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March 2014

  • Poisoned lab fish lead to lawsuit

    After a lab colleague poisoned Magdalena Koziol's zebra fish, her supervisor further sabotaged her career, driving her away from Yale, Koziol claims in a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | March 27 2014 03:53pm

  • Two alumnae in trustee election

    I'm no Nate Silver, but I'm predicting with near-100 percent confidence that the winner of this year's election of an alumni fellow to the Yale... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 25 2014 04:06pm

  • Levin's next act: Coursera CEO

    Rick Levin '74PhD is in California on a sabbatical from Yale this academic year after serving 20 years as the university's president, but it now looks like... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 24 2014 04:59pm

  • Best foot upward

    "I really wanted people to remember Bayes’s Rule" of conditional probability, says Gregory Samanez-Larkin. The Yale assistant professor of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | March 26 2014 12:15pm

  • Weekly sports roundup: women's crew starts strong

    The women's crew may not have competed since last October, but the Bulldogs managed to claim the team title at the Longhorn Invitational in Austin, Texas, this weekend. Head... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | March 24 2014 01:21pm

  • Van Gogh will stay at Yale, judge rules

    As the international community concerns itself with Russia's recent takeover of Crimea, a federal judge in Hartford today ruled today in a case involving a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 21 2014 02:58pm

  • What's in a name? Looking for answers at Calhoun College

    Among the wonders of Yale that greeted Chris Rabb: a stained-glass portrait of John C. Calhoun, class of 1804, "and a black man in shackles, in tatters... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | March 19 2014 05:09pm

  • From amazin' to Disgrasian,
    first Yale Asian Alumni Reunion

    PepsiCo Chair and CEO Indra Nooyi '80 MPPM will be there. So will Gary Locke ’72, US ambassador to China. Joining these establishment luminaries at... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | March 18 2014 04:39pm

  • Weekly sports roundup: Men's tennis extends winning streak to six matches

    During the first week of Yale College's spring break, the men's tennis team did anything but rest. The Bulldogs (7–2, 0–0 Ivy) defeated Stony... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Daniel Sisgoreo ’14</span> | March 17 2014 04:02pm

  • Yalies to Senator Coons: reconsider civil rights nominee

    Debo Adegbile is not a Yale alumnus. But he has a couple hundred boosters at Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School—and they want Chris Coons... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | March 17 2014 05:44pm

  • You have to break some eggs

    Okay, drop whatever you're doing. If you run to the Peabody Museum right now, you can see a mob of emus (that's really the collective noun: mob) forming... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 13 2014 02:28pm

  • Yale students to young people: get covered

    With just 20 days left before the federal deadline for uninsured people to sign up for health insurance, it may take more than President Obama deadpanning... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 12 2014 03:38pm

  • Weekly sports roundup: men's hockey advances to ECAC quarterfinals

    The men’s ice hockey team dominated Harvard in the first round of the ECAC playoffs this weekend, sweeping the series with wins of 4–0 on Friday and 2–1... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">John Branch</span> | March 10 2014 04:53pm

  • Church drops case against ex-divinity dean for officiating
    at son's gay marriage

    Thomas Ogletree, a former Yale Divinity School dean, wouldn't have been the first Methodist minister defrocked for performing his son's marriage to another... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | March 10 2014 04:00pm

  • Windham Campbell Prize winners announced

    One writer thought the e-mails from Michael Kelleher were a Nigerian scam. Another, on the telephone, asked Kelleher to keep talking for a while, as... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 7 2014 12:16pm

  • Before Green and Bouchet, another African American Yale College grad. Maybe.

    Just last Friday, we told you that the first African American to graduate from Yale College was not Edward Bouchet in 1874, but Richard Henry Green in 1857. Since then... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 7 2014 02:26pm

  • Yale's message in a bottle:
    stop the binge drinking

    The Yale College drinking data are in, and they are "alarming," the dean's office says. Among students who drink, 62 percent report binge drinking... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | March 6 2014 03:50pm

  • Author-surgeon Sherwin Nuland ’55MD dies at 83

    Sherwin Nuland ’55MD, the surgeon-turned-author who was a clinical professor of surgery at Yale for nearly 30 years, died on Monday at his home in Hamden at... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | March 5 2014 03:15pm

  • A happy Oscar night for Yale

    Last night's Academy Awards program was an exciting night for film fanatics—and Yale. Drama school grad Lupita Nyong’o ’12MFA won Best Supporting Actress for her... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Minami Funakoshi ’14</span> | March 3 2014 03:38pm