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Jul/Aug 2021

"I learn by going where I have to go"

I’ve had the chance to listen to hundreds of students confide their hopes and uncertainties about charting a course in life. I have counseled...

Jul/Aug 2021

A six-legged tribute

One of the perks of being a scientist—if you’re lucky—is naming a new species. When taxonomist Douglas Booher, a postdoc at the...

Sep/Oct 2021

Frederick Law Olmsted at Yale

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) is remembered mainly as the designer of such public spaces as Central Park, Boston’s Emerald Necklace...

Sep/Oct 2021

Reviews: September/October 2021

Notes on GriefChimamanda Ngozi Adichie ’08MAKnopf, $16Reviewed by Sylvia Brownrigg ’86Grief, like love, is a universal that shocks in...

Nov/Dec 2021

Chaucer, medicine, and the stars

“Would you like to know something about the stars?” the eagle asks his ward, Geffrey, the narrator in Geoffrey Chaucer’s...

Nov/Dec 2021

Hero's welcome

One hundred years ago this fall, French military leader Ferdinand Foch came to America for a triumphal tour. Among the many stops on his visit was...

Jan/Feb 2022

The man who believed too much

Just after sunset on May 8, 1922, a thick crowd of Yale students, professors, curious locals, and women in mourning dress filed into Woolsey Hall...

Jan/Feb 2022

A life transformed by mambo

Robert Farris Thompson ’55, ’65PhD, looked very much like someone who went to Andover and Yale in the 1950s, which he was: Brooks...

May/Jun 2022

Spring dancing

“When they turned the stage lights on it was like, ‘Wow, I forgot what this feels like,’” says Talia Rothstein, a...

Jul/Aug 2022

A promise met

The problem with writing about Patricia Melton ’83 is that there’s much too much to write about. You may have heard that she’s the...

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