Yale Pushes Back Start of Spring Semester 2022
Yale University is pushing back the start of the spring 2022 semester and modifying the semester schedule due to a surge in COVID-19 cases around the world.
Yale researchers develop Lyme disease vaccine
from Martha’s Vineyard Times By Eunki Seonwoo | December 20, 2021 Clinical trials have not been done, but it does hold promise. Researchers from Yale University have developed a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine against “Borrelia burgdorferi,” commonly known as Lyme disease, according to Yale Daily News. The vaccine has been tested on guinea pigs but has not undergone clinical trials yet, so its effectiveness on humans remains uncertain. The paper was originally published in the medical…
Yale Going Remote for Final Exams, Students to Leave
from NBC Connecticut Published December 19, 2021 • Updated on December 20, 2021 at 6:56 am Yale University officials are encouraging students to leave early for the fall semester as final exams will be online amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The university said they haven’t directly experienced an increase in cases like other universities have, but they want to allow students the option to go home early. “Although the risk of transmission during in-person examinations is small, we want…
The Beatles: Get Back—an Experience or a Memory?
It’s the holidays and once again I’m arguing with classmates and friends about the latest Beatles’ release! Plus ça change. This time, it’s about Peter Jackson’s 8-hour miniseries on Disney+, studying the Fab Fours’ creation of the Let It Be album.
Back in our school days, The Beatles seemed to dominate our Decembers, beginning in freshman year when Rubber Soul could […]
A sea story, sort of, about Watergate and January 6th
This weekend I’m thinking about Watergate, the scandal that began when some operatives burgled a Democratic office and got caught. That happened in the run-up to the 1972 election, which Nixon won hugely, in June I believe. I was fishing then, off New England, chasing offshore lobster in Lydonia Canyon out on the edge of the shelf, maybe 120 miles from Nantucket. My skipper, Sten, who passed away in 2000, was an avid reader of…
Four Yalies to study in China as Schwarzman Scholars
from Yale News By Susan Gonzalez | December 10, 2021 Two Yale seniors and two alumni with an interest in fostering peaceful and prosperous relations with China are among the 151 individuals selected as 2023 Schwarzman Scholars for graduate study in China. Seniors Jasper Boers and Sharmaine Koh Mingli and alumni Liam Arnade-Colwill ’19 and William Ge ’17 were chosen from 3,000 applicants for the prestigious fellowships, which support graduate study for a master’s degree…
Patient, Heal Thyself
One Man’s Informed Attempt to
Navigate the Medical SystemEditor’s Note: Our writer classmate Jeff has worked mainly as a science/medical journalist. He’s also the son of a doctor (Yale ’44). Following a recent health scare, Jeff offers some thoughts about the costs and pitfalls of our “sickcare” system. The bottom line: Have your wits fully about you if you want to survive.
Four Yale students win Rhodes Scholarships
from Yale Daily News Four Yale seniors will cross the Atlantic next fall for graduate studies at the University of Oxford as part of the Rhodes Scholarship. JORDAN FITZGERALD NOV 28, 2021 Mary Orsak ’22 hid in the Pierson College seminar room on Nov. 20, shielding herself from the Yale-Harvard game festivities while she found out which applicants received this cycle’s prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She won. Orsak and three other Yalies — Liam Elkind…
Class Colloquium 12 – Recording, Transcript and Action
Today we hosted a Class Colloquium addressing Alzheimer’s, dementia and other degenerative diseases for the Yale Boom group (Yale Classes of 1967-73). Drs. Art Segal and Ken Davis guided the discussion led by the two experts from the staff of Mount Sinai. See the original announcement for background on the speakers and program.
Below is the video of the event, with the transcript. Several suggestions and interesting ideas are included in the Comments area below the post.
Class Notes – Nov/Dec 2021
News from Bruce Mazo, Brad Gascoigne, Felice Pace, Chris Hoffman, and Richard Seltzer and comments from your Class Scribe.
125 Years After the First College Golf Match, a Rematch
Yale and Columbia played the first intetcollegiate golf match. Recently, they had a rematch to celebrate the 125th anniversary.
A Retiring Democrat Places Blame for Paralysis in Congress
Interview in The New Yorker, by Jane Mayer (Yale ’77):
It was too early in the afternoon for Representative John Yarmuth, of Kentucky, to open the bottle of Larceny bourbon that he keeps in his Capitol Hill office, but the situation he described might drive anyone to drink. Yarmuth, who turns seventy-four next week, is one of a dozen House Democrats who have announced their intention to retire or seek other offices. The rush to the exits has triggered speculation …The Isthmus For Christmas
Editor’s Note: I’m still looking for News and other items ABOUT classmates. Given gaps, though, I’m sharing stories, poems, essays, and other works FROM you. This one’s a Christmas-time adventure story. See also Michael’s memoir about 1965, 1966, 1967.
Back in the 1950’s, when I was a skinny little kid with a preternatural love of geography, I used to spend long half-hours staring at the maps of the world and imagining myself somewhere out there. … One of my favorite romantic places to imagine myself being was on the Pan American Highway, that thin red line on […]
Class Colloquium #12: Losing my mind … and my good health
Something on the order of half of us will deal with dementia — either our own or our spouse’s. Class Secretary Dr. Art Segal and Class Council member Dr. Ken Davis have arranged for two experts to join us for a close look at the disease, what can be done to forestall or attenuate it and what else we should know. Their presentation will be followed by your questions and candid conversation.
Yale’s Grand Strategy Program Has Always Been Broken
Op-Ed in Foreign Poilicy magazine:The university set out to train the next generation of U.S. leaders—but it often failed to educate them.
Yale professor Beverly Gage has been praised widely for defending academic freedom by announcing her resignation from the directorship of Yale’s Program in Grand Strategy. But there are more politically urgent, and arguably profound, questions at issue here beyond professors’ right to design their courses free of outside interference.
Yale posts 40.2% return on endowment for 20-21 fiscal year
from Yale Daily News Yale’s endowment reaches $42.3 billion, posting highest rate of return since 2000 The endowment had a rate of return of 40.2 percent, on par with peer institutions and marking a significant increase from Yale’s endowment growth in recent years ZHEMIN SHAO 3:36 PM, OCT 14, 2021 STAFF REPORTER Courtesy of Amay Tewari The University’s endowment soared to $42.3 billion during the 2021 fiscal year, the Yale Investments Office announced Thursday…
