Ted Van Dyke remembers John Nelson: John Eric Nelson died of colorectal cancer on February 5, 2020. He fought it bravely, tenaciously and optimistically. When I last saw him on January 24, we parted with a long-held fist bump and his saying, “It’s not looking good, but I’m not giving up.” John was an excellent athlete, winning the class of 1969 intramural athlete of the year award and leading the JE Spiders football teams to…
from fastcompany.com Yale study: Selfish people misremember their own past selfishness, thus like selves By Arianne Cohe Selfish assholes do not remember their own selfish behavior, according to a new study out of Yale University that helpfully answers your pivotal question: How can he live with himself? He can quite easily, due to a self-protective trick of memory: Selfish people recall themselves behaving more generously than they actually did. “When people behave in ways that fall short of their…
Editor’s Note: This report describes a podcast series created by a classmate.
I’ve been listening to this podcast for a few months now. I’ll do a full review next month, but I can tell you already that it is very rich, deeply researched and seriously worth your time, especially if you enjoy new integrations of history and science toward a theory that explains both the current dysfunctions and a promising path ahead. Click through to read a more complete description.
As testing for the novel coronavirus continues to scale up, a new study finds that saliva samples are a “preferable” indicator for infection than the deep nasal swabs now widely used.
The study led by the Yale School of Public Health — and conducted at Yale New Haven Hospital with 44 inpatients and 98 health care workers — found that saliva samples taken from just inside the mouth provided greater detection sensitivity and consistency throughout the course of an infection than the broadly recommended nasopharyngeal (NP) approach. The study also concluded that there was less variability in results with the self-sample collection of saliva.
I love podcasts. I listen to them when walking. I listened to them when driving, before being grounded by stay-at-home orders, that is.
I’m curious, though: What’s YOUR experience with podcasts? Are you a frequent listener? A podcaster?
Are podcasts moving into the mainstream far enough to reach educated Boomers like us?
To that end, please answer the following 2-minute survey. I’ll “close” the survey and […]
Editor’s Note: Doug shot many pictures and was kind enough to select (and crop!) the headshots and other shots he thought would be of interest.
Why is it that the four years from our arrival at Yale early in September 1965, to our graduation on June 9, 1969, have proven so important to so many of us? Most of us will be seventy-two years old in 2019, the year of our fiftieth reunion. Those four years we spent in college constitute a mere one-eighteenth of our lives. Why so important? Why is it that today you can initiate a conversation with a classmate with whom you may not have spoken in a half-century, and it will be as easy to talk to him as it was when we were undergraduates together?
… In the first ten years of his career, he worked with the National Indian Health Service treating hantavirus on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico and measles outbreaks in remote tribal areas near the Arctic Circle. He then transferred to the Peace Corps and served for ten years as a Chief Medical Officer in a number of countries in Africa. He was the first medical person to reach the US Embassy in Kenya after […]
from news.yale.edu Yale launches clinical trial for drug to treat severe COVID-19 patients By Brita Belli | Apr. 23rd, 2020 Yale researchers will begin a clinical trial at Yale New Haven Hospital to test the effectiveness of a drug called ibudilast (MN-166) for treating acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a life-threatening lung condition developed by some of the most seriously ill COVID-19 patients. The researchers are part of Yale’s Advanced Therapies Group, which was formed…
Over 120 classmates signed up to hear our classmate Ken Davis, CEO of Mt. Sinai Health System, give a short report from the front lines of COVID-19, followed by some Q&As. It was our first classwide Zoom meeting, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Here is a recording of that session and some feedback from classmates who attended.
Editor’s Note: This is an Op-Ed published on April 19th in the Washington Post.
As the covid-19 pandemic tears through the country, weaknesses in our communications and health-care systems have been laid bare. Approximately 25 percent of Americans do not have a primary care doctor, in many cases because of geographic, financial, …
The Yale Archives just added this short film about the fabrication and installation of the Claus Oldenburg (Yale ’50) artwork that appeared in front of Commons in May of our Senior Year. As you watch this 15-minute film, you’ll recognize a number of faces — Coffin, Scully, Brewster, and some patrician representing the Yale Corporation – Sam Chauncey? There are many student faces in the crowd, too — perhaps yours?
On Wednesday, March 18, I was scheduled for a regular follow up appointment with my Primary Care Provider. On the Monday or Tuesday prior to my appointment, her office called and asked how I was feeling. “Fine,” I said, “a mild sore throat, a little throat congestion, but I feel fine.” When I went to the appointment, initially I saw a nurse instead of my doctor. She took my vitals (temp 97.6F), and did a…
from Legacy.com
James Alan (sic) Steffenburg of New Haven died peacefully on the morning of February 27, 2020 at Yale-New Haven Hospital, after an extensive hospitalization. He was 72 years old.
Jim was born on December 17, 1947 in Libertyville, Illinois, to Lars Steffenburg and Virginia Tidmarsh Steffenburg. He grew up in […]
“A Home in Hendrie Hall,” is an 18-minute film by Miriam Lewin ’80. It chronicles the transformation of both the Glee Club and the University over the past 50 years — in celebration of the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College. It spends a lot of time on the classes of 1969, 70 and 71, as women arrived. And it features more than a few recognizable faces of ’69ers.
