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Profiles Archive
Edge of Greatness
by Carlo Rotella '94PhD
July/August 2004
For a year and a half, Yale fencer Sada Jacobson focused every moment of her life on a single, consuming goal. At the summer Olympics in Athens, it would all come down to a few furious minutes.
Missed Opportunities
by Jacob Weisberg '86
May/June 2004
Yale may have made George W. Bush '68 and John Kerry '66 . But neither of them made enough of Yale.
Flipping It
by Richard Conniff '73
May/June 2004
How lawyer Ian Ayres '81, '86JD, and economist/SOM professor Barry Nalefuff set out to change the world by looking at life upside down and sideways.
Crisis of Conscience
by Warren Goldstein '73, '83PhD
March/April 2004
William Sloane Coffin Jr. turned Yale into a center of Vietnam draft resistance. Most remarkable was that the university let him do it.
An Engineer for the Avant-Garde
by David Case
March/April 2004
Natalie Jeremijenko makes robotic dogs, remote-controlled geese, genetically identical trees -- and social commentary. It's art, all right. But is it engineering?
Cuban Dream State
by Cathy Shufro
January/February 2004
When Carlos Eire was an 11-year-old in Havana, he shouted obscenities at pro-Castro marchers. Now a religious studies professor at Yale, he has won the National Book Award with a hallucinatory memoir of faith and revolution.
David vs. Goliath
by David Pogue '85
November/December 2003
David Gelernter is a computer scientist who doesn't like computers. So he's launched a quest to rebuild everybody's desktop.
Red Sox and a Blue Leader
by George Sullivan
May 2003
Theo Epstein '95, the new general manager of the Boston baseball team, is
the latest Yale man to run the Red Sox.
Senior Society
by Jennifer Kaylin
May 2003
What becomes of a professor once the word "emeritus" is pinned
to the title? A continued and vital academic life for emeriti is the goal
ofthe Henry Koerner Center. And as four profiles show, Koerner fellows are
not exactly retiring types.
Back in the Fold
by Mark Alden Branch
April 2003
Six years ago, Yale declined a gift for gay and lesbian studies from firebrand
author-activist Larry Kramer '57, and it seemed unlikely that he would ever
have anything good to say about his alma mater. But time -- and a gift from
Kramer's brother -- has healed a number of wounds.
Back to the BAC
by Jennifer Kaylin
February 2003
When Amy Meyers came to Yale as a graduate student in 1978, she was captivated
by the newly opened Center for British Art. On the BAC's 25th anniversary,
Meyers returns as director.
The Ten Greatest Yalies
Who Never Were
by Mark Alden Branch
February 2003
Frank Merriwell, Andrea Zuckerman, Mr. Burns: Just because they're
fictional doesn't mean we love them -- or loathe them -- any less
than our real alumni.
Finding Franklin
by James McElroy
November 2002
Using the voluminous Papers of Benjamin Franklin at Yale, Sterling
Professor Emeritus Edmund Morgan fleshes out our most intriguing
founding father.
Lindbergh Lands in New Haven
by Jennifer Kaylin
May 2002
Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic -- and into history -- in
1927. The "Lone Eagle" eventually gave his papers to the Manuscripts
and Archives section of the Sterling Memorial Lebrary, and from this resource,
chief archivist and Lindbergh expert Judith Schiff and others have assembled
quite a story.
Lion in Winter
by Bruce Fellman
April 2002
Donald Kagan, the Hillhouse Professor of Classics and History, is a member
of an endangered species at Yale: the campus conservative. This outspoken
defender of studying Western civilization and maintaining a strong U.S. military
continues to play the roles of acclaimed teacher and persistent provocateur.
A New Dean Takes the Stage
by Peter Hawes
March 2002
The School of Drama and its Repertory Theatre have been the training ground
for some of the nation's premier practitioners of the dramatic arts. Its
newest leader is James Bundy, a 1993 Drama School graduate with lengthy family
ties to Yale, a long artistic career, and a vision for keeping theater at
center stage.
Leading the Libraries
by Bruce Fellman
February 2002
Last summer saw a changing of the guard at the libraries. Alice Prochaska,
the new Univeristy Librarian, and Barbara Shailor, director of the Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, are overseeing a revolution in the way
information is collected and dispensed. But don't count out the book just
yet.
Eli's Stanford Man
by Bruce Fellman
Summer 2001
In making Gerhard Casper, the former president of Stanford, a member of the
Yale Corporation, the university tapped a seasoned educator who has dealt
with issues ranging from scandals to earthquakes.
A Man with Plans
by Mark Alden Branch
May 2001
For 34 years, Alexander Garvin has been showing students how planning can
change American cities. Now he's at work on an audacious project to bring
the Olympics to New York City.
Powerful Persuader
by Bruce Fellman
November 2000
Tear gas and violence were in the New Haven air in the spring of 1970 when
Kurt Schmoke '71 helped lead the campus through tumultuous times. Thirty
years later, Schmoke remains a leader -- the first black man to serve as
mayor of Baltimore, and the first black Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
A Matter of Life & Death
by Bruce Fellman
October 2000
The award-winning writing of retired surgeon Sherwin Nuland mixes
history, physiology, and mystery into explorations of how we live
and die. In addition to accounts of house calls, close calls, and
systems failures, Dr. Nuland offers something else: a prescription
for healing the medical profession.
A Life in History
by Howard Lamar
April 2000
History professor C. Vann Woodward, who died in December, helped reshape
the way Americans look at the South. A colleague and former president of
the university remembers Woodward's contributions to Yale and the nation.
The Forest and the
Trees
by Bruce Fellman
October 2000
When the forestry school went looking for a new dean last year, the hope
was to find someone with international experience. U.N. administrator and
environmentalist James Gustave Speth '64, '69LLB has truly global reach.
Exit an Icon
Summer 1999
When Paul Mellon '29 died last winter, he left a legacy to Yale like no other.
His final gift -- $90 million and more than 130 works of art -- is the largest
in the university's history. But his generosity had already permeated virtually
every area of the institution. In tribute, four people who knew Paul Mellon
in different roles offer their recollections.
An Artist Guarding the
Art
by Mark Alden Branch
May 1999
As the new director of the Yale University Art Gallery, artist Jock Reynolds
wants to narrow the gap between people who make art and people who present
it. Can he make the museum both more inviting to visitors and more hospitable
to contemporary art?
Blast from the Past
by Mark Alden Branch
March 1999
As a designer, Robert A.M. Stern '65MArch cultivates an air of bygone gentility
in his vacation houses. But as the new Dean of the School of Architecture,
he's aiming for anything but calm.
The Spock Legacy
Summer 1998
Benjamin Spock '25 -- preeminent pediatrician and protester -- changed the
practices of parenthood. The author of Baby and Child Care is remembered
by those he influenced.
A New Dean for the Graduate
School
by Bruce Fellman
Summer 1998
As the Graduate School's 17th dean, neurobiologist Susan Hockfield brings
a "passion for research and teaching" to the post.
Tough Love on Campus
by Mark Alden Branch
November 1997
Betty Trachtenberg and her brigade of deans and counselors provide the parentis in
the loco.
Can Jack Siedlecki "Get
It Done"?
by Randall Beach
October 1997
After 32 years under the guidance of Carm Cozza, the Yale football team has
a new leader. His specialty is turning losers into winners.
Carm's Last Call
by Randall Beach
November 1996
When he retires as Yale's head football coach at the end of this season,
Carmen Cozza will leave behind a record distinguished as much by personal
mentorship as by gridiron victories.
The New A.D.
by Tom Verde
November 1994
Tom Beckett is a former varsity athlete who played professional baseball
before helping Stanford rekindle its athletic flame. Can he do the same for
Yale?
Of Lemurs and the Bottom
Line
by Bruce Fellman
Summer 1994
In becoming Yale's educational and budget czar, anthropologist Alison Richard
is moving from the calm of the laboratory to the turmoil of an office where
almost all of the bucks eventually stop.
Steady as He Goes
by Bruce Fellman
March 1994
The appointment of a physicist as dean of the Graduate School signals a new
dedication to the "hard" sciences at Yale.
An Officer for All Seasons
by Marc Wortman
February 1994
A rising star at Yale seven years ago, Linda Koch Lorimer left to run another
school. Now she is back as University Secretary.
A Life in Writing: John
Hersey, 1914-1993
October 1993
When John Hersey, '36, died, on March 24, the nation lost one of its most
admired writers. The author of 25 books, including A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima,
and The Wall, and numerous articles for the New Yorker and
other magazines, Hersey won the Pulitzer Prize and set a daunting standard
for moral concern delivered with high literary grace.
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