* In 2008, Trudeau received the Mental Health Research Advocacy Award from the Yale School of Medicine for his depiction of the mental-health issues facing soldiers upon returning home from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

Other Yale alumni who made serious bids for the Presidency during this period include Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 2008 ), Howard Dean ( 2004 ), Gary Hart ( 1984 and 1988 ), Paul Tsongas ( 1992 ), Pat Robertson ( 1988 ) and Jerry Brown ( 1976, 1980, 1992 ).

* Morris, Benny ( 2008 ), " 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War ", Yale University Press, New Haven, ISBN 978-0-300-12696-9

Yale University Press, 2008.

" In 2008, Yale researchers published a review on the safety and efficacy of ECT in elderly patients.

New Haven, Conn .: Yale University Press, 2008. pp. 93 – 119.

Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I ( Yale University Press, 2008 )

* Hämäläinen, Pekka ( 2008 ) The Comanche Empire New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

* Benny Morris, 1948, Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-12696-9

To seek more support from its alumni in the US and cement its collaboration with Yale University, Fudan University launched the Fudan University Education Development Foundation in New York in February 2008.

* Geoffery Roberts, Stalin ’ s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008 ).

In late 2008, the faculty decided that the school should move to an Honors / Pass / Low Pass ( H / P / LP ) grading system, much like those in place at Yale and Stanford Law Schools.

* Professor Paul Bloom, Yale University 2008, Yale Open Course, Introduction to Psychology, Lecture 10 Transcript

William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings, ( New Haven and London: Yale University Press ( Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art ), 2008 ).

In 2008, Yale Book of Quotations editor Fred R. Shapiro cast doubt on Niebuhr's claim of authorship.

The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread, Yale University Press, November 2008, ISBN 0-300-11229-7, ISBN 978-0-300-11229-0

In June 2008, Yale announced plans to build two new residential colleges, bringing the total to fourteen.

" No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery ," Langdon Hammer, chairman of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008.

He worked at the Rockefeller Institute ( 1958 – 1973 ), and was a professor at Yale University Medical School ( 1973 – 1990 ), and University of California, San Diego ( 1990 – 2008 ).

In: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Yale University Press, New Haven 2008, p. 534, ISBN 978-0-300-11903-9

* 1948: A History of the First Arab – Israeli War, Yale University Press, 2008.

As of March 2008, FIRE rated most institutions " red "; of the eight universities of the Ivy League, two were rated " green " ( Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania ), four were rated " red " ( Brown, Cornell, Harvard and Princeton ) and the final two ( Yale and Columbia ) were rated " yellow ".

Minnesota State University, ( 10 July 2008 ).

Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-84299-0.

In a June 2008 issue of the journal Autoimmunity Reviews, researchers S Planque, Sudhir Paul, Ph. D, and Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ph. D of the University Of Texas Medical School at Houston announced that they have engineered an abzyme that degrades the superantigenic region of the gp120 CD4 binding site.

The Atlantic Baptist University Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 2008.

On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

The Institute of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany has set up a Research Department Ayahuasca / Santo Daime, which in May 2008 held a 3-day conference under the title The globalization of Ayahuasca-An Amazonian psychoactive and its users.

Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008.

In 2007, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing importantly both to the preservation and the growth of the Swedish folk music tradition.

Final Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1972 – 2008 ( University of Nebraska Press, 2010 ) 344 pp. ISBN 978-0-8032-5965-2

In the Beano's home city of Dundee, a special exhibition was held at the University of Dundee featuring original artwork and other memorabilia loaned from D. C. Thomson-it ran until 20 September 2008.

* 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.

A 2008 expedition from the University of Washington's School of Oceanography collected sediment cores from the lagoon to study climate change over the last millennium.

* Lucy Chesser, Parting with My Sex: Cross-dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2008.

On October 22, 2008, the soccer team snapped a 201-game losing streak with a last-second goal against Cal Lutheran University, 1 – 0.

* Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford, Mauricio Antón, Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 ; ISBN 978-0-231-13528-3

Thompson also blamed Counter-Strike for the February 14, 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting perpetrated by Steven Kazmierczak on the day after the shooting.

The Book of Peace by Christine de Pizan. University Park: Penn State Press, 2008.

President James Wright announced his retirement in February 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physician Jim Yong Kim on July 1, 2009.

A 2008 University of Pennsylvania study of 6, 000 dog owners who were interviewed indicated that dogs of smaller breeds were more likely to be " genetically predisposed towards aggressive behaviour ".

* Peter Brass, Advanced Data Structures, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

The first video images of an electron's energy distribution were captured by a team at Lund University in Sweden, February 2008.

* E. Rubiola, Phase Noise and Frequency Stability in Oscillators Cambridge University Press, 2008.

* 2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 6 fatalities ( including gunman ) and 18 injuries.