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Back Issues 1992–2010
Nov/Dec 2010 Vol. 74, No. 2	Singapore Spinoff Mory’s, reincarnated Highs and lows in 200 years of medical education Quotations from fictional Yalies (part 1) Freshman Address Meet the Class of 2014

Sept/Oct 2010 Vol. 74, No. 1	The Velázquez in the basement Egyptologists find a lost city in the desert West Campus, Yale’s deal of the century Why Pavlov signed a steak

July/Aug 2010 Vol. 73, No. 6	Your summer reading assigment from the Yale faculty Master T, professor of mambo Yale’s original blue Andrew Solomon on the suicide of a friend Commencement

May/June 2010 Vol. 73, No. 5	Politician Tom Perriello ’96, ’01JD Mutant medical mice—now, by mail order “Prose whisperer” Anne Fadiman Men’s hockey at the NCAA Senior suites go coed

March/April 2010 Vol. 73, No. 4	The “artificial pancreas” Return my book … or else! A soon-to-be-famous playwright Book review: should single women settle?

Jan/Feb 2010 Vol. 73, No. 3	The passions and privations of the start-up entrepreneur Michael Cunningham on Walt Whitman’s glasses Anne Applebaum on Thucydides The mystery of the missing Tiffany window The Game

Nov/Dec 2009 Vol. 73, No. 2	Life at Yale during the Great Depression A murder on campus Yale prof wins Nobel The cartoons that shook Yale The Freshman Address

Sept/Oct 2009 Vol. 73, No. 1	They called him “Mr. Bubble” When the college went coed Who really wrote “Boola Boola”? The environment school’s new building How kids can ace reading tests

July/Aug 2009 Vol. 72, No. 6	Why they call Yale the “Gay Ivy” The Newberry Memorial Organ Commencement “America’s worst mom” Our summer reading list

May/June 2009 Vol. 72, No. 5	Not the New Haven you remember No strike! Yale and unions make a deal Geronimo’s descendants sue Obama, Skull & Bones, and Yale On the right number of auto companies (and a new plan for the banks)

March/April 2009 Vol. 72, No. 4	Financial wisdom from David Swensen The author of On Writing Well, William Zinsser This is your brain on estrogen The economy hits Yale Mory’s closes, for now

Jan/Feb 2009 Vol. 72, No. 3	God & Tony Blair What Obama should do for the economy Endowment loses $5.9 billion Bin Laden’s “library” comes to Yale Yale Rep properties master Hunter Spence

Nov/Dec 2008 Vol. 72, No. 2	The A&A Building The Yale University Press The infamous Yale-Harvard game of ’68 The Freshman Address

Sept/Oct 2008 Vol. 72, No. 1	Will Mory’s survive? The missionary & the gorilla Love thy neighbor GoCrossCampus

July/Aug 2008 Vol. 71, No. 6	Who wrote the Serenity Prayer? Where mortarboards come from Brek-ek-ek-ex! A grand—but silly—Yale tradition returns What they do on their summer vacations

May/June 2008 Vol. 71, No. 5	William F. Buckley Jr. and Yale: three views Extreme makeover: the Peabody’s Age of Reptiles mural How Prozac became prosaic “Heck of a job, Brownie” is set to music

March/April 2008 Vol. 71, No. 4	The patriarch: Vincent Scully at 87 Lux et privacy: Yale’s campus police force Invitation to all alumni: design the new colleges The Doodle dies … or does it? Yale drops its prices

Jan/Feb 2008 Vol. 71, No. 3	Sociologist Elijah Anderson The Bass Library (R.I.P., CCL) A Brief History of Groupthink The Game (aka The Disaster)

Nov/Dec 2007 Vol. 71, No. 2	Yale’s Big Green Experiment The Freshman Address The real writers of “nattering nabobs” and “axis of evil” Why Rick Levin drives a Prius

Sept/Oct 2007 Vol. 71, No. 1	Yale on Stamps The Children of el Mercado Oriental It’s 2007. Do You Know Where Your Social Security Number Is? Indiana Jones and the Tower of Ivory Political Correctness: A Liberal Speaks Out

July/Aug 2007 Vol. 70, No. 6	How a handful of doctors found one of the deadliest kinds of TB in the world The Sterling Map Collection The Yale Political Union Commencement 2007

May/June 2007 Vol. 70, No. 5	Yalies Who Rock Revamping the MBA Looking for Lady Jane

March/April 2007 Vol. 70, No. 4	The Birth of Birth Fictional Yalies Martin Bresnick, a Maestro from the Bronx

Jan/Feb 2007 Vol. 70, No. 3	The Milgram Experiments Revisited Students and Plagiarism Rebirth of the Art Gallery Why Yale College Will Keep Early Admissions

Nov/Dec 2006 Vol. 70, No. 2	Yale Divinity School & the Future of Protestantism How to Get Out of Beiruit in a Hurry Freshman Address

Sept/Oct 2006 Vol. 70, No. 1	Yale Dictionary of Quotations The Rise, Fall, and Rise of New Haven’s Elms The Rediscovery of Architect Eero Saarinen That Guy in the Mac Ad? He’s a Yalie.

July/Aug 2006 Vol. 69, No. 6	The Bulldog and the Panther: May Day 1970 Shakespeare’s Will From Page to Stage: The Carlotta Festival Extreme Eating: The Doodle Burger Challenge Commencement Bacalaureate Address

May/June 2006 Vol. 69, No. 5	Evolution in a Petri Dish Grove Street Cemetery Should Former Taliban Spokesman Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi be at Yale? Did Skull and Bones Rob Geronimo’s Grave?

March/April 2006 Vol. 69, No. 4	The Baby Gamble: Can Mothers Succeed in Academia? The Central Power Plant Stalking the Killer Mosquito

Jan/Feb 2006 Vol. 69, No. 3	Yale Under Construction Brundibar at the Yale Rep Man & Myth at Yale: Charles Hill

Nov/Dec 2005 Vol. 69, No. 2	Half Full and Half Empty: Drinking at Yale Aural History: Yale’s Collection of Early Vocal Recordings Comfort Food: Claire’s Corner Copia

Sept/Oct 2005 Vol. 69, No. 1	Breaking the Tantrum Cycle: Child Psychologist Alan Kazdin Louise Bryant’s Long-Lost Papers Mission to Guantanamo: Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh

July/Aug 2005 Vol. 68, No. 6	Yale’s $8 Billion Man: David Swensen Why the liberal arts are good for business The Baccalaureate Address

May/June 2005 Vol. 68, No. 5	Gods & Man at Yale The World Fellows Program Campus Clocks

March/April 2005 Vol. 68, No. 4	John Pepper Wants to Bring Corporate Culture to Yale Are You Charlotte Simmons? William Clark’s Master Map of the Lewis & Clark Expedition

Jan/Feb 2005 Vol. 68, No. 3	Biomedical Engineer Erin Lavik 35th Anniversary of the Afro-American Cultural Center The Game

Nov/Dec 2004 Vol. 68, No. 2	Benoit Mandelbrot, the Father of Fractals When Men Were Men and Football Was Brutal Yale & China

Sept/Oct 2004 Vol. 68, No. 1	The African Art Collection of Charlie Benenson ’33 Why We Hate Midwife Helen Varney Burst ’63MSN

July/Aug 2004 Vol. 67, No. 6	Fencer Sada Jacobson Lux, Veritas, and Sexual Trespass Linsley Pond, the Place where Ecology was Born

May/June 2004 Vol. 67, No. 5	The (Second) Great All-Blue Presidential Race Why a Couple of Yale Professors Advise Eating Bananas Upside Down Yale’s First Student The Campus During WWII

March/April 2004 Vol. 67, No. 4	William Sloane Coffin Jr. Obesity & the American Dream Robot Dogs on a Mission

Jan/Feb 2004 Vol. 67, No. 3	Underground Yale: The Hidden Collections The Quest to Cure Dyslexia What Does an Undergrad Need to Know? Carlos Eire

Nov/Dec 2003 Vol. 67, No. 2	East Timor Genocide How Yale Got its Groove Back Where the Wild Things Are David Gelernter vs. Goliath

Sept/Oct 2003 Vol. 67, No. 1	The Second Coming of the Divinity School Flight to Glory: WWI Gilmore Girls The High Cost of Winning

Summer 2003 Vol. 66, No. 8	The Books that Made the Writers The Golden Hours of the Romanovs ’68 Reunion at the White House Commencement

May 2003 Vol. 66, No. 7	Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty YUAG Renovation & Expansion The Political Science Department Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein ’95

April 2003 Vol. 66, No. 6	Larry Kramer Yale Bologna Festival Urban Design Workshop

March 2003 Vol. 66, No. 5	Studies in Grand Strategy The Medical School’s Congress Avenue Building Deane Keller’s WWII Papers

February 2003 Vol. 66, No. 4	The 10 Greatest Yalies Who Never Were Astronomy & the End of the World New BAC Director Amy Meyers

December 2002 Vol. 66, No. 3	Yale Entrepreneurial Society Rediscovering Machu Picchu AYA Assembly: Second Chance

November 2002 Vol. 66, No. 2	Inside Autism Finding Franklin Secrets of the Maya Temple School Days in the West Bank

October 2002 Vol. 66, No. 1	The Trouble with Frogs The Duke & I Ulysses S. Grant Foundation

Summer 2002 Vol. 65, No. 8	Making Music Matter Considering Free Speech A Lower Key Commencement

May 2002 Vol. 65, No. 7	The Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center How ’bout that Men’s Basketball Team? Charles Lindbergh in New Haven

April 2002 Vol. 65, No. 6	Review of the University by the Committee on Yale College Education Degree Special Students Rebuilding Engineering

March 2002 Vol. 65, No. 5	New Drama Dean James Bundy Degree Special Students School of Management Dean Jeffrey Garten

February 2002 Vol. 64, No. 4	Leading the Libraries The Slavery Legacy Learning from September 11 by John Lewis Gaddis

December 2001 Vol. 65, No. 3	A Festive Finale: Yale Tercentennial The Past & Future University by President Levin Gender Matters: Where We Stand

November 2001 Vol. 65, No. 2	A More Global Yale Belief, Bricks & Beyond: The Yale Divinity School An Alumna on the Mommy Track Thinks About Priorities

October 2001 Vol. 65, No. 1	America the Beautiful at the YUAG States of a Union: GESO The Freshman Address

Summer 2001 Vol. 64, No. 8	Commencement Gerhard Casper, Eli’s Stanford Man Sticking with China Tercentennial Talent

May 2001 Vol. 64, No. 7	New Haven: Biotech City? Student Drinking Urban Planner Alexander Garvin

April 2001 Vol. 64, No. 6	The Gilder Boathouse Lights! Camera! Yale! The Impact of Athletic Excess Paul Mellon’s Personal Best

Special Tercentennial Edition Vol. 64, No. 5	“Quarrels with Providence” by Lewis Lapham Yale’s Lost Landmarks Distinguished Graduates & Dropouts

February 2001 Vol. 64, No. 4	Technology & Privacy George W. Bush ’68 by Carter Wiseman ’68 The University’s $70 Million Windfall from an Unorthodox Class Gift

December 2000 Vol. 64, No. 3	The New Art School Building Yale Egyptologists “The Selectivity Squeeze” by Robert Reich Tercentennial Kickoff

November 2000 Vol. 64, No. 2	Deciphering the Admissions Map Kurt Schmoke, the Yale Corporation’s First African American Senior Fellow

October 2000 Vol. 64, No. 1	Sherwin Nuland: A Matter of Life & Death 100 Years of Drama at Yale Who Wrote “Boola Boola”?

Summer 2000 Vol. 63, No. 8	Framing the Future: The Campus “Un-plan” Replanting Ecology President Levin on the Internet Revolution

May 2000 Vol. 63, No. 7	Serious About the Sciences What the Deans Do Early Italian Paintings Lost & Found

April 2000 Vol. 63, No. 6	Welcome to World Lit Cataloging Creation: Abandoning the Linnean System The Legacy of History Professor C. Vann Woodward

March 2000 Vol. 63, No. 5	Historian John Lewis Gaddis on the Cold War The Magical Medical Mouse The Persistence of Poetry

February 2000 Vol. 63, No. 4	All About Attitude: Athletics Under Tom Beckett Fall Sports Season Going Local: Alumni Careers in the Elm City

December 1999 Vol. 63, No. 3	How “Inky” Clark & Kingman Brewster Transformed Yale

November 1999 Vol. 63, No. 2	The Circuits of the Future Berkeley College’s $35 Million Renovation No Doctor? No Problem: Nurse Practitioners & Physician Assistants

October 1999 Vol. 63, No. 1	New Forestry School Dean James Gustave Speth How Historian Gaddis Smith Sees Yale’s Past Levi Jackson ’50: Hometown Hero Countdown to 300

Summer 1999 Vol. 62, No. 8	A Tribute to Paul Mellon ’29 Afro-Am at 30 GESO The Baccalaureate Address

May 1999 Vol. 62, No. 7	International Adoption New YUAG Director Jock Reynolds Female Professors

April 1999 Vol. 62, No. 6	The “New” Center for British Art The Mory’s Mystique Some Freshman Perspectives

March 1999 Vol. 62, No. 5	The Return of Robert A. M. Stern Yale Merchandise A Flourish of Fellowships

February 1999 Vol. 62, No. 4	Barnes & Noble, and Mom & Pop How Sterling Professors Get That Way A More Global Yale?

December 1998 Vol. 62, No. 3	Welcome to Yale, the Restaurant Beyond Women’s Studies

November 1998 Vol. 62, No. 2	Renovating a Classic Campus The New Nurses

October 1998 Vol. 62, No. 1	How Yale Handles Dual-Career Couples Frats are Ba-ack! Linguistics Keeps on Talkin’ The Freshman Address

Summer 1998 Vol. 61, No. 8	The Spock Legacy New Vice President Bruce Alexander ’65 The Graduate School’s New Dean, Neurobiologist Susan Hockfield

May 1998 Vol. 61, No. 7	Stephen Carter on Civility Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute Amazin’ Blades: Men’s Hockey

April 1998 Vol. 61, No. 6	Biomedical Goes Major Squelching Student-Teacher Romance The New Center for Language Study

March 1998 Vol. 61, No. 5	Yale’s Tallest Tales History’s New Team Charles Ives, Cranky Composer

February 1998 Vol. 61, No. 4	The School of Medicine & the Healthcare Revolution The A&A Building That Won’t Go Away

December 1997 Vol. 61, No. 3	Rewired Editor William F. Buckley Jr. ’50 Tackles Teaching The “Improv” Scene

November 1997 Vol. 61, No. 2	How a Course Happens Irish paintings at the Yale Center for British Art Yale College Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg

October 1997 Vol. 61, No. 1	How Yale raised a whopping $1.7 billion Can Jack Siedlecki “Get It Done”? A New Opening to China The Freshman Address

Summer 1997 Vol. 60, No. 8	The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences turns 150 Cellist Inbal Megiddo ’98, ’01MusM, ’02ArtA The Baccalaureate Address

May 1997 Vol. 60, No. 7	Art and the Undergraduate

April 1997 Vol. 60, No. 6	William Blake paintings at the Yale Center for British Art Learning the secrets of immunity

March 1997 Vol. 60, No. 5	The Yale of My Day

February 1997 Vol. 60, No. 4	International students The Push for Women’s Health

December 1996 Vol. 60, No. 3	Public Health & the Future of Medicine Preparing for Yale’s Fourth Century Campus Politics Making a Comeback Schizophrenia research at the Yale School of Medicine

November 1996 Vol. 60, No. 2	The Changing Face of the Campus Cop Carm Cozza’s Last Call Eastern European culture from scratch

October 1996 Vol. 60, No. 1	Arts & the Elm City Putting Teaching To the Test The Freshman Address

Summer 1996 Vol. 59, No. 8	Teaching Ethics in An Age of Ambivalence Transcript vs. Potential On Learning to Write Well Director of Undergraduate Admissions Margit Dahl

May 1996 Vol. 59, No. 7	The Vinland Map Resolving Psychotherapy’s Identity Crisis

April 1996 Vol. 59, No. 6	Back to the “Killing Fields” The High Cost of Quality Science

March 1996 Vol. 59, No. 5	Lean on Me The Future of the Yale Divinity School The Undergraduate Publication Proliferation

February 1996 Vol. 59, No. 4	Scholarly Athletics SOM: Under New Management

December 1995 Vol. 59, No. 3	Yale Field Yale Law School Students in Action Yale board games

November 1995 Vol. 59, No. 2	The Masters’ Touch Rethinking Philosophy The new Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life

October 1995 Vol. 59, No. 1	Collecting from the Heart: Richard Brown Baker ’35 Remembering Musical Master Paul Hindemith The Freshman Address

Summer 1995 Vol. 58, No. 8	Bass, Yale, and Western Civ. The Baccalaureate Address

May 1995 Vol. 58, No. 7	Work, Study, Study, Work

April 1995 Vol. 58, No. 6	The Emerging Urban University “Things” at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

March 1995 Vol. 58, No. 5	The Pathways of Pain

February 1995 Vol. 58, No. 4	The Arts Amid Academe The Play’s Still the Thing The university’s five-year effort to raise $1.5 billion

December 1994 Vol. 58, No. 3	How the Earth Works Tracking Tenure in the ’90s

November 1994 Vol. 58, No. 2	The New A.D., Tom Beckett The Rebuilding of Engineering The residential colleges vs. off-campus apartments

October 1994 Vol. 58, No. 1	Finding the First Farmers And the Bands Play On Dimensions of Dying The Freshman Address

Summer 1994 Vol. 57, No. 8	The Changing Face of Affirmative Action Yale Provost Alison Richard President Levin’s first Baccalaureate Address

May 1994 Vol. 57, No. 7	Not the Same Old Summertime

April 1994 Vol. 57, No. 6	An Anatomy of Multiculturalism The Heart of the Flame Gary Fryer, Yale’s new Office of Public Affairs director

March 1994 Vol. 57, No. 5	Physicist Thomas Appelquist, dean of the Graduate School Beating Crime from the Bottom Up Behind the scenes at the Yale University Art Gallery

February 1994 Vol. 57, No. 4	Making a Place for Learning University Secretary Linda Koch Lorimer This Thing Called Love

December 1993 Vol. 57, No. 3	The new Institute for Biospheric Studies The Attraction of Toad’s Place Richard C. Levin, Yale’s 22nd President The Inaugural Address

November 1993 Vol. 57, No. 2	How Computers Are Changing Academe Restoring New Haven to its former self Women Athletes Take the Spotlight

October 1993 Vol. 57, No. 1	A Life in Writing: John Hersey, 1914–1993 Can Need-Blind Survive? The first new building on Science Hill since the 1960s President Richard C. Levin’s first Freshman Address A conversation with Richard C. Levin

Summer 1993 Vol. 56, No. 8	The New Man, Richard C. Levin, Takes Command As Yale’s 22nd President The Strange Social Life of Swallows Commencement Baccalaureate Address

May 1993 Vol. 56, No. 7	International Studies: As the World Turns A New Dean for the College, Richard Hallek Brodhead ’68, ’72PhD The Art School’s Impact

April 1993 Vol. 56, No. 6	What Is It About Yale Law? Mapping “Cultural Studies” Science Into Dollars: The Tech-Transfer Debate

March 1993 Vol. 56, No. 5	Getting Into Yale Original Oarsmanship: The 1852 Yale-Harvard Boat Race Forestry Goes Global

February 1993 Vol. 56, No. 4	The University and the Unions The New Children’s Hospital Stellar Soccer

December 1992 Vol. 56, No. 3	A Note to Our Readers The Old West: A New Look Fred Koetter, the new dean of the School of Architecture Memory Research at the School of Medicine

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