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November 1998
Volume 62, Number 2

Feature stories:

Renovating a Classic Campus
by Philip Langdon

Mies van der Rohe may, or may not, have said that “God is in the details,” but they make a big difference when you are undertaking a $1-billion renovation of a university. The current campaign is making “deferred maintenance” a thing of the past.

The New Nurses
by Mark Alden Branch ’86
In recent years, graduates of the School of Nursing have made careers as primary care providers and clinical specialists. Now, as the School celebrates its 75th anniversary and the fruition of its doctoral degree program, nursing students and faculty are building a body of research that will lead to better patient care.

The Best of all Possible Worlds
A collection of vintage globes made in Europe and America between 1699 and 1873 and given to Yale in 1980 by Jonathan Trumbull Lanman ’40, ’43MD, has gone on display for the first time in Sterling Library. The exhibit allows scholars to reenter a world before satellite photography and global positioning systems.

Letters

Light and Verity
+  the cap on faculty size is lifted
+  SOM switches to an MBA
+  the “swing dorm” opens to raves
+  Yale reclaims its number-one ranking, but has to share
+  tracking billion-year-old worms
+  a dispute over Med School billing is resolved
+  the Canal trail will flow through campus
+  WYBC gets an AM counterpart

Faces

Inside the Blue Book

Calendar

From the Archives

In Print

College Comment

Details

News from Alumni House

Old Yale
Before the artist Frederic Remington began chronicling the life of the cowboy, he tried another rough-and-tumble pursuit: Yale football.

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