Issue Archives: 2014

September/October

Vol LXXVIII, No 1

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features

“That beautiful music of a new voice”

The extraordinary trajectory of a young playwright.

By Cathy Shufro Ico comments

Ico comments

features

A hundred years in the round

The Yale Bowl, dedicated in 1914, is a monument to Yale’s football history.

By Mark Alden Branch

features

Nature, nurture, or network?

Your friends and family influence your drinking, sleep, weight, and happiness—more than you think.

By Richard Conniff Ico comments

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From the Editor

Professors emeriti tell their stories

By Kathrin Lassila

Letters to the Editor

Drinking at Yale

Readers respond about senior societies, new colleges, and more.

Where They Are Now

Action in the wake of tragedy

An alumna works to prevent suicide.

By David Volk

Scene on Campus

Green lab

Farming on Yale’s western frontier.

New Haven

Teaching for the teachers

Yale faculty and New Haven teachers collaborate.

By Jennifer Kaylin

Old Yale

The first Yale Club

150 years ago, Cincinnati Yalies decided to meet more often.

By Judith Schiff

Last Look

The bird has landed

For Cross Campus, an evocative modern sculpture.

Q&A: Peter Salovey

Crossing the borders

Fostering cross-departmental thinking.

By Kathrin Lassila

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Light & Verity

Yale musicians play—and listen—in Ghana

A partnership to document Ghanaian drumming and dancing.

British art center will close for a year

An architectural work of art requires meticulous conservation.

Pickup band

Students in a summer music program pop up all over campus.

Summer school for the publishing industry

A course to help professionals keep up with a changing industry.

Yale’s first sixth-grade graduation

The West Campus houses a displaced school—and helps make its graduation special.

Non-required reading

Books recommended by faculty.

Quoted

Worth a thousand words

A recent grad spends a year walking across the country—in silence.

Campus clips

Milestones

More news of Yale people

White House honors for history prof

David Brion Davis has spent a lifetime studying slavery and its role in building America.

Findings

New growth

An arthritis drug restores hair to a patient with alopecia.

The deadly underside of food aid

During a civil war, shipments of food can do harm.

Ear training for nurses

Listening to the music of the body.

Success and the single passion

What drives us can influence how well we perform.

Noted

Arts & Culture

Books received

New books, music, films, or other works by Yale faculty, staff, and alumni.

A piece of the puzzle

Object lesson

Calendar

Output

Remembering Rob

The tragic story of an alum’s early death.

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