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August 13 2013

From WH Taft to WF Buckley:new home for Yale conservatives

It's not quite The House That Bill Built, but it will do. Yale's William F. Buckley Jr. Program—founded by students in 2011 to "promote...

September 4 2013

The girl who left Yale for Salinger

Every time J. D. Salinger's name comes up in the news, I think of Joyce Maynard ’75. I'm not so sure this would please her. Maynard is an...

September 17 2013

A lone wolf rides Rep's Streetcar

In the town where Marlon Brando first strode the boards as Stanley Kowalski, and where the Van Gogh painting that inspired the famous "STELLLLA"...

October 21 2013

Ed tech entrepreneurs land $4M in Zuckerbucks

Like Mark Zuckerberg, Yalies Aaron Feuer, Alexander "Xan" Tanner, and David Carel launched a tech startup while they were still undergraduates....

December 13 2013

Student voices: undergrad hedge funds, a visit to Whitlock's, and more

“Most college start-ups do not post eight percent returns within their first nine months of existence. But Refraction Capital is no ordinary...

February 7 2014

Robert Dahl ’40PhD, renowned political scientist, dies at 98

Robert Dahl ’40PhD, one of America's greatest political scientists and a major contributor to Yale's renown in the field, died Thursday at a...

March 19 2014

What's in a name? Looking for answers at Calhoun College

Among the wonders of Yale that greeted Chris Rabb: a stained-glass portrait of John C. Calhoun, class of 1804, "and a black man in shackles, in...

April 9 2014

A new Fab Four for the music school

When the Tokyo String Quartet retired from performance—and from its residency at the Yale School of Music—last year, the school didn't...

April 29 2014

Who wrote the Serenity Prayer? Looks like Niebuhr after all

“John Maynard Keynes is said to have made a wonderful comment when he was accused of inconsistency of opinions over time,” Fred Shapiro...

May 23 2014

Meet Sgt. Stubby, the war dog who trained at Camp Yale

“While training for combat on the fields of Yale University in 1917, Private J. Robert Conroy found a brindle puppy with a short tail. He...

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