Though the landmark Whitney Avenue diner is shutting its doors, the pizzeria next door, run by the same family, will stay open and serve some dishes from the dairy's old menu.

Mia Genoni, a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Humanities Department who came to Yale in 2008, will move in to Berkeley in July, replacing outgoing dean Kevin Hicks '89.

A week after police made their first arrest in the 2010's rash of killings, a new spate of shootings has swept the city.

UPDATED: After months of allegations that the money he donated to Yale's baseball program was made illegally, John Mazzuto '70 was arrested at his Florida home on Monday and extradited to New York to be arraigned on Tuesday.

One day after Bill Clinton LAW '73 spoke at Class Day, Yale honored the class of 2010 and nine visiting dignitaries at Commencement. Some 18,000 people gathered on Old Campus for a time-honored ritual marked by Medieval regalia, Latin proclamations and still more funny hats.

Though he did not don a hat per Class Day tradition, former President Bill Clinton LAW '73 received a standing ovation for his largely impromptu speech, which urged the class of 2010 to solve global problems.

The NHPD arrested William Wilkins, 21, on Wednesday morning for the April murder of Radcliff Deroche, 18. Police have yet to make arrests in this year's 10 other murders.

Responding to community backlash against tax hikes, the mayor presented a revised budget that proposes cuts to the police department, the school system and the city's Christmas tree.

At about 11:30 a.m., the New Haven Fire Department and bomb squad were sent to the airport, where they detonated the package and found nothing inside. Airport operations resumed at 2:30 p.m.

UPDATED: A Sterling professor and the current chair of the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Pollard led the search committee charged with finding a replacement for outgoing dean Jon Butler.

Though Peruvian officials originally hoped the artifacts would be back in time for the commemoration in July 2011, the Chamber of Tourism plans to use the event instead to raise awareness and to pressure Yale to return them.

Last week, Jonathan Carter voiced strong opposition to a proposal to build a wind power plant in the Highland Mountains of Maine (?Save the Highland Mountains,? April 22). He forewarned that this project, allegedly financed by the Yale endowment, would achieve little besides ruining the scenic beauty of the area and damaging the local ecosystem.

While changes in landscape from the project will be inevitable and Carter?s concerns could be reasonable, his analysis of the plant?s potential impact on greenhouse gas emissions is misleading. Contrary to what the column suggests, wind energy from this plant, if built, is certain to reduce carbon emissions.

This weekend, Yale students and alumni all over the world will participate in the Yale Day of Service. In New York City, the projects organized by the ?Public Service/Social Justice Committee? of the local alumni group range from ?sprucing up parks? to ?reading books to children? and ?teaching tennis.? This is the second annual Day of Service, and I dread and rebuke it as much as I did last year.

After a loss to Princeton over the weekend, Yale was not named among the 16 teams that will advance to the NCAA Division I Tournament later this month, ending the team's most successful season in recent memory.

At a hearing Tuesday, Lishan Wang, the man accused of murdering Yale postdoctoral fellow Vajinder Toor, was ordered to give a saliva sample of his DNA. The Branford Police will perform two cheek swabs Tuesday afternoon.

The third-seeded Elis, trailing the second-seeded Tigers by five goals with less than nine minutes to play, slashed that gap with four goals in the next seven minutes. But time expired before the Elis could pull off the comeback.

David Apter, political scientist, sociologist and professor emeritus at Yale, died of illness Tuesday at the age of 85. Faculty remembered him as a deep thinker, a dear friend and a champion of interdisciplinary scholarship.

Eight months after the on-campus murder of Annie Le GRD '13, the University announced a new round of workshops about preventing workplace violence, in addition to expanding its website on the same topic.

English professor Donald Margulies' play "Time Stands Still" was nominated Tuesday for Best Play.

A bomb squad closed Beinecke Plaza and part of Wall Street on Tuesday in response to calls about a suspicious package, which authorities discovered contained books.

The man accused of murdering a Yale postdoctoral fellow told police he was at the crime scene and was sorry about what had happened.

SNL comic Fred Armisen did impressions and reflected on his career at a Master's Tea on Sunday co-sponsored by the Yale Record.

No. 13 Yale topped the Crimson 9?8 at home on Saturday, earning a bid to the inaugural Ivy League post-season tournament and a share of the Ancient Eight title. The Elis will play Princeton on Friday.

The Publick Cup coffeehouse on York Street was open for the last time on Friday. It will reopen on Tuesday as New Haven's second Blue State Coffee.

As of April 1, approximately 68.8 percent of prospective students indicated that they intended to apply for financial aid, down from 71 percent recorded last year.

More than 60 students marched to protest the recent increase of the student term-time contribution and deliver a petition to University President Richard Levin.

An associate professor of Slavic languages and literature and the department's current director of undergraduate studies, Hilary Fink was greeted with cheers at the announcement of her appointment in the Branford dining hall.