Yale team sails to national championship
It's not just frozen-water skaters who can bring home a national trophy. This weekend, Yale's coed sailing team won a three-day tournament, the College Sailing/APS Team Race Championship—the...
View ArticleTwo new faces for Yale Corporation: Hill & Bekenstein
An oilman and conservationist is retiring from Yale's governing board, to be replaced by a moneyman and cofounder of Bain Capital. At the same time, a college president will succeed a retired art...
View ArticleWomen's crew pulls into NCAA tournament
Nine a.m. is not early for crew athletes, who are accustomed to strenuous predawn workouts. So when the Yale varsity women's crew hits the water Friday morning at 9:10, they should be well-rested for...
View ArticleRethinking the gateway to Broadway
The salad-and-sandwich chain Au Bon Pain occupied the rounded art-deco corner of York Street and Broadway for 19 years—nearly as long as the presidency of Richard Levin ’74PhD. But Levin—who as...
View Article'Don't Read This. Look Up!'
What started as a Yale Day of Service activity last month turned into a June 1 Day of Warning Yale Pedestrians To Pay Attention as they cross dangerous intersections around the medical center."Don't...
View ArticleVan de Velde settles suit over unsolved Jovin murder (updated)
A former Yale faculty member who was publicly named as a suspect—but never charged—in the 1998 murder of his student has settled his last remaining legal claims against the university and New Haven...
View ArticleNew melanoma drug stirs excitement
The test results are early—and sponsored by the drug manufacturer—but scientists and journalists alike are excited about the prospects of a new drug for treating deadly skin cancer.Yale oncologist...
View ArticleImmunologist Medzhitov wins$5.1 million science prize
Ruslan Medzhitov is making a habit out of winning new science prizes.A German foundation announced today that its inaugural Else Kröner-Fresenius Award will go to Medzhitov, the David W. Wallace...
View ArticleLevin vows Yale's return to troubled neighborhood
Just weeks after canceling an affordable-housing project where an elderly professor was assaulted, Yale president Rick Levin ’74PhD promised yesterday that the university is not abandoning New Haven's...
View ArticleCan texting stop AIDS in Uganda? Apparently not, study finds
Information is power, they say. But when Google and the Grameen Foundation provided free information about HIV and safer sex to powerless women in Uganda, the program backfired.That's the finding of...
View Article'However far I can pedal' for vets
"As a veteran I have been lucky twice,"writes Neil Mulligan’01MFA: "First as an infantryman in the relatively quick Gulf War and second as a medic in the relative safety of a military hospital in...
View ArticleYale Law School challenges NSA order on Verizon records
Yale law students and faculty have joined the fray over National Security Agency collection of Verizon customers' phone call data.The Law School's Media Freedom and Access Clinic, together with the...
View ArticleSOM's new home: seven months till takeoff
For months, New Haveners have passed by the blue-wrapped structure on Whitney Avenue, across from the Peabody Museum, and wondered what the Yale School of Management's new home will look like when it's...
View ArticleCancer counselor 'thrilled' with ruling on gene patents
A US Supreme Court decision today means "cheaper, faster and better genetic testing" for Yale cancer patients, says Ellen Matloff, director of genetic counseling at the Yale Cancer Center and a...
View ArticleCombat-to-college program marches forward
The Warrior Scholar Project—an academic boot camp for college-bound veterans—is on the march.Launched last year by two Yalies, Jesse Reising’11 and Chris Howell’13, the project this year has doubled...
View ArticleLooking through a glass organ
In the photo they look like odd-shaped bottles, perhaps hanging in an old-fashioned farmhouse kitchen. In real life, the green glass objects are small—no more than four inches long—resembling peppers...
View ArticleYODA's the name; open science is the game
In a striking experiment in research transparency, a Yale-managed project has used a medical company's own clinical data to rebut its previous claims about a product."If open science is to take flight...
View ArticleWi-Phi: a Yale-MIT answer tothe question 'why philosophy?'
"Sizes of Infinity.""God and Morality.""The Problem of Evil." (That last one is a three-part series: evil is a big problem.)These are among dozens of animated lectures available for free on Wi-Phi, a...
View ArticleForgot to steal your college china? Now you can buy it.
A while back, we reported that Yale's residential college dining halls were no longer using their separate, distinctive china patterns. In the name of efficiency and economy, all 12 dining halls are...
View ArticleFor working-class Britons, Ivies seem friendlier than Oxbridge
Yale and Harvard, modeled after Oxford and Cambridge, are enticing some of the UK's top public-school students away from England's most prestigious universities, the Sunday Times of London reports.The...
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