As far back as kindergarten, Katherine Rotker had her heart set on a career in medicine. A teacher asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, and she answered, “OB/GYN.”
“They delivered babies, and that sounded fascinating to me,” Rotker says....
An extinct reptile’s oddly shaped chompers, fingers, and ear bones may tell us quite a bit about the resilience of life on Earth, according to a new study.
In fact, paleontologists at Yale, Sam Houston State University, and the University of the...
Yale senior Emily Quisenberry steps lively from her room in Grace Hopper College to meet friends outside Sterling Memorial Library on a bright Friday afternoon. She’s got all the gear she needs to greet the rest of her day on campus: cell phone, laptop,...
In the first study of its kind, Yale researchers found striking differences in the mortality rate of older Americans within a year of having major surgery. These differences were particularly pronounced for geriatric-specific conditions such as frailty or...
Those massive, swirling radar images shown on TV during hurricane season may have an unexpected analog in the deepest reaches of the cosmos — extrasolar storms of dust and gas from which nascent planets begin to form.
Both storms — terrestrial and...
Make way for the vaccine van.
A new “pop-up” clinic makes getting the updated, bivalent COVID-19 booster shot even more convenient by bringing health-giving vaccines to the heart of campus.
The pilot program, a collaboration of Yale Health, Being Well at...
Dinosaurs — and birds — wouldn’t have been able to stand on their own two feet without some radical changes to their upper thigh bones. Now, a new study by Yale paleontologists charts the evolutionary course of these leggy alterations.
The findings...
Yale researchers have identified the oldest-known, definitive members of the lizard crown group that includes all living lizards and their closest extinct relatives.
The two new species, Eoscincus ornatus and Microteras borealis, fill important gaps in...
A piece of Yale-developed technology has helped astronomers follow the fiery trail of the so-called “hell planet,” an exoplanet located 40 light years from Earth and nicknamed for its extremely close orbit to its sun.
The EXtreme PREcision Spectrometer (...
Yale has created a new scholarship program to support New Haven public school students who choose to attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
The Pennington Fellowship is established with Hampton University, Morehouse College, Morgan...