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October 2013

  • Chinese astronomer caught in
    crossfire of political star wars

    Yale astronomer Ji Wang will be going to a NASA conference next week after all. But thanks to a snafu in which the space agency banned and then unbanned... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | October 30 2013 11:04am

  • Weekly sports roundup (10/21-10/27)

    That chill in the air we're feeling in New England right now must be extra special when you're facing a 25-mph wind on Narragansett Bay, as the men and women of Yale's coed... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 28 2013 05:58pm

  • MPH-MBA combo gets a shortcut

    If you were unsure why anyone would want joint degrees in management and public health, the Healthcare.gov fiasco might persuade you. Now Yale is... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | October 28 2013 11:47am

  • Tricks and treats at Woolsey next Thursday

    The Yale Symphony Orchestra's Halloween Show sold out in ten minutes of online ticket sales last week. I have always loved the fact that the hottest... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 25 2013 10:22am

  • Stanford : tech entrepreneurs : :
    Yale : social entrepreneurs

    "What Stanford is to classic tech entrepreneurship, Yale is becoming to social entrepreneurship," declares Ozy, a news and culture website ("smarter... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | October 24 2013 11:32am

  • Murder by a Beat: the Yalies
    who made 'Kill Your Darlings'

    "Like many college students," writes Austin Bunn ’95, "I fell in love with the Beat Generation writers in college. I remember crouching in the aisles of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | October 23 2013 11:26am

  • Where the party never ends:
    Yalie runs for Miami Beach mayor

    When Steve Berke ’03 ran for mayor of Miami Beach under the banner of the After Party, his platform revolved—somewhat hazily—around... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | October 22 2013 01:14pm

  • Weekly Sports Roundup (10/14-10/20)

    The men's golf team ended its fall season on a high note with a first-place in the Ivy League Match Play, a big improvement over last year, when they finished in fourth... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | October 21 2013 05:34pm

  • Ed tech entrepreneurs land
    $4M in Zuckerbucks

    Like Mark Zuckerberg, Yalies Aaron Feuer, Alexander "Xan" Tanner, and David Carel launched a tech startup while they were still undergraduates.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | October 21 2013 10:55am

  • Snapshots of a bygone Yale

    In order to build its two new residential colleges—a project that just got $250 million closer to fruition—Yale has demolished a whole... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 18 2013 12:15pm

  • Humanists & Yale religious group:
    a match not made in heaven

    Religion Without God. Faitheism. These notions of a credible, even comfortable, nexus between atheist and religious attitudes—notions... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | October 17 2013 11:28am

  • How to spend $17 million

    New Yale president Peter Salovey ’86PhD celebrated his inauguration this past weekend with a block party in front of his future home on... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | October 16 2013 12:09pm

  • Calhoun dean Leslie Woodard
    dies unexpectedly at 53

    Leslie Woodard was a professional dancer, a writer, a teacher, an equestrian, and—since 2007—the dean of Calhoun College. Now, after her... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | October 15 2013 08:28am

  • Weekly Sports Roundup (10/7-10/13)

    With the fall season heating up, many of Yale's teams are really shining on the field and the court—and the women's volleyball team is no exception. The Bulldogs... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | October 14 2013 07:53pm

  • Nobel-winning economist Shiller
    knows both prices and values

    A cynic, Oscar Wilde wrote, is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Robert Shiller, Yale's Sterling Professor of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | October 14 2013 10:21am

  • A populist inauguration

    Yesterday in Woolsey Hall, Peter Salovey ’86PhD was inaugurated as the 23rd president of Yale. But that was only the ceremonial capstone to a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Kathrin Day Lassila ’81</span> | October 14 2013 09:04am

  • Student voices: feminists at frat parties, and more

    Yalies write every day. Their personal essays, critiques of university policy, art reviews, and political op-eds, like journal entries, capture snippets of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Minami Funakoshi ’14</span> | October 11 2013 09:21am

  • Yellen picked as Fed's first female chair

    President Obama's choice to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve would be the first woman in the job. She would also be the third Yale graduate. Yesterday... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | October 10 2013 06:28am

  • Eli gets the win for Red Sox

    If you look at the box score for the American League Division Series championship that the Boston Red Sox pulled off last night, you’ll notice... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Bruce Fellman</span> | October 9 2013 12:22pm