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  • Prof’s mugging cancels neighborhood architecture project

    The foundation was already in. But after an 83-year-old professor was assaulted at the building site, Yale architecture students and faculty have canceled... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | May 21 2013 12:26pm

  • Levin honored at commencement

    There aren't a lot of surprises at a Yale commencement, which goes off like clockwork every year with the same hymns, the same language for the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 20 2013 11:22am

  • You've got to MOOC

    Early to the online-education party with the free video lectures known as Open Yale Courses, Yale has sat out the more recent phenomenon called... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | May 20 2013 10:43am

  • Last-minute goal ends men's lacrosse season

    Last weekend, the men's lacrosse team came back from a 5–1 deficit to beat Penn State 10–7 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. It... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 18 2013 01:45pm

  • Yale fined $165,000 for crime-report violations

    Nine years after the US Department of Education began to investigate questions about Yale's reporting of campus crime, the department has fined the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 16 2013 06:03am

  • Walking across America—in silence

    If you see a young man walking the highway some time in the next year—pushing a jogging stroller full of belongings and wielding a 4x5 view... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 15 2013 11:43am

  • Violence expert learnsa lesson the hardest way

    Lori Post was studying violence long before it struck home. With a PhD in sociology and an emphasis on injury prevention, she researched domestic... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | May 15 2013 06:20am

  • Sterling's nave to close for a year

    Take a good look at the nave of Sterling Memorial Library this month if you can—you're not going to see it again till the fall of 2014. On... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 14 2013 08:05am

  • Weekly sports roundup (5/6–12): lacrosse advances at NCAAs

    Trailing Penn State 5–1 at halftime, the men's lacrosse team turned things around in the second half to pull off a 10–7 upset in the first... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 13 2013 11:45am

  • Gatsby's Yalies

    With Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby opening today, two of the best known fictional Yalies again come to the fore: the snobbish, racist bully Tom... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 10 2013 10:08am

  • Back to high school? Whiffenpoofs on ‘Glee’ tonight

    Tonight's season finale of Glee is “All Or Nothing”: “It’s finally time for Regionals, and the glee club is more... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | May 9 2013 08:39am

  • After arson threat, Jewish center remains ‘open and welcoming’

    An apparent arson threat against Yale’s Jewish center has produced extra security measures but no raising of the drawbridge. “We are... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83,’97MSL | May 8 2013 08:35am

  • Psst! Wanna buy a street?

    Yale and New Haven City Hall have reached a deal to sell parts of two downtown streets to the university. Under the agreement, which needs approval... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | May 7 2013 09:57am

  • Weekly Sports Roundup, 4/29–5/5

    The No. 15 men's lacrosse team is going to the NCAA tournament for the second year in a row. This weekend at the Ivy League tournament at Cornell, the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 6 2013 08:10am

  • Next Saturday: 2013 Yale Day of Service

    So what do you have planned a week from tomorrow? Maybe you want to play dodgeball with kids in Hong Kong? Or stencil sidewalks to promote... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 3 2013 11:35am

  • A wrinkle, perhaps in time to predict autism

    The placenta is the Rodney Dangerfield of medical research: it don't get no respect. "Wanting to study it," the New York Times says of Yale School of... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | May 2 2013 10:54am

  • The 17-year itch

    "I counted 10 cicada larvae in a 4x6 foot patch of garden,” a friend posted on Facebook the other day. Comments ranged from... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | May 1 2013 07:59am

  • Weekly Sports Roundup (4/22–4/28)

    For the third year in a row, Yale's women's tennis team is the Ivy League champion. The team secured its title—shared with Columbia—with a 6–1 win over... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 30 2013 06:20am

  • Tim Taylor, winningest Yale men's hockey coach, dies at 71

    The winningest men's hockey coach in Yale history died Saturday, two weeks after Yale won its first-ever national hockey championship. Tim Taylor... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | April 29 2013 09:24am