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Introduction: solutions for a planet in peril

The features in this issue focus on efforts by Yale and Yale alumni to mitigate climate change.

Light & Verity

Kicking off the new year
The Yale wushu team helps celebrate the Year of the Snake.
Would-be witness Elis in the Trump administration View all Light & Verity

Scene on Campus

Good vibrations
The Yale Percussion Group strikes the right tone.
A night at the museum Heading out on FOOT View all Scene on Campus

Findings

What we could gain from weight-loss drugs
Making them more widely available could save 42,000 lives a year.
Wearables may offer clues to psychiatric diagnoses The Supreme Court's 1925 makeover View all Findings

Last Look

Let the sunshine in
Ancient sculpture sees daylight in the Art Gallery.
Taking to the water Air mail View all Last Look

Milestones

Lifelong learner
Kem Edwards '49 made the most of his second Yale career.
After 44 years, an autism pioneer steps down Gendler stepping down as FAS dean View all Milestones

Arts & Culture

Royal rocks
Louis XIV was fascinated with sandstone gogottes like this one in the Peabody Museum.
Reviews: March/April 2025 Table for two View all Arts & Culture

President's Letter

Shaping Yale's future
Building bridges to support our students The impact of a teacher View all President's Letter

Sporting Life

Postseason potential
Ivy football teams get a shot at a national title.
Fall sports highlights Spring sports highlights View all Sporting Life

From the Editor

Reminiscence, a farewell, and gratitude
Kathrin Day Lassila '81 is retiring after 21 years as editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine.
A Black American poet gets his due For the love of his city View all From the Editor

New Haven

Saying goodbye to Margaret Holloway
A drama school alum who became known as the "Shakespeare Lady."
Banner years A place to live with HIV and AIDS View all New Haven

Old Yale

Early bloomer
Robert Maynard Hutchins's precocious Yale career.
Partez! Fit for a president View all Old Yale

Where They Are Now

Lisa Sanders is on the case
The Yale doctor behind the New York Times "Diagnosis" column.
Culinary quest A Yalie's route to the NFL View all Where They Are Now

Scene on Campus

How (not) to grow a garden
An experiment in a rooftop greenhouse on Science Hill.
Biking away A view from the sky View all Scene on Campus

Light & Verity

Using the institutional voice
A faculty committee weighs in on speaking out.
Yale’s first post-affirmative-action class Big plans for Science Hill View all Light & Verity

Web Extra

Yale strawberry shortcake
An alum remembered the dining hall dessert fondly, so his family recreated it for his 93rd birthday.
When Yale buildings speak
 The green fields of the mind View all Web Extra

Student Life

A generation in crisis The shanties on the plaza Old friend

Arts & Culture

Rudolph, reconsidered American studies Persuasive art

Sports

Pain and courage: reorienting a life World class Firepower

Science & Health

They care Communing with creation The ancient past: new and improved

Faculty & Staff

Reshaping the story History lessons Poetry that shakes your heart

Yale History

Another country Yale, slavery, and its aftermaths Megaphone Mark, the SDS Scuffle Band, and the birth of Doonesbury

Politics & Law

"Wreak yourself upon the world" The future of voting "The years that we've lost"

International

Eyeing the future, grappling with the past Wanderer Neither here nor there