YAM  
  1891  
spacer spacer spacer
    spacer
rule
home   about   address   advertise   submit   subscribe   write
rule
spacer
toc

TOC

toc

 
 

advertiseview classifieds
demographics
rates & deadlines
request a media kit
place a classified ad

 
 

external links

Yale University
Admissions
Association of Yale Alumni
Athletics
Yale Daily News
Office of Development
Institute of Sacred Music
Office of Public Affairs
School of Architecture
School of Art
Yale College
Divinity School
School of Drama
School of Engineering & Applied Science
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Law School
School of Management
School of Medicine
School of Music
School of Nursing
School of Public Health

   
   

The Yale Alumni Magazine is owned and operated by Yale Alumni Publications, Inc., a nonprofit corporation independent of Yale University. The content of the magazine and its website is the responsibility of the editors and does not necessarily reflect the views of Yale or its officers.

 
   
 
 

November/December 2008
Volume lxxi, Number 2

Feature stories:

A hard building to love  
Can it be a masterpiece if it's impossible to live with? The Chicago Tribune's architecture critic revisits the building he despised as a student, and has a revelation.

 

Press run  
The long and varied career of Yale University Press, from Dylan and de Kooning to a history of the hamburger.

 

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29  
The most heartbreaking football game in Yale history lives again, in an indie film.

 

First days at Yale

The Freshman Address  
Although the economy looks bad, Yale's president told the Class of 2012, Yale presents "a time of opportunity" for entering freshmen.

How hard is it to get into Yale?
Stats on acceptance and matriculation for 2008's first-year students.

Now arriving
First-years talk about their past and future.

 
     
  spacer

from the editor
Economist Robert J. Shiller, the Cassandra of capitalism.

letters
Answers to the Mory's question; Muslims, Christians, and Jews; amoral education.

light & verity
+ New provost and new Yale College dean.
+ A surprise at SOM.
+ Webwatching
+ Quoted
+ A traditionalist architect for new colleges.
+ Updates
+ Campus clips
+ Doodle fans disappointed.
+ Do-it-yourself crosswalks.

milestones
+ Yale's sustainable-food guy moves on.
+ More news of Yale people.

where they are now
The music school's anonymous $100 million donors come clean.

scene on campus
An old-fashioned Ivy League barn raising.

old yale
The man who invented radio.

q&a: rick levin
Fifteen years and counting.

findings
+ Bisphenol A and your brain.
+ How we multitask.
+ New questions about cesareans.
+ Noted
+ Sequencing the placazoan genome.

Thanks to our donors.

arts & culture
+ Walker Evans pulls a fast one.
+ Fred Shapiro on words coined by Yalies.
+ I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass '78.
+ What's going on here?
+ Books by Yale authors
+ Calendar

news from alumni house
Alumni ambassadors Down Under.

school notes
News about your Yale school.

alumni notes
News of Yale College classmates.

deaths

last look
The birth of Black Boy.

  spacer
 
rule
 

Copyright 2009, Yale Alumni Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.
Send comments or suggestions to Web editor.

Yale Alumni Magazine, P.O. Box 1905, New Haven, CT 06509-1905, USA.
yam@yale.edu

 
spacer