For the culminating event of the 50WomenAtYale150 initiative, which commemorates 50 years of coeducation in Yale College and 150 years of women at Yale, organizers convened a diverse group of Yale’s most inspiring women leaders to address the biggest...
When the first pregnant woman diagnosed with COVID-19 was admitted to Yale New Haven Hospital in March, she was in her second trimester and critically ill. At the time, almost nothing was known about how the novel coronavirus disease impacted pregnant...
To understand the importance of early-life attachment to mothers and how it affects the likelihood of success across generations, we can learn a lot from monkeys, say scientists.
In a long-term study of rhesus monkeys, Yale researchers have quantified the...
When Jodie Foster ’84 B.A. first arrived on the Yale campus as an undergraduate student in 1980 —“on a warm August day in dolphin shorts” — she hoped that no one would notice she didn’t belong.
“I wasn’t smart enough, deep enough, or preppy enough to...
Hillary Clinton ’73 J.D. had been accepted to both Harvard and Yale Law Schools and was deciding where to go when she was introduced to a Harvard professor at a cocktail party. “He said, ‘we don’t have a nearest competitor, and we don’t need any more...
When five distinguished Yale alumnae were asked to join a discussion on racial injustice as part of the culminating event for the 50WomenAtYale150 initiative, they were eager to participate, said Sheryl Carter Negash ’82 B.A. Each works on the front lines...
The gut’s microbiome — a complex, dense mixture of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes — plays an integral role in human health. A new Yale study reveals just how early the microbiome is formed and begins delivering this benefit.
For the first time, Yale...
A year and a half ago, when researchers at the Yale Child Study Center (CSC) began developing a virtual program to train parents how to manage children’s tantrums, they had no idea just how popular telehealth treatments would become in the face of a...
A Yale-designed treatment, in which emergency department doctors administer the drug buprenorphine to patients experiencing opioid use disorder, has been increasingly adopted in hospitals across the U.S., a new analysis finds.
Writing in the JAMA Network...
Ken Jennings ’76 B.S. says one of the most important resources offered by volunteers at the Navigating Career Choices Conference in Seattle — run by the Yale Alumni Association of Western Washington in partnership with the Yale Black Alumni Association...