. news.yale.edu The Love Proof: A story set at Yale By Susan Gonzalez|Feb. 18th, 2021 Madeleine Henry ’14 wrote two novels while she was an undergraduate at Yale, neither of which were ever published. But her persistence in bringing her narrative voice to the world eventually paid off. The Yale alumna has since published two books: “Breathe…
Stoll Berne attorney Rob Shlachter as well as his wife Mara Shlachter will be honored with Classroom Law Project’s 2021 Legal Citizen of the Year Award. The event will be held virtually on April 15, 2021 in Portland, OR.
Classroom Law Project is the premier Oregon non-profit focused on educating students about the law and legal systems. Among other things, […]
from CNBC . Facebook will debunk myths about climate change, stepping further into ‘arbiter of truth’ role By Salvador Rodriguez|Feb. 18th, 2021 Send to Kindle A polar bear in Repulse Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada. Facebook announced Thursday it will now debunk common myths about climate change, further leaning into the “arbiter of truth” role that the company…
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On December 21, 2020, Ed Mitchell, who began his Yale career with our class, passed away at his home in San Francisco, after a long battle with liver cancer. He died peacefully in his bed, set up with a view out his bay window to a distant Golden Gate Bridge, as his longtime partner, Alan…
from fox61.com Yale and New Haven mourn as police investigate shooting death of graduate student NEW HAVEN, Conn. — New Haven Police are investigating a deadly shooting in the area of Nash Street and Lawrence Street that left a Yale University student dead. The shooting happened in the Elm City’s East Rock neighborhood. Just after…
The Class Notes published prior to 1995 were never digitized by YAM. We wanted them available to you, so I drove down to the Reference Library at Sterling with my scanner and physically scanned back issues of YAM, from 1969 to 1995.
I then ran those scans through an optical character recognition (OCR) program to convert the images to searchable text. And then I converted all those pages to one, very large PDF file, available below!
Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” — based on the 1970 book by George McNamee — received five nominations, including nods for best film, drama; best director; best screenplay; best supporting actor; and best song. See Yale1969.org’s original story on the re-release of the book and the movie.
The Justice Dept. drops a lawsuit accusing Yale of discriminating against Asian-American and white applicants. Yale University’s campus in New Haven, Conn.Credit…Sasha Rudensky for The New York Times The Justice Department on Wednesday withdrew a lawsuit against Yale that charged the university with discriminating against Asian-American and white applicants for admission, another reversal by the…
“In sports, it’s all about how you get up when you get knocked down,” said Brian in our original planning call. “Dealing with adversity is the coin of the realm.”
Well, after getting knocked down by technical issues in December, the dynamic duo will reconvene and try again on February 23rd at 3:00 PM EST. Register now!
Classmates Ken Davis and Ira Berkower got the Zoom equivalent of a standing ovation after an hour+ deep dive into Covid: improving treatments, hospital administration (and fiscal disasters), vaccines, variants, long-haulers, antibodies … the works.
Video and slides from the event available.
from: https://news.yale.edu/spellman Yale’s Daniel Spielman wins Held Prize for solving decades-old problem By Jim Shelton January 21, 2021 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has presented the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize to Daniel Spielman, Sterling Professor of Computer Science and professor of statistics and data science, for helping to solve a theoretical…
Ned died recently in his beloved Sao Tome y Principe, a small island nation off the coast of Africa. Here is my remembrance of him, along with several tributes from those who knew him well.
Editor’ Note: This is another in a series of Alumni events available to all of us.
Our prolific classmate, Richard Seltzer, has yet another novel published this year: Nevermind.
The lives of Ruth and Mark are transformed by Nevermind magic that Ruth learned from her mother—magic that can undo what has been done and alter the shape of reality. Ruth learned from her mother—magic that can undo what has been done and alter the shape of reality. They fall in love and […]
From Tulsa World: “Gene Carson Buzzard passed away on July 21, 2020 from complications related to brain cancer. He will be remembered by his family and many friends for his intellect, humor, curiosity, generosity, loyalty, general gusto, and for living his life with joy. He loved sailing, baseball, fly fishing, the American West, photography, birding,…
Classmate Ken Davis, MD, CEO of Mt. Sinai Health System in New York, presented the very first Class Colloquium in April when COVID was crushing New York. With the “second wave” of the pandemic raging and vaccines arriving, it’s time for an update from the frontlines. Ken will be joined by classmate Ira Berkower, MD/PhD, Principal Investigator in the FDA’s Immunoregulation Lab, and an expert on vaccines.
The next and 8th Class Colloquium is set for 2 pm EST on Wednesday, January 27th, for Class of ’69 only. Register now to attend!
