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September/October 2010
Volume 74, Number 1

Credits, from top: ©Theban Desert Road Survey, ©Mark Zurolo ’01MFA, and Mark Morosse.

Feature stories:

The Velázquez in the Basement
by John Marciari ’00PhD A former Yale curator tells how it feels to discover a masterpiece.

The Lost City
by Heather Pringle
A find that could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt.

West Campus: Deal of the Century
by Mark Alden Branch ’86 When Yale got the chance to buy a billion-dollar research campus for ten cents on the dollar, they bought first and asked questions later. Now the new West Campus is starting to take shape.

West Campus: Walk on the Semi-Wild Side
by Bruce Fellman The West Campus’s wetlands prove a good spot for nature education.

West Campus: A Place for Yale’s Stuff
Scenes from the arts and natural history collections on the West Campus.

West Campus: The Pioneers
by Jenny Blair ’97, ’04MD, Tracy Hampton, and Margot Sanger-Katz ’02 Three innovative West Campus science labs.

Special online features for this issue of the magazine include:

More pictures of the desert city found by Yale Egyptologists: see “The Lost City.”

A slide show with more scenes from Yale’s West Campus: see “Deal of the Century.”

High-speed video of the courtship dive of the Anna’s hummingbird and audio recordings of the distinct beep of its tail feathers: see “Shake a Tail Feather.”

from the editor
Romance novels and Viking archaeology: only in the college seminars.

letters
A moving elegy; an impressive tackle; Yalies at Oxford.

light & verity
+ Rudy’s Bar and Grill is being displaced
+ Alumni by the Numbers
+ Mojoceratops perifania
+ Hip-hop cello star Kevin Olusola ’11
+ Yale HEALTH, the clinic formerly known as DUH
+ More staff layoffs
+ Webwatching
+ The Yale Daily News building gets an upgrade
+ Quoted: James Franco ’14PhD
+ Yale’s Global Health Leadership Institute
+ A $12 million malpractice judgment against Yale doctors
+ Campus Clips

milestones
+ $2.5 million award for probing the unknown
+ More news of Yale people

where they are now
An 82-year-old “perpetual sophomore.”

scene on campus
Sailing school.

old yale
The birth of the Glee Club.

q&a: rick levin
Yale president Rick Levin '74PhD talks about why Stanford wins so often, and other sports topics.

findings
+ A hummingbird’s noisy tail
+ Parides sesotris
+ Chimps at war
+ Electrical fields are influencing your brain
+ Noted

arts & culture
+ Object Lesson: why Pavlov signed a steak
+ You Can Quote Them: dispatches on the lunatic fringe
+ Book review: a new approach to admissions
+ Photographer Lee Friedlander
+ Books by Yale authors
+ Calendar

sporting life
+ One athlete’s summer: teaching lacrosse to Ugandan villagers.
+ Sports Shorts

news from alumni house
What you like to do for Yale?

the yale classifieds
Write a screenplay, find a producer, publish your book.

school notes
News about your Yale school.

deaths

last look
Alas, poor Yorick.

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