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June 2013

  • In SCOTUS Olympics,
    this Yale kid wins a gold

    On Monday, he was Politico's "top photo": face set intensely, tie flying over his shoulder as he dashed from the US Supreme Court building, folded... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 27 2013 11:45am

  • Wedding bell (Old) Blues:
    Yalies in the gay-marriage cases

    From Bill Clinton ’73JD, who signed the Defense of Marriage Act as US president in 1996, to David Boies ’66LLB, who challenged California's ban... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 26 2013 11:43am

  • Alas, the poor English major:
    a writing teacher's lament

    "In 1991, 165 students graduated from Yale with a B.A. in English literature," Verlyn Klinkenborg writes in the New York Times. "By 2012, that... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 25 2013 08:20am

  • For working-class Britons, Ivies seem friendlier than Oxbridge

    Yale and Harvard, modeled after Oxford and Cambridge, are enticing some of the UK's top public-school students away from England's most prestigious... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 24 2013 07:44am

  • Forgot to steal your college china? Now you can buy it.

    A while back, we reported that Yale's residential college dining halls were no longer using their separate, distinctive china patterns. In the name... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | June 21 2013 12:33pm

  • Wi-Phi: a Yale-MIT answer to
    the question 'why philosophy?'

    "Sizes of Infinity." "God and Morality." "The Problem of Evil." (That last one is a three-part series: evil is a big problem.) These are among dozens... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 20 2013 07:52am

  • YODA's the name;
    open science is the game

    In a striking experiment in research transparency, a Yale-managed project has used a medical company's own clinical data to rebut its previous claims about a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 19 2013 07:40am

  • Looking through a glass organ

    In the photo they look like odd-shaped bottles, perhaps hanging in an old-fashioned farmhouse kitchen. In real life, the green glass objects are... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 18 2013 10:49am

  • Combat-to-college program marches forward

    The Warrior Scholar Project—an academic boot camp for college-bound veterans—is on the march. Launched last year by two Yalies, Jesse Reising... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Henry Furman ’14</span> | June 17 2013 11:57am

  • Cancer counselor 'thrilled'
    with ruling on gene patents

    A US Supreme Court decision today means "cheaper, faster and better genetic testing" for Yale cancer patients, says Ellen Matloff, director of genetic... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 13 2013 08:25am

  • SOM's new home:
    seven months till takeoff

    For months, New Haveners have passed by the blue-wrapped structure on Whitney Avenue, across from the Peabody Museum, and wondered what the Yale... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 12 2013 11:45am

  • Yale Law School challenges
    NSA order on Verizon records

    Yale law students and faculty have joined the fray over National Security Agency collection of Verizon customers' phone call data. The Law School's... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 11 2013 11:26am

  • 'However far I can pedal' for vets

    "As a veteran I have been lucky twice," writes Neil Mulligan ’01MFA: "First as an infantryman in the relatively quick Gulf War and second as a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 10 2013 12:35pm

  • Can texting stop AIDS in Uganda? Apparently not, study finds

    Information is power, they say. But when Google and the Grameen Foundation provided free information about HIV and safer sex to powerless women in... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 7 2013 08:20am

  • Levin vows Yale's return to troubled neighborhood

    Just weeks after canceling an affordable-housing project where an elderly professor was assaulted, Yale president Rick Levin ’74PhD promised... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 6 2013 07:39am

  • Immunologist Medzhitov wins
    $5.1 million science prize

    Ruslan Medzhitov is making a habit out of winning new science prizes. A German foundation announced today that its inaugural Else... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 5 2013 09:21am

  • New melanoma drug stirs excitement

    The test results are early—and sponsored by the drug manufacturer—but scientists and journalists alike are excited about the prospects of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 4 2013 12:49pm

  • Van de Velde settles suit over unsolved Jovin murder (updated)

    A former Yale faculty member who was publicly named as a suspect—but never charged—in the 1998 murder of his student has settled his... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 3 2013 12:02pm