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October 2002
Volume 66, Number 1

Feature stories:

The Trouble with Frogs
by Bruce Fellman
Ecologist David Skelly is attempting to solve a puzzle: the recent appearance of amphibians with abnormal limbs. The answer could shed light on the mystery of human disease.

The Duke and I
by Arthur Galston
Edward Kennedy Ellington was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1967. A Yale biologist tells how the Duke became Doc.

A Firm Foundation
by Mark Alden Branch ’86
Since 1953, the Ulysses S. Grant Foundation has given Yale undergraduates a place to try teaching—and New Haven schoolchildren the inspiration to dream big.

One Good Turn
by Bruce Fellman
As an exhibition at the Art Gallery shows, wood turning has metamorphosed from simple craft to high art.

Freshman Address
by Richard Levin ’74PhD
If the Class of 2006 needed a role model, Yale’s President told freshmen to look no further than Benjamin Franklin.

Letters

Light & Verity
+  labor negotiations bog down
+  Princeton sorry for online snooping
+  goodbye Coliseum
+  Blue Planet award for FES dean
+  roundballers in Italy

Calendar
Wood works; book art; romantic painting.

Details
Mathematicians by birth.

In Print
Rich natural history; Greek life; a prof’s early days.

College Comment
Making the most of summer.

Faces
R. W. B. Lewis recalled; new crew coach; jazz great.

From the Archives

Inside the Blue Book
The physics of getting ahead.

News from Alumni House

Old Yale
A family’s gift of music.

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