DENVER — In a hotel ballroom here last week, David Broockman ’11 found his name on the tally sheet placed before him. He picked up a pen, thumbed over the right column and notched a simple checkmark. Then he signed his name.
With that swirl of the pen, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois came one vote closer to securing the Democratic nomination...
Clinking silverware, hearty laughter and well-suited young men spinning upside-down chalices on their heads have been staples of a typical Saturday night at Mory’s for decades. It was by happenstance that Mory’s even became an Eli-only tradition. More than 140 years ago, a group of Yale crew members casually stopped by Frank and Jane Moriarty’s taproom — Mory’s...
The School of Architecture alumnus desperately wanted to get in on the project to build two new residential colleges. He reached out to the University through intermediaries. His firm sent a portfolio to the University Planner’s office, pulling favors to get it to the top of the pile. An aide even e-mailed a reporter to ask for help in getting his name in the mix. Yet...
On a sunny post-Labor Day afternoon, Simone Berkower ’09 parted the curtains behind the treadmill in her room, turned the air conditioner on maximum power and sat back against the five pillows on her queen-size bed, freshly showered and dressed in summer garb. On a television nearby, pristine scenes of waterfalls and flower petals accompanied a hazy soprano...
BEIJING — In Beijing’s Silk Street Market, under a huge billboard that cries, “Shop with Confidence!”, foreigners mill through a disproportionately Western mob of shoppers who look mostly dazed and confused. “This is too overwhelming!” one young western woman cries with a loony chuckle as she races through the narrow aisle. A nearby shop owner tries to soothe...
University President Richard Levin needs a right-hand man, a scientist and a successor — and not necessarily in that order. With Provost Andrew Hamilton’s impending departure for the top job at Oxford, Levin needs a No. 2 to help guide the construction of two new residential colleges. He needs someone to help oversee the launch of the West Campus and Yale’s...
Close to a decade ago, Yale University set out on a mission: to acquire a few two-story houses tucked near the corner of Prospect and Canal streets. University administrators did not want the houses. They wanted the land on which the houses stood, because they forecasted erecting two new residential colleges there at some point in the future. And this year, that...
William Eldridge Odom, three-star general, former leader of the National Security Agency and Yale faculty member — a man who challenged preconceptions and defied expectations — died suddenly on Friday, May 30. He was 75. “We all remember the last time we saw him,” said political-science professor David Cameron, Odom’s colleague at Yale. “He was, as always...
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...
