Author: Admin

  • Nordhaus Wins Nobel Prize

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    Editor’s Note:  Not technically News from our Class, Nordhaus was on the faculty from 1967 on.  If you studied under him, please leave comments below. (Source: New York Times, Oct. 8, 2018)
    WASHINGTON — The 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded on Monday to a pair of American economists, William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer, for their work highlighting the importance of government policy in fostering sustainable economic growth. Mr. Nordhaus was honored for pioneering the assessment of the economic impact of climate change, including his advocacy for governments to tax carbon emissions.

  • Yale’s Swensen Invests in $400 Million Crypto Fund

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    from CNBC. The most influential endowment manager just jumped into crypto with bets on two Silicon Valley funds Swensen, who manages Yale’s $29.4 billion endowment, has invested in two funds dedicated to cryptocurrencies, sources tell CNBC. The funds are run by Andreessen Horowitz and Paradigm, which was started by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang. The investment marks a much-needed vote of confidence for the volatile asset class. Swensen started…

  • Online Search Tool ‘Lifting a Veil’ on Yale’s Collections

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    Archives at Yale, a new software tool launched in early September, allows students, faculty, and other researchers to search more precisely across and within more than 5,000 collections held by 10 Yale libraries and museums. The new tool is based on a widely used open-source web application — which means that Yale’s investment in developing it will benefit other libraries and museums around the world. “Yale’s collections are unusually large and diverse, with unique information…

  • Yale Is New Target Over Alleged Anti-Asian Bias

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    U.S. Education and Justice Departments are investigating. University says its practices are legal. https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/09/27/us-reveals-investigation-alleged-anti-asian-bias-yale By Scott Jaschik September 27, 2018 The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice revealed Wednesday that they are conducting an investigation into whether Yale University discriminates against Asian American applicants. The investigation comes as a lawsuit making similar claims against Harvard University — and backed by the Justice Department — is about to go to trial. Yale, in a statement sent to students and faculty members,…

  • The Long Decline of DKE, Brett Kavanaugh’s Fraternity at Yale

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    By Eren Orbey September 25, 2018   Last week, after Christine Blasey Ford went public with an allegation that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a party in high school, the Yale Daily News published an old photograph that directed scrutiny to the Supreme Court nominee’s college years. In the black-and-white image, two brothers of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity march across Yale’s campus in an initiation rite, one of them carrying a flag fashioned…

  • Yale Researchers ‘Teleport’ a Quantum Gate

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    By Jim Shelton September 5, 2018 Yale University researchers have demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for modular quantum computers: the “teleportation” of a quantum gate between two qubits, on demand. The findings appear online Sept. 5 in the journal Nature. The key principle behind this new work is quantum teleportation, a unique feature of quantum mechanics that has previously been used to transmit unknown quantum states between two parties without…

  • Ten Things They Didn’t Tell You At Freshman Orientation (WSJ)

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    (By David Gelernter.   Mr. Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale and chief scientist at Dittach LLC.) https://www.wsj.com/articles/ten-things-they-didnt-tell-you-at-freshman-orientation-1536010557 Learn how to be a good American, challenge your teachers, study a language, and tackle hard subjects. By David Gelernter Sept. 3, 2018 5:35 p.m. ET Welcome to Yale. Please disregard what you’ve been told so far, and follow these instructions. 1. Understand that you’re here to learn how to be good citizens of the…

  • Sheldon Y. Carnes, March 26, 2018

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    From the Albany Times Union, March 31, 2018: Carnes, Sheldon (Troy, NY). After a joyful celebration of his life with family and friends, Sheldon “Rusty” Carnes paddled peacefully to the Pearly Gates around 3:30 a.m. on March 26, 2018. He left behind his sisters, Katy, Roxy, and Sandy; brother Terry; multiple masks, puppets and flutes; and a wide diversified circle of loving friends. In 2012, AlbanyPoets.com reports that Sheldon Carnes made a rare appearance (with…

  • Philip Kuekes, November 29, 2010

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    (Philip Kuekes died on November 29, 2010. This memorial appeared in the November, 2018 Class Notes.) “Your scribe has just learned of the death of Philip Kuekes, from glioblastoma, on November 29, 2010. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Fairfield, Conn.  He was a physics major at Yale. He moved to the Bay Area in 1969, owned his own computer consulting business and worked for TRW in Mountain View. He later worked…

  • Michael Emery Smith, April 23, 2018

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    (from https://www.mdislander.com/obituary/michael-emery-smith) Michael Emery Smith, 71, died April 23, 2018, at home with his family by his side after a short, but hard fought battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born Nov. 8, 1946, in Bar Harbor, the son of Emery W. and Elaine (Rumill) Smith. Michael graduated from Pemetic High School (SWH), Class of 1965 and Yale University, Class of 1969. Michael’s career was mostly in commercial banking. Michael was an involved member of…

  • Edmund Lee Wadhams, March 21, 2018

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    From the Chestnut Hill Local: Edmund Lee Wadhams, 70, of Onancock VA, died on March 21 of natural causes. He was born in Philadelphia, July 6, 1947, to the late Genevieve Newbold Lee and the late Albion James Wadhams, Jr. He was the grandson of Ellen Newbold and Charles Smith Lee, Marcia Elizabeth Hand and Albion James Wadhams. He is survived by his half-sister Katherine W. Cox, (Charles), of Haverford PA, and her mother, step…

  • Stanisich Exhibit in Bay Area Gallery March 31 – May 12

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    Paintings and watercolors created by Ezra Stiles own Bill Stanisich will be featured at the prestigious Andra Norris Gallery in Burlingame, CA from March 21 thru May 12, 2018.  There will be an opening reception on Saturday, April 7th from 6-8PM, and all Bay Area Yalies are welcome to attend.  Admission is free. The exhibit will feature works from his latest collection of paintings and watercolors of Land’s End, a wild cliff just west of the Golden Gate…

  • Calling All Packrats

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    We are looking for pictures (especially!), document, flyers, audio tapes, posters, publications, etc., etc.– memorabilia, generally. We want to digitize them and use them in the ClassBook and on the website. So NOW is the time to dig out old scrapbooks, shoeboxes or other stored materials from Back In The Day … and get it to us for preservation, use and return to you (if you want the item/hard copy back).

  • Carmen Cozza, 1930-2018

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    An incredible legacy: the winningest coach in Ivy League history (which includes back when Yale won everything nationally); College Football Hall of Fame, 2004; 15 players (including our own Hill and Dowling) going to the NFL; 5 Rhodes scholars; only 7 of his 2000 players failed to graduate. Read Brian Dowling’s remembrance in the Comments section of this post.