Yale is ramping up opportunities in entrepreneurship focused on healthcare and life sciences this year, said Chris Loose, executive director of the new Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT) a session held Nov. 13 as part of the...
The Entrepreneurship Across Yale contest weekend, held at the School of Management on April 17, featured finalists for the $25,000 Sabin Prize, presented by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale; the $25,000 Thorne Prize, presented by...
Jonathan Rothberg ’91 Ph.D. leans over the wooden table at Pa’s Place, a small food stand on the site of his accelerator 4Catalyzer in Guilford, Connecticut, his hands moving animatedly. Outside, just across the street, the Long Island Sound stretches...
In 2012, Boston magazine published a feature story called “Lawrence, MA: City of the Damned.” It chronicled the many woes of the state’s poorest city – a mayor under investigation, a steep rise in crime, rampant drugs, and a school system that had been...
The Kon-Tiki expedition – when Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, five crew members, and a Spanish-speaking parrot journeyed by raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947 – was inspired by his conviction that people from South America settled in...