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April 2013

  • Tim Taylor, winningest Yale men's hockey coach, dies at 71

    The winningest men's hockey coach in Yale history died Saturday, two weeks after Yale won its first-ever national hockey championship. Tim Taylor... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 29 2013 09:24am

  • A father's postwar struggle, set to music

    When John K. Meneely Jr. ’37, ’41MD, returned from service as an Army doctor in World War II, his fight wasn't over. As his daughters tell it... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 26 2013 10:25am

  • Look for the rainbow—after dark

    Along with the glorious springtime colors that are brightening New Haven's days, the city commissioned a light sculpture to brighten the nights. "Night... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 25 2013 08:37am

  • Yale humanists want a
    chaplaincy of their own

    On the home page of the Yale University chaplain's office is a photo collage of a dozen people of various ages, faiths, and ethnic backgrounds. One... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 24 2013 01:14pm

  • New Haven mayoral race
    grows crowded with Yalies

    In New Haven, just like at Yale, the chief executive is stepping down after 20 years at the helm. But unlike at Yale—where the governing... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 23 2013 11:43am

  • Weekly Sports Roundup (4/15-4/21)

    As the semester winds to a close, many of Yale's sports teams are competing in some of their final games of the season, and results included some unexpected losses and some major upsets. The men's... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | April 22 2013 01:50pm

  • Two wheels are better than one

    For those times when wheels are needed but Zipcar seems like overkill, the Yale community now has a new option: bikesharing. Launched... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, 97MSL</span> | April 22 2013 08:57am

  • Yalie novelists make Granta list

    Granta has released its once-in-a-decade list of the Best of Young British Novelists, and it features two Yalies: Benjamin Markovits '96 and Taiye Selasi '01. The... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Sophia Nguyen ’14</span> | April 19 2013 11:54am

  • NATIONAL CHAMPS!
    (Brainiac division)

    We really don't mean to sound triumphalist. Not all Yalies succeed all the time. But this has been quite a week. Along with the NCAA hockey... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 18 2013 08:16am

  • Yalies grab a fistful of Pulitzers

    On a day dominated initially by celebration of Yale's first-ever national hockey championship, and later by shock and grief at the Boston Marathon... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 17 2013 12:06pm

  • Philosopher Jason Stanley
    contemplates Yale

    “One of the bright lights of American philosophy,” Jason Stanley, will join Yale in July as a professor of philosophy and linguistics.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 16 2013 08:13am

  • Weekly Sports Roundup (4/8-4/14)

    Last weekend, the men's ice hockey team made Yale history when it took home a national championship—and a lot of other Yale teams had good weeks, too. The No.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | April 15 2013 02:30pm

  • NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! Yale beats QU for title

    Which unbelievable thing shall we start with? That the Yale men's hockey team, which barely even qualified for the NCAA Tournament, made it to the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 13 2013 07:01pm

  • Yale–Quinnipiac rivalry gets serious

    It's a big enough surprise that the Yale men's hockey team will play for the national championship tomorrow night for the first time in the 65-year... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 12 2013 06:23am

  • Bulldogs win! Men's hockey will play in national championship (UPDATED)

    An overtime goal by captain Andrew Miller ’13 gave the Yale men's hockey team a 3–2 victory over UMass–Lowell in Pittsburgh... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 11 2013 04:10pm

  • Friends make you fat?
    Get the skinny on networks

    Remember that study a few years back saying that when your friends gain weight, you do too—even if they live far away? The researcher is... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 11 2013 10:20am

  • Melanoma survivors keep tanning

    Melanoma, the skin cancer that kills a person every hour in the United States, is not enough to keep some survivors out of the sun—or the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 10 2013 07:43am

  • Victim's estate sues over
    2011 Yale Bowl accident

    The estate of a woman who was run over by a Yale undergraduate outside the 2011 Yale-Harvard football game is suing the student and the university... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | April 9 2013 09:20am

  • It might as well be spring

    You know how there's always one day when everyone just knows that spring has come at last to New Haven, and everybody just has to be outside?... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | April 8 2013 12:50pm