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February 2014

  • Sudden changes, but slowly

    Matthew Pillsbury ’95 "met Nathan Noland, fell in love, came out as a gay man, and subsequently left his wife" in 2004, Slate's photography blog... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 27 2014 04:32pm

  • Two sexual assaults reported
    at off-campus student party

    Yale is investigating reports of two student sexual assaults at an off-campus party, university officials say. Campus police chief Ronnell Higgins e-mailed... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 24 2014 03:42pm

  • Weekly sports roundup: Women's swimming places third in Ivies

    Coming at the end of a season of intense competition, the women's swimming and diving team finished third in the Ivy League at the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | February 24 2014 07:15pm

  • Yale hockey player wins medal at Sochi

    Yale's only representative at this year's winter Olympics will be coming home with a medal. Phoebe Staenz ’17 scored a game-tying third period... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 21 2014 12:20pm

  • From Yale to jail? In Venezuela,
    a World Fellow hopes not

    Carlos Vecchio left Yale in December to help run some local elections in his native Venezuela. Now he is on the run. Vecchio, a 2013 Yale World... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 20 2014 05:14pm

  • Alison Jolly ’62PhD dies at 76; was world expert on lemurs

    "A chance invitation to babysit laboratory lemurs at Yale University in 1959, where she was a graduate student immersed in the study of sea sponges... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 19 2014 04:24pm

  • Battle of the cabbage cousins

    If you follow us on Facebook, you might have seen our photo last spring of a blue sweatshirt that says KALE instead of YALE. Turns out, not all Yalies are... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 18 2014 06:27pm

  • The eight-legged pain pill

    They call it "toxineering": engineering toxins, in this case from spider venom, for medical use—in this case, pain relief. And while a recent Yale... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 17 2014 03:40pm

  • Weekly sports roundup: Quinnipiac blanks Yale men's hockey, 4–0

    Almost a year after it beat Quinnipiac 4–0 at the NCAA championships, the No. 13 men's ice hockey team lost to the No. 4 Bobcats by the same score this... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | February 17 2014 04:14pm

  • From Yale's bakers, with love

    How to wish our readers a Happy Valentine's Day? Our friends at Yale's bakery in the basement of Commons, whom we featured in our July/August issue last... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | February 14 2014 10:23am

  • Live from Brooklyn:
    Shelly Kagan's "Death"

    "Death" has many incarnations: live, in Yale philosophy professor Shelly Kagan's popular lecture course; streaming video of the lectures, with a worldwide... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 13 2014 02:27pm

  • Heat stroke? Try cold stroke

    I get pretty tired of those local news stories about how we should be afraid of the weather here in the temperate zone. Killer cold! Killer heat!... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 12 2014 05:23pm

  • His (near) championship season

    For the Yale men's basketball team, the 2011-12 season was its best in a decade. For writer Ed Breslin, it was more like a religious experience. Breslin... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 11 2014 05:08pm

  • Weekly sports roundup: Men's basketball shatters Harvard's 20-game winning streak

    This weekend, the men's basketball team ended a 20-game home winning streak for Harvard when they defeated the Crimson 74–67. The day before, the Bulldogs... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | February 10 2014 04:36pm

  • Call him Mr. Manners

    "Are you ----ing serious?” Christopher Rim ’17 said to a New Haven Register reporter. It's not the kind of language you'd expect from... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 10 2014 03:19pm

  • Robert Dahl ’40PhD, renowned political scientist, dies at 98

    Robert Dahl ’40PhD, one of America's greatest political scientists and a major contributor to Yale's renown in the field, died Thursday at a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Gavan Gideon ’14</span> | February 7 2014 03:33pm

  • Will climate change spell
    so long for Sochi's snow?

    Sochi, Russia—a seaside summer resort—is not the ideal spot for winter sports, and organizers have worked hard to secure its snow for... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 6 2014 02:00pm

  • Sex misconduct report shows suspensions for partner violence

    Two male Yale College students were recently suspended for intimate partner violence against their boyfriends—also Yale... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 4 2014 05:23pm

  • 'Revolutionary' Yale gives Sotomayor a warm homecoming

    Yale College was "too progressive" for Sonia Sotomayor ’79JD when she came to visit from her conservative Catholic high school in 1972, the US... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | February 3 2014 05:54pm