yale

Beaver Dad Carves Heirloom on ShopBot

Beaver Dad Carves Heirloom on ShopBot

This morning, Tim Wilczynski graduated from MIT, and I have it on good authority that his dad, Vince Wilczynski, “Dean Vince” of the Yale School of Engineering, handed him a beautiful family heirloom—a wooden beaver lovingly carved by a father for his son. It’s not the same hand-carved wooden beaver Tim’s grandfather had presented to Vince […]

Continue Reading
Professor Strobel’s Superb Bowls

Professor Strobel’s Superb Bowls

Professor Scott Strobel carves out time from his busy schedule as a Yale vice president and overseeing two labs in biophysics and biochemistry to make things of beauty: wooden bowls reclaimed from fallen trees around campus. Playing off a pun of his university’s football stadium, and with an approving nod from his colleagues in the Yale administration, he calls them “Yale Bowls.”

Continue Reading