Rahul Prasad, ’84 M.S., ’87 Ph.D., chair of the AYA Board of Governors, called the 77th Assembly of the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) and the Yale Alumni Fund Convocation to order in the early morning of Nov. 16. He introduced President Salovey to open...
“For me, personally, Students of Salaam home tutoring has been the best way to deal with homesickness ever,” said Malak Nasr ’19 of Davenport College (DC). “The family speaks Arabic and cooks Middle Eastern food — it is exactly like being in Cairo, except...
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day — so important that some Yale students are dragging themselves out of bed before seven in the morning and trekking down to Wooster Square for the first two hours of their day.
They’re rising early to...
While in the United States heart disease is the leading cause of death, in China it is stroke. People have speculated for years about why the Chinese are predisposed to stroke to a greater extent than heart disease. Some have believed that there is a...
Between 2002 and 2013 in the United States, nonstatin drug use increased by 124%, resulting in a 364% increase in nonstatin-associated expenditures, Yale researchers found. This study was published on Jan. 22, 2018 in the Journal of the American Heart...
Big data is getting bigger. By 2025, genomics will have surpassed astronomy, Twitter, and YouTube to become the largest data-generating enterprise by far. What began 65 years ago when Watson, Crick, and Franklin unlocked the double helix of DNA has become...
“What’s in your cup?”
“How did you get here?”
“Describe one of the things in your cup as a chocolate dessert.”
These are a few questions that repeat throughout season one of the Yale docuseries, “Now, In Color,” a non-fictional exploration of the Black...
For many of us, self-reflection marks the turn of the new year, namely in the form of resolution-making. But few of us ever stop to consider, “What exactly is the ‘self’ I am trying to improve?” A new Yale humanities course, “Selfhood, Race, Class, and...
Over the next decade, about 247,000 young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are expected to enroll in universities, colleges, or technical/vocational schools. Because post-secondary education is expected to present new challenges to individuals...