Akintunde Ahmad and Kwasi Enin: high school celebrities
It's common for high schools to hold news conferences to announce where their star athletes will go to college. And it's common for observers to mutter: “Why don't we give our top students the same...
View ArticleStephanie Dawson ’91: opening science, globally
There's a new player in the burgeoning open science movement: ScienceOpen, a website that launched this week with a Yalie at its helm and more than 1 million scientific papers available for...
View ArticleMax Borenstein ’03: Godzilla's heart of darkness
Back in junior high school English class, we learned that literature always revolves around three basic conflicts: man vs. man, man vs. himself, or man vs. nature.Now, here’s Yale English major Max...
View ArticleCornell William Brooks, ’90JD: new chief for the NAACP
On the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the civil rights organization behind that landmark desegregation case chose a new leader: Cornell William Brooks, ’90JD.“I’m a graduate of Yale...
View ArticleJeff Hobbs ’02: death of a roommate
Robert Peace ’02 was A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League. That's the subtitle of a forthcoming book by his Yale roommate, Jeff Hobbs’02. The main title tells the rest of the...
View ArticlePeter Mutharika ’66LLM, ’69JSD: a new president in Malawi
Two years after his brother, President Bingu Mutharika, passed away, Peter Mutharika ’66LLM, ’69JSD, has assumed the same position. Mutharika, 74, was sworn in on Saturday, becoming the fifth elected...
View ArticleJane Mendillo ’80, ’84MBA: stepping down at Harvard
When Jane Mendillo’80, ’84MBA, became Harvard’s investment chief six years ago, the university’s endowment stood at a record high of nearly $37 billion. Then came the crash.So when Harvard announced...
View ArticleZephyr Teachout ’93: tackling Cuomo from the left
To most of America, Andrew Cuomo is a liberal Democrat. To Zephyr Teachout ’93, the New York governor is not a progressive but “somebody who serves himself and his donors.”That’s why Teachout, a law...
View ArticleCarlos Moreno ’70: Belize bound
When Carlos Moreno ’70 retired from the California Supreme Court in 2011—soon after being reelected—his decision surprised some people. Now, Moreno has landed the seemingly perfect retirement job: US...
View ArticleSamuel Alito ’75JD: the court’s man of the moment
Whatever else you might say about the rulings with which the Supreme Court ended its term this week, you might say—as Politico did in a profile on Tuesday—that “this was Justice Samuel Alito’s moment.”...
View ArticleChristopher ‘Casey’ Cooper ’88: Benghazi on trial
Even before Christopher “Casey” Cooper ’88's formal investiture as a federal judge this week, he landed the kind of case many jurists never get: a high-profile terrorism trial.By random assignment,...
View ArticleMarta Tellado ’02PhD: top rated by Consumer Reports
If you know Consumer Reports simply as the magazine that tells you which toaster to buy, get ready. Marta Tellado ’02PhD is planning to organize you.On Tuesday, Tellado, 55, was named president and CEO...
View ArticleIvy Taylor ’92: Ms. Mayor
When this week started, Ivy Taylor ’92 was just one of ten City Council members in San Antonio, Texas. Tuesday, she became mayor of the nation’s seventh-largest city.Elected by her fellow council...
View ArticleLawrence Lessig ’89JD:‘Embrace the irony’
“Inside-the-Beltway people don’t think this issue matters,” Lawrence Lessig ’89JD tells the New York Times. “We think this issue does matter, and we want to prove it.”Lessig, a Harvard law professor,...
View ArticleJack Griffin ’88MPPM: launching a newspaper company
A new symbol—TPUB—is now turning up in the New York Stock Exchange listings, and behind it is the hope that the newspaper business can still find its way in the twenty-first century. And it’ll be the...
View ArticleAnat Admati ’83PhD: still too big too fail?
A “quixotic” campaign to make banks “more stodgy and less profitable” is finally gaining the attention of President Barack Obama and a Senate banking subcommittee, the New York Times reports. That...
View ArticleMichael Marshall ’84MArch: a park for the Godfather of Go-Go
As Washington, DC, pays tribute to “the Godfather of Go-Go” this week, it is also spotlighting the work of Yale-trained architect Michael Marshall’84MArch.DC native Marshall and his firm designed the...
View ArticleJustin Kan ’05, Emmett Shear ’05: billion dollar men
Would you pay to watch video of other people playing video games?If you said “yes,” you undoubtedly knew about Twitch before this week. Otherwise, you might be among those who were astounded to learn...
View ArticleDee Briggs ’02MArch: pure gold
“When someone dies violently or too early in life,” Dee Briggs ’02MArch writes, “everyone remembers how amazing they were, how tragic their death, how much potential they had. I’m gold to remind you to...
View ArticleSoram Khalsa ’70: celebrity doc with a twist
Soram Khalsa’70 is not your average Beverly Hills doctor. His medical credentials are solid: he’s a board-certified internist with an MD from Case Western Reserve University, in his native Cleveland,...
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