The Case for a Nuclear Renaissance
Retiring existing plants, especially a problem-free facility like Diablo Canyon in California, will aggravate the real problems: energy dependence and climate change.
Yale Cuts Ties With the Sacklers Over Opioid Disaster
from The Daily Beast Purdue Pharma has donated millions of dollars to Yale University including endowing two professorships and a program in the sciences. Mathew Murphy Senior News Editor Published Mar. 09, 2022 12:16PM ET Yale is severing ties with the Sackler family, the founders of pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma, which has donated millions of dollars to the university. “In 2021, the University made a decision to pursue a separation from the Sackler name and has been…
Video & Transcript for Class Colloquium 13: Depression
Here is the video of Jerry’s talk and Q&A. It was VERY well-received.
For those who just want an audio recording, it is also attached.
We’ve also included the questions posed in the chat window, as well as a transcript auto-generated by the speech-to-text software that generated closed captions for the session.
Seltzer Extends Productivity Streak: Publishes To Gether Tales
Classmate Richard Steltzer extends his string of well-received fiction with the March 4th release of To Gether Tales.. No, that’s not a typo. Read more to see the explanation for the title and the prescient reflections on/in/about the current pandemic.
Yale Prof Timothy Snyder, Yuval Harari and Anne Applebaum on Ukraine
Editor’s Note: This is a very intelligent, interesting discussion of the Ukraine situation. Personally, I’m proud that Snyder teaches at Yale.
Too much reality: Putin’s Ukraine invasion summons Europe’s dark past
Editor’s Note: This is a recent Op-Ed published by a classmate. Send in any that YOU have had published recently.
Putin must be stopped by force, and his American apologists must be thoroughly discredited, much as Hitler and Mussolini and their American apologists and collaborators were, even if doing so requires pain and sacrifice from the rest of us.
What T.S. Eliot called “very much reality” doesn’t stop there. […]Yale School of Public Health to become independent school
from Becker’s Hospital Review Cailey Gleeson (Twitter) – Friday, February 25th, 2022 The Yale School of Public Health will transition into a self-supporting, independent school, and its leaders have pledged $150 million of endowment toward the school’s teaching, research and practice, they said Feb. 24. The organizational changes were based on input from the school community through listening sessions, meetings and written correspondence over the past few months, they said. The school has operated as a department within Yale’s…
Class Notes – Mar/Apr 2022
Yale’s team fought to the end, but Harvard won. Your scribe will be in Cambridge next year, and will be happy to meet classmates there, virus willing, and the creek don’t rise.
Howard Newman directed me to this story: “George Chopivsky, a long-time Ukrainian-American business and philanthropic leader, was one of the recipients of
Leaning into Taxes!
Editor’s Note: It’s time to share our Second Acts, new commitments or zig/zags that might delight or challenge classmates. It’s a new section called “Onward,” and here’s the first one. (Send yours!)
Want an excellent mental challenge to hold off cerebral atrophy?! Here’s one you might want to consider. First, a bit […]
Chopivsky gets Distinguished Service Award from U.S-Ukraine Business Council
George Chopivsky, Washington, D.C., is the founder and President of the Ukrainian Development Company. George has been a leader in the Ukrainian-American community for many years. He has been developing business opportunities in Ukraine since independence in 1991.
Nathan Chen wins figure skating gold
from The Guardian as Nathan Chen wins figure skating gold for US and Olympic redemption Chen, 22, holds off Japanese rivals Kagiyama and Uno Puts to rest demons of catastrophic 2018 Olympic debut Bryan Armen Graham at the Capital Indoor Stadium @bryanagraham Thu 10 Feb 2022 Nathan Chen left no doubt, making good on his long-held promise to finally take hold of figure skating’s ultimate prize. The world’s most dominant skater over the past 47 months…
Class Colloquium 13: Depression, a discussion with Dr. Jerry Rosenbaum, March 9th at 1:30 pm EST
What IS “Depression” anyway? Not the economic one — the psychological one. And what is going on when Depression hits later in life, in your 70s?
Our guide will be a world-class expert, classmate Jerry Rosenbaum, MD, who served as former Chief of Psychiatry at Mass General. (See his incredible resume for more.) Jerry will share the latest understanding of clinical depression in septuagenarians and report on promising new therapeutics (including psychedelics). Register now for March 9th at 1:30 pm EST.
How I Got Into Yale?
Sorting through some memorabilia from the summer of 1957, I noticed a picture from Poly Lodge at Camp Dudley that made me smile. Then I noticed the name of the counselor pictured here, at the cabin next door. Recognize him?
A Slaughter of Wolves Like This Hasn’t Been Seen in a Century
Note: This is a guest editorial published in the New York Times. Tom McNamee, Silliman ’69, is the author of nearly a dozen books, including two about wolves in the greater Yellowstone region of the West.
Mystery Illnesses Writ Large
Editor’s Note: This is a book review in the LA Review of Books, where classmate Jeff Wheelwright reviews a book about “mystery illnesses.” Given his recent battle with his own mystery illness (see “Patient, Heal Thyself“) and his background as a medical journalist, Jeff’s review of these famous cases was especially poignant.
Class Notes – Jan/Feb 2022
Your scribe is saddened to report that Bobby Haas passed away in September. I discovered his aerial photography long after Yale; my copy of Through the Eyes of the Vikings (National Geographic, 2010) has had a prominent place in our living room for a decade. The photographs are truly stunning. (National Geo reminds readers that “All of the royalties from his photographic work go to nonprofit foundations and wildlife conservation organizations throughout the world.”) Classmates…
