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Issue Archives: 2015

March/April

Vol LXXVIII, No 4

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FEATURES

How science came to Yale

Benjamin Silliman, a young lawyer, traveled to Philadelphia in 1802 with a few mineral specimens in a candle box. It was Yale’s first step on the path to becoming a university. By Richard Conniff

FEATURES

Going around in circles

Volvelles are those little paper wheels that help organize information. Yale has hundreds of them. By Peggy Kalb

FEATURES

Déjà vu

Yale’s newest residential colleges will be modeled on their forebears. By Mark Alden Branch

FROM THE EDITOR

Cellos and jokes

At 93, Aldo Parisot is Yale’s longest-serving—and perhaps most entertaining—faculty member. By Kathrin Lassila

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Meeting the neighbors

Readers talk back about Chinese grandparents, climate change, and more.

WHERE THEY ARE NOW

History for everyone

Making history popular, on campus and on the radio By Mark Alden Branch

SCENE ON CAMPUS

Bookies

Binding books from scratch in the Silliman basement.  1 comment

NEW HAVEN

Stitching a downtown back together

The site of the late Coliseum will soon look very different. By John Dillon

OLD YALE

The invention of the Alumni Fund

The oldest annual giving program in America was launched in 1890. By Judith Schiff

SPORTING LIFE

A night in the limelight

Yale wins the second Rivalry on Ice at Madison Square Garden. By Evan Frondorf

LAST LOOK

Celebrity harpsichord?

A valuable instrument, altered to hint at a connection to Voltaire.

Q&A: PETER SALOVEY

Reducing debt (for students)

Explaining a $200 million fund-raising drive for financial aid. By Kathrin Lassila previous issuenext issue

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LIGHT & VERITY

Alumni association to be overseen by fund-raising VP Officers’ responsibilities are rearranged. Quoted: cups kyped Fame catches up with Dick Jauron A star running back from the ’70s makes the Hall of Fame. Campus clips Police criticized over treatment of black student A New York Times columnist’s son is held at gunpoint. Adieu to the Anchor A landmark New Haven bar closes abruptly. Sharp operator An undergrad sharpens knives to earn his spending money. An overhaul for the Hall of Graduate Studies A parking lot will become student housing, and HGS will be reimagined Donkeys, elephants, and bulldogs Our reader survey shows Yale alumni lean Democratic more than they did eight years ago.

MILESTONES

Obama’s poet, and Yale’s poet-professor Elizabeth Alexander ’84 takes Yale’s first endowed poetry chair More news about Yale people

FINDINGS

Nature, nurture, and nativity How your genes behave may depend on your birth year. Noted Are those five stars real? Some hotels are more likely to collect fake reviews. Dodging the data The car brand most likely to kill occupants of other cars in an accident. Piggybacking on Lyme disease Another reason to worry about deer ticks.

ARTS & CULTURE

Calendar The birth of the hacker You can quote them: did “hacker” start out as a good thing or a bad thing? Deathbed testament Object lesson: an eighteenth-century Native American manuscript uncovered. Garry Wills vs. the Catholic church A towering public intellectual takes on the hierarchy. Output Works received New books, music, films, or other works by Yale faculty, staff, and alumni.

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