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Every Friday, we choose an alum who has been making headlines—for better or for worse.

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January 2012

  • 1/15/11: Joseph “Chip” Skowron III ’98MD, ’00PhD

    Joseph “Chip” Skowron III ’98MD, ’00PhD, has a lot of letters after his name. This week, his lawyer says he would... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 12:27pm

  • 1/8/11: Timothy Naftali ’83

    “President Nixon was in no way connected” with a break-in at the Watergate Hotel office of the Democratic National Committee. Despite the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 12:25pm

  • 1/1/11: William Cronon ’90PhD

    William Cronon ’90PhD recently compared his governor, Scott Walker, to another famous Wisconsin politician: Senator Joe... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 12:20pm

  • 3/25/11: John Malone ’63

    Back in November, we wrote about grand plans for reorganizing and expanding the faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Science... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 12:18pm

  • 3/18/11: Yasir Qadhi ’09MPhil

    One of his former students is the accused underwear bomber of Christmas 2009. Another was convicted of training with an Al Qaeda offshoot in Somalia. A... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 11:40am

  • 3/11/11: Millie Tomlinson ’14

    Like a lot of freshmen, Millie Tomlinson ’14 was eager to get home—to Derbyshire, England, in her case—for spring... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 11:38am

  • 3/4/11: David Wu ’82JD

      During the closing weeks of last fall’s election campaign—often nicknamed the “silly season”—some of US... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 11:32am

  • 2/25/11: Robert Lopez ’97

    Robert Lopez ’97 “sang in church choirs throughout college and always suspected he’d return to sacred music,” says the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 11:29am

  • 2/18/11: Eben Moglen ’85JD, ’93PhD

    While many of us liberal-arts types were cheering the people power that toppled Egypt’s dictatorship this month, tech geeks were worried. If... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 11:25am

  • 2/11/11: Rufus Peabody ’08

    Your kid’s obsessed with sports statistics? No worries. He can grow up to be a vote-counting guru or Freakonomics-style... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 11:22am

  • 2/4/11: Anderson Cooper ’89

    While Connecticut-based Yalies chopped their way through an ice storm this week, a famous fellow alum was fending off a hotter onslaught: attacks... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 11:13am

  • 12/3/10: David Carel ’13 & Gregg Gonsalves ’11

    Yale sophomore David Carel (right) had a brush with fame in October, when he and fellow protesters heckled President Barack Obama at a Connecticut... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 10:38am

  • 11/12/10: Phil LaMarr ’88

    You don’t have to look—or listen—very hard to find Phil LaMarr ’88 in television, movies, or video games. LaMarr, who... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 10:26am

  • 11/5/10: Chris Dudley ’87

    It came down to the buzzer. But when the electoral contest finally ended Wednesday night, ex-NBAer Chris Dudley ’87 lost his... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 10:23am

  • 10/29/10: Mark Gorton ’88

    Long before there was Mark Zuckerberg, there was Mark Gorton ’88. And long before there was Facebook, there was... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 10:20am

  • 10/22/10: Sara Gilbert ’97

    When Archimedes stepped into his bathtub, he figured out how to measure an object’s volume by the amount of water it displaces. When Sara Gilbert... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 10:16am

  • 10/15/10: Peter A. Diamond ’60

    Peter A. Diamond ’60 just won a Nobel prize for his theory of labor markets. Now maybe he can get a job.To tell the truth, the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 10:12am

  • 10/8/10: Cassius Marcellus Cornelius Clay ’13

    Kanye West has a new BFF: tall, thin, young, blond. No, not Taylor Swift: think taller, younger, and much, much preppier. Bow tie–wearing Andover... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 10:10am

  • 10/1/10: Seo-Hee Moon ’14

      Colleges from all over the country recruited Seo-Hee Moon ’14, but the freshman golfing phenom chose Yale because... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">the staff</span> | January 3 2012 09:58am