Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:54pm
April opens her window and makes a clicking noise with her tongue. Ten meters outside the Yale residential college, a plump female squirrel named Lucky perks her ears and scampers over to the third-floor window.
Lucky, whose hazelnut coat is shaggy from recently giving birth, climbs a nearby tree and expertly crosses a bathrobe belt that April...
As a college student, Joan Steitz was fascinated by science. A chemistry major, Steitz stumbled upon molecular biology — then an emerging field — while assisting senior scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Through her laboratory stint, Steitz even befriended James Watson, one of the scientists responsible for discovering the DNA double helix. At...
With his smooth, friendly Southern drawl and South Carolina childhood, James Gustave Speth ’64 LAW ’69 doesn’t cut the figure of a typical environmentalist. But Speth, the dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, has made a career as an activist, government lawyer and international diplomat on behalf of the environment. And now, with the publication...
Two New Haven residents competing for the same legislative seat — that currently held by 32-year incumbent Rep. Bill Dyson — will draw on significantly different bases of support as August’s Democratic primary approaches. While Ward 20 Alderman Charles Blango has the backing several other aldermen — which provides, among other things, the access to Yale bestowed...
“There was one rule in my father’s apartment: I could not have sex with anyone, at all, while I lived with him. Sex anywhere else was fine — as long as he didn’t know about it.” Sitting on his couch in his Yale dorm room, Qiang Ye* ’08 continues matter-of-factly. “So I came home with this guy from [boarding] school who I had this huge crush on,” he says...
Easha Anand ’08 and Kezia Kamenetz ’09 can talk for hours about the new street signs that have cropped up lately around New Orleans, the flavor of Cajun food and the small boutiques that line the streets. They talk about the resilient spirit of a city that resists assimilation, and they talk about their hopes for its future. They talk, and worry, and plan for the...
One hundred million dollars may not buy a Yale graduate’s name for one of the two new residential colleges, but the New York Public Library apparently shares no such reservations. The name of Davenport College alumnus and one-time School of Management adjunct professor Stephen Schwarzman ’69 will soon grace the New York Public Library building in five different...
It is Tuesday morning at John C. Daniels Magnet School. Class is in session and the building is quiet, save for faint music echoing down the sunshine-flooded halls. Inside the music auditorium, more than a dozen sixth-grade students perch in front of music stands, flutes, clarinets and trumpets in hand. Some play Brahams, others Christmas carols. Music classes like this...
Soon after the late Eero Saarinen ARCH ’34 took the commission to design a new hockey rink for Yale in 1956, he sent an associate, David Powrie, on a trip. In a telephone interview last week, Powrie recalled his whirlwind journey across the northeast almost as a reconnaissance mission. He remembers cataloging the details of an assortment of New England’s many rinks...
For Alice Hodgkins ’11, it was simply a matter of checking a box on a form — and then, instead of walking through Phelps Gate with the class of 2010 last September, she was soaring above the clouds in North Carolina at the controls of a Cessna 150, earning her pilot’s license. That fall, as her would-be class adjusted to life on Old Campus, Hodgkins traveled to...
Jeff Brenzel has a lot of applications. When not sorting through this year’s record 22,528 candidates for admission to Yale College, the dean of undergraduate admissions occupies some of his spare time with quizzes, movie compatibility tests and videos on his crowded Facebook profile. Facebook connects him to another Yale administrator, Director of Public Affairs...