The 17-year itch
"I counted 10 cicada larvae in a 4x6 foot patch of garden,” a friend posted on Facebook the other day. Comments ranged from “disgusting!!” to “ewww,” with a frowny face.Not so at Yale’s Peabody Museum...
View ArticleA wrinkle, perhaps in time to predict autism
The placenta is the Rodney Dangerfield of medical research: it don't get no respect. "Wanting to study it," the New York Times says of Yale School of Medicine researcher Harvey Kliman, "was considered...
View ArticleNext Saturday: 2013 Yale Day of Service
So what do you have planned a week from tomorrow? Maybe you want to play dodgeball with kids in Hong Kong? Or stencil sidewalks to promote pedestrian safety in New Haven? Or sing to the elderly in Los...
View ArticleWeekly Sports Roundup, 4/29–5/5
The No. 15 men's lacrosse team is going to the NCAA tournament for the second year in a row. This weekend at the Ivy League tournament at Cornell, the Bulldogs beat Penn 9–6 in the semifinal game...
View ArticlePsst! Wanna buy a street?
Yale and New Haven City Hall have reached a deal to sell parts of two downtown streets to the university.Under the agreement, which needs approval from the city's Board of Aldermen, Yale would pay a...
View ArticleAfter arson threat, Jewish center remains ‘open and welcoming’
An apparent arson threat against Yale’s Jewish center has produced extra security measures but no raising of the drawbridge.“We are planning to proceed with all scheduled services and events . . ....
View ArticleBack to high school? Whiffenpoofs on ‘Glee’ tonight
Tonight's season finale of Glee is “All Or Nothing”: “It’s finally time for Regionals, and the glee club is more determined than ever to advance to Nationals,” says the episode synopsis.But as the Yale...
View ArticleGatsby's Yalies
With Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby opening today, two of the best known fictional Yalies again come to the fore: the snobbish, racist bully Tom Buchanan, Class of 1915 (played this time by Joel...
View ArticleWeekly sports roundup (5/6–12): lacrosse advances at NCAAs
Trailing Penn State 5–1 at halftime, the men's lacrosse team turned things around in the second half to pull off a 10–7 upset in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday. The win puts the...
View ArticleSterling's nave to close for a year
Take a good look at the nave of Sterling Memorial Library this month if you can—you're not going to see it again till the fall of 2014. On June 3, construction work will begin on a project to...
View ArticleViolence expert learnsa lesson the hardest way
Lori Post was studying violence long before it struck home.With a PhD in sociology and an emphasis on injury prevention, she researched domestic violence and helped design information systems to screen...
View ArticleWalking across America—in silence
If you see a young man walking the highway some time in the next year—pushing a jogging stroller full of belongings and wielding a 4x5 view camera—say hello for us. But don't expect him to say anything...
View ArticleYale fined $165,000 for crime-report violations
Nine years after the US Department of Education began to investigate questions about Yale's reporting of campus crime, the department has fined the university $165,000* for its failure to report four...
View ArticleLast-minute goal ends men's lacrosse season
Last weekend, the men's lacrosse team came back from a 5–1 deficit to beat Penn State 10–7 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. It was nothing new—they had trailed at one point in each of their...
View ArticleYou've got to MOOC
Early to the online-education party with the free video lectures known as Open Yale Courses, Yale has sat out the more recent phenomenon called MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses. Until now.Starting...
View ArticleLevin honored at commencement
There aren't a lot of surprises at a Yale commencement, which goes off like clockwork every year with the same hymns, the same language for the conferring of degrees, and the same stately procession....
View ArticleProf’s mugging cancels neighborhood architecture project
The foundation was already in. But after an 83-year-old professor was assaulted at the building site, Yale architecture students and faculty have canceled plans to build an affordable home in New...
View ArticleCampus sexual climate: mix of sun & clouds
"With regard to its approach to sexual misconduct, the Yale of today is substantially different—and better—from the Yale of last year or two years ago."That's the view of Yale College students,...
View ArticleSully, we hardly knew ye
Sullivan's on Chapel, the shamrock-bedecked watering hole for generations of Yalies (since its former days as Kavanagh's), is closing."Yes it is true," says a posting on the bar's Facebook page....
View ArticleYale to pay $3 million for High and Wall Streets
Four blocks of city streets in the heart of New Haven—and the heart of Yale's campus—will be sold to the university for $3 million. The deal between Yale and the city government has yet to be...
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