Yale University’s English Language Institute offers six-week intensive English language courses as well as graduate and professional seminars every summer in New Haven. These seminars are designed to address the language and discipline-specific needs of students, business professionals and law professionals.

Students receive practice in the oral and written communication skills needed to succeed in graduate work, graduate management programs, medical studies, or advanced legal studies. Assignments are designed to provide orientation to vocabulary and concepts of the discipline and to give practice in the kinds of work that will be required of students.

To apply to Yale's 2011 programs, students must complete an application form and a housing application; these must be submitted with the initial fees -- $50 application fee (non-refundable) and a $200 tuition deposit (refundable if a student is not admitted).

Enrollment is limited. Applications due on June 6th for summer 2011. For more information please visit: http://www.yale.edu/eli/

After running a competition on the ISI Facebook Fan page for the last few months, International Student Insurance has finally revealed the winner of the iPad Sweepstakes. The winner is Lui Lun Tze, an international student studying Chemical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Lui is originally from Hong Kong, but has been studying in the USA for the last 2 years now and is really excited by the prospect of receiving his new iPad 2!

International Student Insurance runs other promotions throughout the year, so please be sure to fan the ISI Facebook page and look out for other great competitions and sweepstakes! If you are also part of an International Student Association, why not take advantage of the current ISI pizza party promotion - check out the website for more information!

On March 11, the world watched in horror as a massive earthquake hit Japan, followed by the devastating tsunami it caused. For Japanese students in the US and around the world, as well as international students in Japan, it was and still is a time of great sadness and anxiety. This month we bring you stories from several schools as they help their students to deal with the tragedy - this is just a small sampling, as these stories played out school by school around the country and the world.

Students from the Japanese Association at Iowa State held a vigil and raised money, one of countless such events around the world:

http://www.iowastatedaily.com/

Students at UNLV raised money:

https://www.unlvfreepress.com/

Chico State study abroad students were recalled from Japan, like many others:
http://theorion.com