Richard C. Levin

University President Richard C. Levin received The Hill Development Corporation’s Annual Courtland Seymour Wilson Community Builder Award for his efforts to build a partnership with the city of New Haven and, in particular, the Hill neighborhood. Also honored at a ceremony in December were Jorge Perez, president of the New Haven Board of Aldermen, and Charles Williams, principal of Hill Regional Career High School.

Levin was honored for several partnership efforts with the city: the Yale Homebuyer Program, which has helped more than 520 Yale employees buy homes in the city; a program that allows Career High students to take courses at the medical school; the university’s efforts to promote a local biotech industry; and summer programs that bring more than 500 New Haven high school students to the Yale campus for academic and athletic activities.