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Every Friday, we choose an alum who has been making headlines—for better or for worse.

Nicholas Katzenbach ’47LLB: JFK, LBJ, MLK—he knew them all.

Nicholas Katzenbach ’47LLB left Princeton in the middle of his junior year to serve in World War II. After his plane was shot down in... Read on

the staff | May 10 2012 11:48am
Jake Stoller ’12: A Bulldog becomes a man of steel.

Jake Stoller grew up outside the Rust Belt football town of Cleveland. After a four-year stop in New Haven, the graduating Yale senior is... Read on

the staff | May 3 2012 12:03pm
Reverend Dorsey McConnell ’75: A mending job for a man of the cloth.

Four years ago, a hotly contested vote laid bare the deep divisions between arch-conservatives and their opponents. Now, a new election held promise of... Read on

the staff | April 26 2012 12:21pm
Kaitlyn Trigger ’06: A love story written in code.

Behind every billion-dollar man, they say, stands an awesome woman. In this case, she is also Awesome—a trustee of the San Francisco... Read on

the staff | April 19 2012 12:46pm
Reed Whittemore ’41: A poet of the prosaic passes.

A famous poet you may have never heard of died last week. Reed Whittemore ’41—twice poet laureate of the United States—passed away on... Read on

the staff | April 12 2012 09:35am
Angela Buchdahl ’94: A rabbi with Seoul.

At her Passover seder Friday night, Angela Buchdahl ’94 will be commanded—like other Jews around the world—to feel... Read on

the staff | April 5 2012 12:09pm
Donald Verrilli ’79: Defending Obamacare, one cough at a time.

For readers previously unfamiliar with Donald Verrilli ’79, last Saturday’s New York Times profile sketched... Read on

the staff | March 29 2012 11:53am
Bettina Siegel ’87: A food blogger takes on “pink slime.”

This is a good week to be a vegetarian. For the meat eaters among us, take a peek at the work of Bettina Siegel... Read on

the staff | March 22 2012 12:15pm
Anna Maria Chávez ’90: Launching the Girl Scouts’ second century.

This week of St. Patrick’s Day, Irish-Americans aren’t the only ones wearing green. The Girl Scouts celebrated their 100th birthday on... Read on

the staff | March 15 2012 11:15am
Jamie Williams ’85, ’89MES: A fossil-fuel scion fights for the wilderness.

Scion of a multibillion-dollar fossil fuel business, Jamie Williams ’85, ’89MES, now finds himself on the receiving end of an... Read on

the staff | March 9 2012 10:54am
Sarah Parcak ’01: A “space archeologist’s” Egyptian eye in the sky.

Sarah Parcak ’01 uses the newest technology in the sky to find some of the oldest things under the sun. An Egyptologist and self-styled... Read on

the staff | March 1 2012 12:53pm
Nicholas Rastenis ’08Dra: Poster child for a work-starved generation.

Nearly four years after leaving the Yale School of Drama, Nick Rastenis is working in pictures. But not the Hollywood kind, or even the indie... Read on

the staff | February 23 2012 12:17pm
Jamie Pedersen ’90, ’94JD: An ex-Boy Scout helps win gay marriage in Washington State.

Jamie Pedersen ’90, ’94JD, is a clean-cut, boyish-looking legislator in Washington State. A former Boy Scout... Read on

the staff | February 16 2012 11:21am
Ann Olivarius ’77, ’86JD, ’86MBA: A feminist pioneer keynotes Sex Week.

Thirty-five years ago, just after graduating from Yale College, Ann Olivarius ’77, ’86JD, ’86MBA, sued her alma mater... Read on

the staff | February 9 2012 12:48pm
Thomas Hobson ’04: A song-and-dance man for the preschool set.

One band member is named Twist, another is Shout, and they’re nearly as popular as the Beatles—among preschoolers. That’s... Read on

the staff | February 2 2012 01:22pm
Robert Needlman ’81, ’85MD: “The new Dr. Spock” updates the parents’ bible.

In the 65 years since Benjamin Spock ’25 published his bestseller Baby and Child Care, babies and children probably... Read on

the staff | January 27 2012 08:33am
Stefan Pryor ’93, ’06JD: A turnaround plan for Connecticut schools.

The phrase “Connecticut schools” might conjure images of blond children, green lacrosse fields, and black Lexuses. Despite Connecticut’s... Read on

the staff | January 19 2012 12:18pm
Zachary Katz ’99, ’05JD: Broadband in every pot.

If your image of the Federal Communications Commission still revolves around handing out broadcast licenses and regulating George Carlin’s... Read on

the staff | January 12 2012 12:10pm
Sarah Eidelson ’12: A senior joins New Haven’s Board of Aldermen.

It is one of the peculiarities of New Haven politics that Yale students control an entire ward of the city, and thus a seat on the Board of Aldermen.... Read on

the staff | January 5 2012 11:51am
12/23/11: Kimberly Goff-Crews ’83, ’86JD

Yale students want advice on their sex lives—from university administrators. So says a report on the “campus... Read on

the staff | January 3 2012 02:19pm