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First Up — Yale Online

An often overlooked resource you can find online lives in an ivory tower. That’s right, at the web site of your local (or not so local) university.

I grew up in academia out in the midwest section of the United States. While no world is perfect (and certainly no academic institution has a lock on truth or knowledge), it is nevertheless the case that universities are treasure chests holding some of the world’s most interesting and valuable resources. Outstanding art galleries, film holdings, lectures, library collections, museums, online classes, performing arts organizations, scientific research labs and collections, and more are available to you with just a few clicks of a mouse.

While students pay to attend these schools, you can benefit in many ways from the free online resources that nearly all colleges and universities, in the U.S. at least, put online. For lifelong learning, you just cannot beat the enormous world of academia online.

You’ll soon see the first in a series of articles I have planned about the online resources of universities, both great and small, from around the world. I’ll be starting with Yale University, online.

Why Yale? Because Yale has played such an important part in my own life story. After three years at the Yale School of Music, I graduated with a Master’s (MM) degree and a Master’s of Musical Arts (MMA) degree in cello performance. There I found the most wonderful wife. Many amazing professors still speak to me (inside my head), and it is always such a joyous reunion to run into one of them. I am deeply grateful to Yale university and to all whom I have been privileged to know through the university.

While you’re waiting for the full series to begin, here are just a few of Yale’s incredible offerings:

• Anti-Gravity Society
  Yale University Student Organization
• Collection of Coins and Medals
  Yale University Art Gallery
• Concerts at the Sound Gallery
  Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments
• Darwin’s Letter to O.C. Marsh
  Peabody Museum of Natural History
• Role of Faiths in the Processes of Globalization
  Faith and Globalization Initiative

• Science & Engineering News
  Office of Public Affairs
• Search Digitized Images at the Beinecke
  Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
• The Viola Question
  Yale University Student Organization
• When Scientists Become Artists
  Yale Medicine Magazine - School of Medicine
• Witness: Voices from the Holocaust
  Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
• Yale Insignia Merchandise
  Yale Licensing