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Big ideas

If you could pick the best areas for science research at Yale, what would they be?
By Dylan Walsh ’11MEM
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Trailblazers

Yale-NUS College is educating some remarkable people. We talked with a few of the first graduates.
By Caroline Lester ’14

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The three-minute thesis

In a Graduate School competition, PhD candidates try to reduce the work of several years to an elevator pitch.
By Alan Wechsler

Light & Verity

Student group questions financial aid policy

How much should students contribute financially to their education?
By Mark Alden Branch ’86

Findings

The high cost of a life-saving drug

A monthly supply of insulin can cost hundreds of dollars.
By Jenny Blair ’97, ’04MD

Light & Verity

Bean on Broadway
A piece of Maine in Yale’s neighborhood.
Another Yalie on SCOTUS? The post-paleo diet View all Light & Verity

Scene on Campus

The light fantastic
Salsa dancing on a summer night.
Home improvement Brutal competition View all Scene on Campus

Findings

When microbes go to school
Classroom desks are loaded with germs.
Why we’re helpless against doughnuts Spirituality and your brain View all Findings

Last Look

Home tiny home
In Midtown Manhattan, a tiny house with a purpose.
Revisiting the Lipstick, 50 years later Seeing the forest View all Last Look

Milestones

New senior trustee knows higher ed 
Catharine Bond Hill ’85PhD, former president of Vassar, now runs an education not-for-profit.
J. D. McClatchy, 1945–2018 Yale’s biggest fan View all Milestones

Arts & Culture

Group effort
The work of a master, restored.
Reviews: September/October 2018 Time travel View all Arts & Culture

Q&A: Peter Salovey

Public policy and the social sciences
Yale emphasizes a data-driven approach.
Pitching in Why a liberal arts education? View all Q&A: Peter Salovey

Sporting Life

Old Campus Olympian
Olympic medalist Nathan Chen ’22 prepares to be a first-year at Yale.
Spring sports highlights: two national titles Winter sports highlights: 2018 View all Sporting Life

From the Editor

Your daily dose of Yale
Every weekday, our online Daily Snap gives you a fresh glimpse of life on campus.
“Shoulder to the wheel” The year of women View all From the Editor

New Haven

New Haven’s artistic Oktoberfest
One month. 450 artists. 10,000 people viewing new art.
New life at an old library Elm City rebellion View all New Haven

Old Yale

The first Yalies
The Class of 1718 were the inaugural graduates of the newly named Yale College.
Starting strong Deciding to stay View all Old Yale

Where They Are Now

He tried for the CIA. Comedy was more fun.
David Litt ’08 was the “token funny person” on Barack Obama’s speechwriting team.
From trucker to fitness guru Yes, coal country has a future View all Where They Are Now

Scene on Campus

Better Living 101
In record numbers, students flock to a psychology course on the good life.
A room of one’s own A place for everything View all Scene on Campus

Light & Verity

Made in the shade
Students create an urban “parklet” in New Haven.
Preaching to the royals Honorary degree for Bill Cosby is rescinded View all Light & Verity

Web Extra

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The green fields of the mind
Baseball “breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.”
Calhoun College: a timeline List: 41 secret societies at Yale View all Web Extra

Alumni

A day’s work For better, for worse, and for Yale Crib notes to the AYA

Science & Health

“We wouldn’t have known if we hadn’t looked.” What they're making at the “maker space” Trouble sleeping? There’s hope.

Arts & Culture

The farewell tour Art as kaleidoscope How food became chic

Politics & Law

To have and have not Everyday justice Career change

Student Life

Get with the programming Eating at Yale has changed. Drastically. Who needs the Great Books?

Yale History

Conversation piece “The greatest mind in American history” The forgotten antiwar movement

Sports

Carm Cozza 1930–2018 Sit. Stay. Boola Boola. One of the greats

Campus

Perpetual motion The new college try A place of one’s own at Yale