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July 2014

  • Spizzwinks promote trade treaty in four-part harmony

    Europe’s trade with the US Is already one of the best But we think we can do even more. It’s a love song, in case you can’t... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 30 2014 05:14pm

  • Student entrepreneurs take on the New York competition

    In 2010, Siheun Song ’15MDiv and her friend Numaan Akram wanted to visit Washington, DC, to attend Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Colin Groundwater ’15</span> | July 29 2014 04:49pm

  • Yale alumnae and professor win medals for arts, humanities

    Two Yale alumni and an emeritus professor are receiving the nation’s highest honors for arts and humanities at the White House this afternoon.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 28 2014 03:01pm

  • Greg Hindy talks

    Last week, we told you about Greg Hindy ’13 and his remarkable year-long silent walk across the United States. After completing his journey two weeks ago... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Colin Groundwater</span> | July 24 2014 12:49pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1848-greg-hindy-talks?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 3 comments</a></span>

  • Burn down the Ivies?
    Ex-Yale prof lights the torch

    William Deresiewicz spent 24 years in the Ivy League: first as a Columbia undergraduate and grad student, then on the Yale faculty. His public biographies prominently feature those... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 24 2014 02:16pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1847-burn-down-the-ivies-br-ex-yale-prof-lights-the-torch?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 3 comments</a></span>

  • Houston, we have liftoff

    The seminar topic was borders, and particularly the US-Mexico border. The teacher, Alicia Schmidt Camacho—Yale professor of American Studies and... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 23 2014 10:02pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1846-houston-we-have-liftoff?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • Yale doesn’t offer bike commuter benefit as Harvard and MIT do

    Harvard does it. MIT does it. Down in the DC area, American and George Mason universities do it. These schools offer their employees the federally... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 22 2014 01:22pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1845-yale-doesn-t-offer-bike-commuter-benefit-as-harvard-and-mit-do?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • What to do with an AmStud major: start your own museum

    A friend used to poke fun at what she considered our children’s impractical choices of college majors by saying that my daughter was going to open a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 21 2014 04:40pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1844-what-to-do-with-an-amstud-major-start-your-own-museum?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • British art center will close next year for renovations

    You’ve read more than once in our pages the story of a Yale building that was once glorious, then neglected or abused, then, after many years of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 17 2014 11:57am

  • Teenaged globalists come to campus

    Two hundred teenagers pack into William L. Harkness Hall to hear Professor Jonathan Holloway ’95PhD, the new dean of Yale College. He’s about to... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Colin Groundwater ’15</span> | July 16 2014 03:15pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1841-teenaged-globalists-come-to-campus?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 2 comments</a></span>

  • Yacht club plan goes back to drawing board

    At the end of a contentious three-hour public meeting last night in Branford, Yale announced that it is withdrawing its plan to build a new boathouse next... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 15 2014 04:13pm

  • Ivy League senate battle on the Last Frontier

    Alaska Republicans will go to the polls next month to choose a Senate candidate to face incumbent Democrat Mark Begich in November. Since polling in the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 14 2014 03:48pm

  • ‘Hardwood philosopher’ studies religion on the court

    Onaje Woodbine ’02 quit the Yale basketball team to find himself as a scholar and a human being. Now a newly graduated PhD, he’s telling the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 10 2014 04:38pm

  • A year of silence comes to an end

    On July 9, 2013, Greg Hindy ’13 celebrated his 22nd birthday by seting up a video camera in his backyard and explaining how he would spend his... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Colin Groundwater ’15</span> | July 11 2014 11:07am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/1837-a-year-of-silence-comes-to-an-end?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • Solving for the unobservable

    Though you probably didn't notice, Dan Spielman ’92, the Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Yale, quietly changed... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Colin Groundwater</span> | July 9 2014 03:30pm

  • Yacht club sails into rough waters

    From time to time, Yale’s expansion plans bump up against neighborhood opposition. This summer, the neighborhood is not in New Haven, but in the shoreline... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 8 2014 04:27pm

  • Will chocolate e-cigs entice kids? Yale researchers investigate

    “They want data and they want it yesterday,” Yale tobacco researcher Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin tells Reuters. She’s speaking of the US... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL</span> | July 7 2014 05:19pm

  • “Damn the consequences. Give me the pen.”

    On every Fourth of July, at New Haven’s Grove Street Cemetery, men with muskets join with girls bearing wreaths to honor the signers of the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 3 2014 01:53pm

  • “Jazz Lives” at the Art Gallery

    Funeral bands march through the streets of New Orleans. Blues singer Ann “Mama Cookie” Cook poses in profile, eyes closed, amid unpainted... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | July 2 2014 04:20pm