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  • A dancer’s return to Yale Rep

    Just a week after the racially motivated murders of nine people in Charleston, dancer Carmen de Lavallade took the stage at New Haven’s... Read on
    Jennifer Bruno ’15MA | July 6 2015 01:32pm

  • Jill Kargman ’95 writes herself onto the screen

    Yale meant a lot to Jill Kargman ’95, but she finds the current obsession of Upper East Side parents with college to be “a little psycho.” Her new TV... Read on
    Jennifer Bruno ’15MA | June 8 2015 05:02pm

  • The Yalie who taught the world to sing

    Warning: this post contains spoilers for the final episode of Mad Men. If you caught the series finale of the TV drama Mad Men, you saw how the life... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 19 2015 05:00pm

  • $150M gift to create a “state-of-the-art campus center”

    When Yale built Commons dining hall, Memorial Hall, Woolsey Hall, and Woodbridge Hall in 1901 to celebrate its bicentennial, the buildings were more than... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 14 2015 01:03pm | Ico comments 1 comment

  • On living well: William Zinsser dies at 92

    William Zinsser—longtime Yale writing teacher, author of the classic guide On Writing Well, master of Branford College, and former editor of this... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | May 12 2015 05:23pm | Ico comments 5 comments

  • Yale acquires ‘definitive’ trove of Lincoln and Civil War-era photos

    In 1897, Frederick Hill Meserve began a family history project. Five generations later, his family’s collection tells the story of an entire... Read on
    Anya Grenier ’15 | April 14 2015 12:40pm

  • Isn’t it Romantic?

    Frequent visitors to the Yale Center for British Art may be surprised to see some of its signature paintings—George Stubbs’s Lion Attacking a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 6 2015 02:40pm

  • Colleges compete for culinary kudos

    Commons looked like the set of Top Chef last night as undergrads from Yale’s 12 residential colleges competed in the annual Final Cut student... Read on
    Jane Darby Menton ’15 | February 25 2015 04:35pm

  • Alumna among Windham Campbell winners

    A Yale alumna is among this year’s recipients of the Windham Campbell Literature Prizes. Jackie Sibblies Drury ’03 was one of the nine writers... Read on
    Jane Darby Menton ’15 | February 24 2015 01:47pm

  • With Siren dating app, Susie Lee revives art of flirting online

    Susie Lee ’94 graduated from Yale with a degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. Now she is an artist, and her latest project is an app that... Read on
    Anya Grenier ’15 | February 18 2015 12:22pm

  • Yale at the Grammys

    You have to scroll down a bit past Sam Smith and Beck to find the Yale alumni on the list of this year’s Grammy award winners, but they’re a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 9 2015 11:02am

  • Twitch founders headline technology summit

    Justin Kan ’05 and Emmett Shear ’05 were disappointed to find only one Halloween costume among the crowd in a packed Evans Hall last... Read on
    Anya Grenier ’15 | November 4 2014 02:50pm

  • Dear white person: want to be in a movie?

    Just two years after graduating from Yale, Justin Dobies ’12 has a role in one of the most talked-about movies of the season. You can see him in Dear... Read on
    Anya Grenier ’15 | October 21 2014 03:39pm

  • Fifty-six years later, ’58 Whiffenpoofs still singing

    “We will serenade our Louis, while life and voice shall last / Then we’ll pass and be forgotten with the rest.” Those words... Read on
    Eric Stern ’15 | October 14 2014 03:45pm | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Undergrad playwright makes a splash with ‘Dry Land’

    Ruby Rae Spiegel ’15 had her first full-length play produced last March by the Yale Dramat. Six months later, that show, Dry Land, is on stage in New York... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | September 15 2014 05:08pm

  • Stephanie the Riveter

    The federal government’s biggest photography project ever—170,000 pictures from the 1930s and ’40s, by the likes of Dorothea Lange and... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | September 3 2014 08:00pm

  • Skull and Bones on the small screen

    If you can’t get enough about Yale’s secret societies, there’s good news for you: some time in the foreseeable future, there may be two... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 15 2014 03:55pm

  • In honor of Dr. Death

    My sophomore year, I lived in the Saybrook tower downstairs from Robert Parker. It took a while to learn that was his name. Everyone called him Dr.... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | August 14 2014 03:51pm

  • Photographs of war, at home and abroad

    Like many a young American boy, Peter van Agtmael ’03 wanted to join the army when he grew up. He was in fifth grade during the Gulf War, and the quick... Read on
    Colin Groundwater ’15 | August 8 2014 11:19am