Dr. Kimberly Hieftje of Yale School of Medicine has been awarded $460,000 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to support her research on “A Digital Intervention for HIV Prevention in Black Adolescent Girls.”
The two-year grant...
When science writer Harriet A. Washington first set out to study toxins in the environment, she was discouraged from focusing on topics of race and socioeconomic status. After all, recent studies have found that 95% of people have been exposed to and...
The Yale School of Medicine’s Valentina Greco and Marina R. Picciotto are among the 11 recipients of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Pioneer Award, which recognizes scientists who have a history of creative research and who show promise in...
Eve Ensler, the Tony Award-winning playwright of “The Vagina Monologues,” says humans have a superpower so great it can conjure the dead and burn away cancer: It’s our imagination.
Ten years ago, when she was diagnosed with stage-three uterine cancer,...
A Yale alumnus, graduate student, and undergraduate senior will be honored for their public service with Yale-Jefferson Awards.
Modeled after the national Jefferson Award (known as the “Nobel Prize for public service”), the Yale honor was established in...
Standing in the greenhouse at the Marsh Botanical Gardens one day in November, surrounded by sundews, cacti, and ponytail palms, Wade H. Elmer turned his attention to a vegetable: asparagus, his topic for the evening.
As the Connecticut Agricultural ...
Pulitzer Prize winner Quíara Alegría Hudes ’99 B.A., who wrote the play for the Tony Award-winning musical “In the Heights,” spoke in the O.C. Marsh Lecture Hall on Jan. 27 as part of the Women of Yale Lecture series hosted by President Peter Salovey.
In...
You might imagine a science lab looking a bit sterile and impersonal — little sunlight, masked figures in white coats pouring neon-colored liquid into beakers, all business. You might not expect to hear a science lab referred to as familial, where...