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  • Sonia Sotomayor ’79JD

    For Sonia Sotomayor ’79JD, it was a Memorial Day to remember. That’s the night when, after weeks of speculation, President Barack... Read on
    the staff | May 29 2009 11:46am

  • Steven Calabresi ’80, ’83JD, David McIntosh ’80 & Lee Liberman Otis ’79

    Not all is misery on the right these days. Just ask the co-founders of the Federalist Society: they and their organization of conservative law students... Read on
    the staff | May 8 2009 11:42am

  • Lynn Nottage ’89MFA

    She pulled down a MacArthur “genius” prize two years ago, so perhaps it was just a matter of time until playwright Lynn Nottage... Read on
    the staff | April 25 2009 11:37am

  • Rachel Kauder Nalebuff ’13

    Mom’s a successful arts administrator. Dad teaches at the Yale School of Management and co-founded a profitable beverage company.... Read on
    the staff | March 20 2009 11:25am

  • Alexis Ringwald ’05, ’06MEM, & Caroline Howe ’07

    First there was the French Fry Mobile, driving around the U.S. on used fast-food grease to demonstrate that biodiesel works. Now comes the India Climate... Read on
    the staff | February 20 2009 10:09am

  • Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins ’84MDiv

    The inaugural prayers offered by Rick Warren, Joseph Lowery, and Gene Robinson each kicked up their own mini-controversies. But the Reverend... Read on
    the staff | January 23 2009 09:35am

  • Elizabeth Alexander ’84

    Ever since Robert Frost read “The Gift Outright” at John F. Kennedy’s swearing-in, Democrats have had a thing for inaugural bards.... Read on
    the staff | December 19 2008 09:28am

  • Anne Wojcicki ’96

    When Anne Wojcicki ’96 and her husband, Google cofounder Sergey Brin, have their first child in November, they’ll have more than a... Read on
    the staff | October 31 2008 10:18am

  • Camille Paglia ’74PhD

    The reaction of most left-leaning critics and commentators to the choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate has been uniform and... Read on
    the staff | October 10 2008 10:12am

  • Chimamanda Adichie ’08MA

    As the object of daydreams, the $500,000 MacArthur Fellowships are even better than the lottery in that you don’t have to buy a ticket—the... Read on
    the staff | September 26 2008 09:52am

  • Sada Jacobson ’06

    Sada Jacobson ’06 had one more thing to do before starting law school at the University of Michigan this fall: compete in the Olympic Games... Read on
    the staff | August 15 2008 02:52pm

  • Meryl Streep ’75MFA

    Meryl Streep ’75MFA didn’t get 14 Oscar nominations for just doing the same-old same-old. This weekend, she turns up singing and dancing in, of... Read on
    the staff | July 18 2008 02:46pm

  • Vanessa Selbst ’05

    Vanessa Selbst ’05 has always been a competitor. She played tennis and hockey at MIT, then rugby after transferring to Yale. These days... Read on
    the staff | June 20 2008 02:41pm

  • Indra Nooyi ’80MPPM

    It’s hard to find a woman higher on the ladder of success than Yale trustee Indra Nooyi ’80MPPM, chair and CEO of Pepsico since 2006.... Read on
    the staff | May 9 2008 02:33pm

  • Hillary Clinton ’73JD

    The Yale Alumni Magazine is emphatically not in the business of endorsing presidential candidates, but for newsworthiness this week, it’s... Read on
    the staff | April 25 2008 02:31pm

  • Erna Schneider Hoover ’52PhD

    For designing the first computerized switching system for telephone calls, Bell Labs researcher Erna Schneider Hoover ’52PhD was awarded... Read on
    the staff | February 15 2008 01:19pm