Yale 300 hits the home stretch

Yale’s observance of its 300th year began last October with a weekend focused on the University’s ever-stronger ties with New Haven [“Med School Invites Neighbors to Join in Tercentennial Celebration,” Fall 2000|Winter 2001] and continued this spring with a two-day program exploring “300 Years of Creativity and Discovery.” The April convocation featured a dozen medical school faculty members, who led seminars on topics from biotechnology to global health to child development to cancer research. They were in good company; other sessions spotlighted the experiences and contributions of returning alumni, including former President George H.W. Bush, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Carnegie Institution President Maxine F. Singer, Palm Computing and Handspring co-founder Donna Dubinsky, novelist Tom Wolfe and cartoonist Garry Trudeau. The Tercentennial year will culminate Oct. 5 and 6 with an academic convocation on Old Campus and a public celebration in the Yale Bowl. For updates, visit www.yale.edu/yale300.