Class of 1965 55th Reunion - Program & Schedule - 1965

Saturday 5/25/19

• Precision Medicine and the Cancer Therapy Revolution: Fighting Cancer with the Immune System

  May 25

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Yale Center for British Art | Room: Auditorium — 1080 Chapel Street

  Dr. Roy S. Herbst '84 B.S., '84 M.S., Chief of Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital

  Despite improvements in therapy, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the US, after heart disease. For this reason, significant efforts have been made to examine the interaction between cancer and the immune system, leading to the discovery of the programmed death pathway, found to play a key role in immune evasion by cancer cells. Newly approved drugs that target these key immune regulators have revolutionized treatment for many types of cancer. Although these drugs have shown significant activity in some patients, only 15-20% of patients respond overall, so it remains critical that we better understand the biology of cancer and continue to identify predictive markers of sensitivity and resistance. The Yale Center for Immuno-oncology is working in all these areas. New concepts and approaches will be discussed with a focus on target validation and drug discovery.

  Add to Calendar 2019-05-25T09:00:00 2019-05-25T10:00:00 America/New_York Precision Medicine and the Cancer Therapy Revolution: Fighting Cancer with the Immune System

  Dr. Roy S. Herbst '84 B.S., '84 M.S., Chief of Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital

  Despite improvements in therapy, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the US, after heart disease. For this reason, significant efforts have been made to examine the interaction between cancer and the immune system, leading to the discovery of the programmed death pathway, found to play a key role in immune evasion by cancer cells. Newly approved drugs that target these key immune regulators have revolutionized treatment for many types of cancer. Although these drugs have shown significant activity in some patients, only 15-20% of patients respond overall, so it remains critical that we better understand the biology of cancer and continue to identify predictive markers of sensitivity and resistance. The Yale Center for Immuno-oncology is working in all these areas. New concepts and approaches will be discussed with a focus on target validation and drug discovery.

  Yale Center for British Art | Room: Auditorium — 1080 Chapel Street

  

• Precision Medicine and the Cancer Therapy Revolution: Fighting Cancer with the Immune System

  May 25

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Dr. Roy S. Herbst '84 B.S., '84 M.S., Chief of Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital

  Despite improvements in therapy, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the US, after heart disease. For this reason, significant efforts have been made to examine the interaction between cancer and the immune system, leading to the discovery of the programmed death pathway, found to play a key role in immune evasion by cancer cells. Newly approved drugs that target these key immune regulators have revolutionized treatment for many types of cancer. Although these drugs have shown significant activity in some patients, only 15-20% of patients respond overall, so it remains critical that we better understand the biology of cancer and continue to identify predictive markers of sensitivity and resistance. The Yale Center for Immuno-oncology is working in all these areas. New concepts and approaches will be discussed with a focus on target validation and drug discovery.

  Add to Calendar 2019-05-25T09:00:00 2019-05-25T10:00:00 America/New_York Precision Medicine and the Cancer Therapy Revolution: Fighting Cancer with the Immune System

  Dr. Roy S. Herbst '84 B.S., '84 M.S., Chief of Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital

  Despite improvements in therapy, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the US, after heart disease. For this reason, significant efforts have been made to examine the interaction between cancer and the immune system, leading to the discovery of the programmed death pathway, found to play a key role in immune evasion by cancer cells. Newly approved drugs that target these key immune regulators have revolutionized treatment for many types of cancer. Although these drugs have shown significant activity in some patients, only 15-20% of patients respond overall, so it remains critical that we better understand the biology of cancer and continue to identify predictive markers of sensitivity and resistance. The Yale Center for Immuno-oncology is working in all these areas. New concepts and approaches will be discussed with a focus on target validation and drug discovery.

  

• The Future of Knowledge

  May 25

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Linsly-Chittenden Hall | Room: 101 — 63 High Street

  Jeffrey Brock '92, Professor of Mathematics; Dean of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  
  In the age of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science, we see all around us the impact of powerful tools to extract knowledge from data. Whether in advertising, political campaigns, real-time translation tools, or in hard sciences like radiology, genetics, or particle physics, the face of the knowledge frontier has a new complexion. Many of these tools, such as neural networks and deep learning, work alarmingly and uncannily well, and yet we do not fully understand why. Vital questions confront those of us in the academy: how do these tools change the way we understand knowledge acquisition? How do they change how we read texts or analyze political discourse? How do they force us to rethink the scientific method, and how do they allow us to search for new models, theories, and equations that govern the universe? In this talk, I'll discuss Yale's unique position to lead in defining this future of knowledge.

  Add to Calendar 2019-05-25T09:00:00 2019-05-25T10:00:00 America/New_York The Future of Knowledge

  Jeffrey Brock '92, Professor of Mathematics; Dean of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  
  In the age of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science, we see all around us the impact of powerful tools to extract knowledge from data. Whether in advertising, political campaigns, real-time translation tools, or in hard sciences like radiology, genetics, or particle physics, the face of the knowledge frontier has a new complexion. Many of these tools, such as neural networks and deep learning, work alarmingly and uncannily well, and yet we do not fully understand why. Vital questions confront those of us in the academy: how do these tools change the way we understand knowledge acquisition? How do they change how we read texts or analyze political discourse? How do they force us to rethink the scientific method, and how do they allow us to search for new models, theories, and equations that govern the universe? In this talk, I'll discuss Yale's unique position to lead in defining this future of knowledge.

  Linsly-Chittenden Hall | Room: 101 — 63 High Street

  

• Tour of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

  May 25

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library — 121 Wall St.

  The Beinecke Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books. It both houses public exhibitions and serves as a center for teaching and for research by students, faculty, and scholars at Yale and from around the world. On this tour you can learn how students and many others engage the past in the present for the future ... and enjoy the library's current special exhibition of photographer Jerome Zerbe, a 1928 Yale College graduate who found his métier as the first paparazzo, and of celebrated contemporary photo portraitist Michael Childers, plus permanent exhibitions, including the Gutenberg Bible, Audubon's Birds of America, and the 1742 Yale Library. Meet at the south side door to the library, 121 Wall Street. Limited to first 60 participants.

  Add to Calendar 2019-05-25T09:00:00 2019-05-25T10:00:00 America/New_York Tour of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

  The Beinecke Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books. It both houses public exhibitions and serves as a center for teaching and for research by students, faculty, and scholars at Yale and from around the world. On this tour you can learn how students and many others engage the past in the present for the future ... and enjoy the library's current special exhibition of photographer Jerome Zerbe, a 1928 Yale College graduate who found his métier as the first paparazzo, and of celebrated contemporary photo portraitist Michael Childers, plus permanent exhibitions, including the Gutenberg Bible, Audubon's Birds of America, and the 1742 Yale Library. Meet at the south side door to the library, 121 Wall Street. Limited to first 60 participants.

  Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library — 121 Wall St.

  

• Tour of Marsh Botanical Garden

  May 25

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Marsh Botanical Garden | Room: Garden Tour — 227 Mansfield St.

  Marsh Botanical Garden is eight acres of plantings on Science Hill with six greenhouses for teaching and research. Enjoy a stroll with Associate Director Kunso Kim through the naturalistically designed beds, full of rare plants and plants of historical interest, and explore the glass houses with their special collections of desert plants, carnivorous plants, and edible tropical plants like chocolate, coffee and cinnamon. Please note: This tour is limited to 20 participants.

  Add to Calendar 2019-05-25T09:00:00 2019-05-25T10:00:00 America/New_York Tour of Marsh Botanical Garden

  Marsh Botanical Garden is eight acres of plantings on Science Hill with six greenhouses for teaching and research. Enjoy a stroll with Associate Director Kunso Kim through the naturalistically designed beds, full of rare plants and plants of historical interest, and explore the glass houses with their special collections of desert plants, carnivorous plants, and edible tropical plants like chocolate, coffee and cinnamon. Please note: This tour is limited to 20 participants.

  Marsh Botanical Garden | Room: Garden Tour — 227 Mansfield St.

  

• Tour of Wright Laboratory - A Portal to the Universe

  May 25

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Wright Laboratory | Room: lab — 272 Whitney Ave.

  For years the Wright Laboratory housed a landmark nuclear accelerator. In recent years, Wright Lab was transformed into a state-of-the-art technical facility and research center to study neutrinos, dark matter, and the invisible Universe. Come for a tour led by Wright Lab Program Manager, Victoria Misenti and her colleagues to learn about how Wright Lab is leading the development of novel instrumentation for the exploration of the Universe and advancing the frontiers of fundamental physics.

  Note: Walk through Lot 22 behind the Peabody Museum; look for the big blue "Portal" sculpture in front of the lab on your right. Bus transportation provided in front of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect St., across from Woolsey Hall.

  Add to Calendar 2019-05-25T09:00:00 2019-05-25T10:00:00 America/New_York Tour of Wright Laboratory - A Portal to the Universe

  For years the Wright Laboratory housed a landmark nuclear accelerator. In recent years, Wright Lab was transformed into a state-of-the-art technical facility and research center to study neutrinos, dark matter, and the invisible Universe. Come for a tour led by Wright Lab Program Manager, Victoria Misenti and her colleagues to learn about how Wright Lab is leading the development of novel instrumentation for the exploration of the Universe and advancing the frontiers of fundamental physics.

  Note: Walk through Lot 22 behind the Peabody Museum; look for the big blue "Portal" sculpture in front of the lab on your right. Bus transportation provided in front of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect St., across from Woolsey Hall.

  Wright Laboratory | Room: lab — 272 Whitney Ave.

  

• What's Worth Wanting?

  May 25

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Loria Center | Room: 351 — 190 York St.

  What's worth wanting? This is a question The Rev. Dr. Matthew Croasmun, of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School, asks students in his popular course. We live our lives day to day solving problems, taking on projects, trying to achieve our goals, sometimes asking just what it is we want to achieve after all. But deeper questions are always there, often waiting just out of view as we go about our usual routines: What kind of life would be truly worth wanting? What kind of world would be truly worth seeking? How ought we to live?

  Add to Calendar 2019-05-25T09:00:00 2019-05-25T10:00:00 America/New_York What's Worth Wanting?

  What's worth wanting? This is a question The Rev. Dr. Matthew Croasmun, of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School, asks students in his popular course. We live our lives day to day solving problems, taking on projects, trying to achieve our goals, sometimes asking just what it is we want to achieve after all. But deeper questions are always there, often waiting just out of view as we go about our usual routines: What kind of life would be truly worth wanting? What kind of world would be truly worth seeking? How ought we to live?

  Loria Center | Room: 351 — 190 York St.

  

• Tour of the New Residential Colleges

  May 25

  9:00AM – 11:15AM

  Current Yale students stand ready to guide you through the two new residential colleges – Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray – with their spectacular towers, elegant dining halls and fine stone carvings and gates. Tours will be offered throughout the 2 1/2 hour period.

  Add to Calendar 2019-05-25T09:00:00 2019-05-25T11:15:00 America/New_York Tour of the New Residential Colleges

  Current Yale students stand ready to guide you through the two new residential colleges – Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray – with their spectacular towers, elegant dining halls and fine stone carvings and gates. Tours will be offered throughout the 2 1/2 hour period.

  

• Morning at Yale

  May 25

  9:00AM – 11:30AM

  Reunion attendees from all classes will have their choice of a number of stimulating faculty lectures; tours of the gym and the Newberry organ; a singing workshop; and children's activities at Yale's museums.

  Add to Calendar 2019-05-25T09:00:00 2019-05-25T11:30:00 America/New_York Morning at Yale

  Reunion attendees from all classes will have their choice of a number of stimulating faculty lectures; tours of the gym and the Newberry organ; a singing workshop; and children's activities at Yale's museums.