University | 3:17 pm | January 26, 2013 | By Dan Weiner

Free Internet TV debuts with 28 channels

After months of anticipation, Yalies on Friday could finally stream live high-definition TV to their laptops through IPTV provider Tivli. Yale, say hello to the new service and goodbye to your productivity. While Tivli currently features 28 channels ranging from the History Channel to Comedy Central, it is notably missing HBO GO, the on-demand archive »

Sci-Tech | 11:08 am | January 14, 2013 | By Dan Weiner

New CEID café seeks name, logo

A new café in the Becton Center is seeking a name and logo.

Want to impress Linda Lorimer, win a gift card and have your wit displayed for eternity in one fell swoop? The Center for Engineering Innovation and Design is hosting a logo and name competition for its new café, which will open on Jan. 22 on the first floor of the Becton Center. Members of the »

Sci-Tech | 10:51 pm | November 7, 2012 | By Dan Weiner

‘Hoodie Day’ brings engineering students together

Adam Goone ’13 and Lidiya Dervisheva ’13 organized School of Engineering Hoodie Day in the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design.

Blinding snow and bitter winds could not dampen spirits inside the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design Wednesday evening as juniors and seniors gathered together for the School of Engineering’s “Hoodie Day.” In previous years, juniors received the traditional blue engineering sweaters from their department secretaries with little fanfare. But seniors Adam Goone ’13 and »

University | 10:22 pm | October 29, 2012 | By Dan Weiner

Ginkgo tree in TD courtyard loses limb

TD's ginkgo tree has seen better days. In this screenshot, the tree loses a limb to the howling winds of Hurricane Sandy.

Hurricane Sandy’s howling winds tore a limb from one of the most beloved members of Timothy Dwight College Monday afternoon, ripping down one of the upper branches from the massive ginkgo tree stationed in the TD courtyard. Timothy Dwight Master Jeffrey Brenzel addressed the loss in a Monday evening email to the TD community, writing »

Magazine | 10:24 pm | November 8, 2011 | By Dan Weiner

Gopnik brings warmth, prose

Adam Gopnik theorized that the popularity of sustainable food may be simply a fad during his lecture hosted by the Yale Sustainable Food Project.

Adam Gopnik is a Renaissance man, a prolific essayist most famous for roughly 25 years of service at the The New Yorker magazine and for penning books that cover myriad topics from the connection between Darwin and Lincoln to reflections on his years in Paris. On Monday evening, Gopnik entertained a crowd of approximately 150 »