May/June 2005
GESO Stages a Kinder, Gentler Strike As undergraduates attended their last week of spring classes -- and as more than a thousand admitted students visited the campus for the Bulldog Days recruiting event -- the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) staged a five-day teaching assistants' strike.
Nobelist Loses to Yale in Lawsuit In the 1980s, Yale chemical engineering professor John Fenn '40PhD developed a new technique for analyzing large, complex biological molecules. But that breakthrough also led to a dispute that may cost him a million dollars, now that a judge has ruled that Fenn defrauded Yale of its share in the patent.
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Sumo Cum Laude Kena Heffernan '96 of Hawaii is quickly becoming the face of sumo in America. |
U.S. Intelligence and Weapons of Mass Destruction Yale Alumni Magazine editor Kathrin Day Lassila '81 talks to Yale president Richard Levin '74PhD about his role on the federal commission investigating U.S. intelligence on weapons of mass destruction.
Two-million-dollar Baby Dan Brown's thriller The Da Vinci Code, which mixes history and legend, has now sold 25 million copies. Publishers saw that same potent combination in The Historian, a first novel by Elizabeth Kostova '88, which follows a young woman's discovery that she may be descended from the real-life Dracula.
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