Seven alumni athletes are heading to London for the 2012 Summer Olympics Games — and if you’re looking for them, you’ll find them by the water.Stu McNay ’05 and crew Graham Biehl race downwind at the 2011 Miami Olympic Classes Regatta. McKnay is the...
It was during the 1908 Olympic games in London that Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1909 M.D.) introduced the innovation that would change the sport of pole-vaulting forever and, ironically, cost him sole title to a gold medal.This showing Gilbert in mid-vault...
A bequest from the estate of Margaret Kirkwood Philipsborn has established an endowed professorship in Yale’s Department of Chemistry. Named in memory of her brother, John Gamble Kirkwood, the professorship will support a full-time faculty member in the...
The Week Ender appears every Thursday in Yale News and offers highlights of the many activities taking place at the University Friday-Sunday. Beat the heat by visiting some of Yale’s museums and tour the exhibitions Tour ‘While These Visions Did Appear’:...