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Top dogs
Who knew the 2012–13 team could bring Yale its first national championship in ice hockey? They did.
By
Alex Goldberger
features
Inventions that will help save the world (if we let them)
It doesn’t matter how useful it is, or how important. Sometimes, a great new technology doesn’t make it into the market or your life.
By
Caitlin Kelly
features
The
unexpected
art
Woodworking used to mean carpentry, or a weekend hobby. Now there’s a new dimension.
By
Meredith Mendelsohn
features
Faith, in poetry
Christian Wiman lost his faith in God, fell in love with poetry, edited a prestigious magazine, got married, got sick, and found God again. Now he’s teaching at Yale.
By
Mark Oppenheimer
Where They Are Now
A CEO goes back to school
Michael Jacobs works on his Yale BA—when he's not busy running a publishing company.
Showrunner
City life
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Sporting Life
Russian holiday
Some Yale coaching helps the USA win a World Junior Championship.
Fall sports highlights
A goalie’s defense against muscular dystrophy
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Scene on Campus
Loom room
A place for students to de-stress and get crafty.
Dawn patrol
Island getaway
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Milestones
A former dean, but never a former nurse
Donna Diers remembered.
A departure… and a deanship
The center of conversation
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Arts & Culture
Pot odyssey
An author looks at marijuana from all the angles.
An enslaved poet on slavery
You can quote them: Elementary, my dear reader
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Findings
Babies with prejudice?
Schadenfreude starts early.
Born-again brains
Stress can help you
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New Haven
Only connect
The city looks to undo a postwar planning mistake.
Many happy returns
When is a boathouse not just a boathouse?
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Light & Verity
A $30 million overhaul for accuracy’s sake
The Peabody's dinosaurs are getting a tail-raising.
Can genes be intellectual property?
Yale’s top feeder schools, then and now
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Last Look
Diamonds of a duchess
Downton Abbey–era opulence at the Center for British Art.
Skoal
Body consciousness
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Q&A: Rick Levin
Exit interview
Levin on Yale-NUS, and last words to the alumni.
Personnel
Crisis management
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From the Editor
Boldface names
Served fresh daily
What happens when you do the math
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Old Yale
The Lincoln Tree and the bones
A tree, a storm, and New Haven’s original cemetery.
The man who shrank the world
The art of compromise
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Findings
Ah yes, I remember it well
Memories—even those of recent traumas—are malleable.
Undue influence
Ah yes, I remember it well
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Where They Are Now
Drawn from life
An alumna finds a novel in her struggle with bipolar disorder.
The game maker
Bestselling author (and former Fonz)
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Last Look
Priceless relic? Or tourist trinket?
A Shakespearean snuffbox.
Staying dry in the Arctic
Frame of reference
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Science & Health
The most hated climate scientist in the US fights back
Balancing Act
The heart of the matter
Alumni
A rebel comes home
Rap. Unwrapped.
Funny business
Yale History
Big man on campus
"The mingled dust of both armies"
God and white men at Yale
People & Profiles
The patriarch
The bird-filled world of Richard Prum
Next up
Sports
The long road back
The story of "Green Fields of the Mind"
Top Yale Olympians
Arts & Culture
Spymasters
The highly unlikely opera company
More is more
New Haven
Yale to fund college tuition for New Haven students
Happy Birthday, Elm City
Then . . . and now
Student Life
A guide to student style
Tailgating
Enter Cupid. Maybe.
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May/Jun 2013
Vol LXXVI, No 5
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