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June 2014

  • Alums remember: summering in New Haven

    For most of the years since I graduated from Yale, I’ve been a year-round resident of New Haven. But there was something special about the first... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | June 27 2014 11:46am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1827-alums-remember-summering-in-new-haven?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 2 comments</a></span>

  • Yalie filmmaker scrutinizes the Ivory Tower

    A trillion dollars of student debt. Higher price increases for college tuition than for any other good or service. College grads moving back in with their parents... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass 83, ’97MSL</span> | June 26 2014 02:16pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1826-yalie-filmmaker-scrutinizes-the-i-ivory-tower-i?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 2 comments</a></span>

  • In a recession, your major matters—or at least it used to

    Graduating from college during a recession disrupts people’s early careers—not just their employment prospects, but also their starting... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 25 2014 05:08pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1823-in-a-recession-your-major-matters-or-at-least-it-used-to?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • Hair today, bald recently

    In eight months, a young man from Connecticut went from completely bald to thickly thatched, thanks to a breakthrough treatment by a Yale dermatologist.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 24 2014 05:07pm

  • He was a Yalie? Ralph Waite, Walton daddy and div school grad

    Children of the ’70s know Ralph Waite ’56BD as the kindhearted patriarch of The Waltons, a rural Virginia family struggling through the Great... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 23 2014 05:27pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1821-he-was-a-yalie-ralph-waite-walton-daddy-and-div-school-grad?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • English prof moonlights as bicoastal rock star

    “In ways, it’s a lot like my academic work. We're endlessly revising,” says Yale English professor R. John Williams, talking about his side... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Colin Groundwater ’15</span> | June 20 2014 03:55pm

  • In Memoriam: paddler and poet

    One of the highlights of writing for this blog is that I hear about Yale alumni whose fascinating, and sometimes inspiring, lives would otherwise be unknown... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 19 2014 05:19pm

  • Do FDA labels gum up the works for stop-smoking products?

    Smoking kills. So does smokeless tobacco, which Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn blamed for the oral cancer that ended his life this week, at age... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 18 2014 05:34pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1817-do-fda-labels-gum-up-the-works-for-stop-smoking-products?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 2 comments</a></span>

  • Employee charged with taking kickbacks for A/V contracts

    A federal grand jury has indicted a Yale employee for allegedly taking kickbacks from university audio/visual contractors over the course of nine years.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 17 2014 03:09pm

  • Teach it forward: four alumni who are firing up their students

    From time to time, we’ve asked Yale alumni to share their recollections of memorable Yale professors and of the one course they’ll never... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 16 2014 04:55pm

  • ‘Raped at Yale’: Amanda Ruggeri on why she didn’t speak out

    “Over the years, more than a dozen female friends have told me they were raped,” Amanda Ruggeri ’07 writes. “Not one of us reported... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 12 2014 04:07pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1814-raped-at-yale-amanda-ruggeri-on-why-she-didn-t-speak-out?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 2 comments</a></span>

  • Yale sets its sights on Lower Dixwell

    The west end of New Haven’s Broadway area has not seen much change during the Yale-driven makeover of the past two decades, but the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | June 13 2014 02:11pm

  • The early bird gets the rave

    They could have danced all night . . . but instead, they got up early and went to Daybreaker, “a morning movement that will start your day off unlike... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83,’97MSL</span> | June 11 2014 04:55pm

  • Blue blood, red agent? New book on alleged mole Duncan Lee ’35

    When The Good Shepherd came out a few years ago, we watched the fictionalized story of how General William “Wild Bill” Donovan recruited Yale men... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 10 2014 05:28pm

  • New residential colleges, long on the back burner, are finally a go

    The long-delayed expansion of Yale College is finally a go, President Peter Salovey ’86PhD announced last week. First broached publicly in 2006... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 9 2014 05:01pm

  • For a school rich in poetry, now an endowed professorship

    A Google search for “Yale” and “poetry” produces an array of results: free online video of English professor Langdon... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 4 2014 11:56am

  • Gina Raimondo ’98JD wins an election—to Yale Corporation

    Gina Raimondo ’98JD is in a tight race for Rhode Island’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination. But this week, she scored an election... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | June 4 2014 11:35am

  • Coed sailing wins second straight national title

    For the second straight year, the coed sailing team  claimed the national team championship this weekend with a victory at the APS Team Race... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Colin Groundwater ’15</span> | June 3 2014 10:36am