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,...
On Jan. 23, a small crowd gathered at 100 Church St. South to celebrate the launch of the Alderfer Scholars Program, named in honor of Clay Alderfer ’62 B.A., ’66 Ph.D., a psychologist and former Yale faculty member who devoted his life to studying...
Departure from routine can be especially hard for children with developmental disorders, and the changes to daily life wrought by the pandemic pose an extra challenge for them and for their families.
Yale’s Dr. Fred Volkmar, a leading authority on autism...