To honor and remember the Yale alumni and loved ones lost on Sept. 11, 2001, the Harkness Tower carillon bells tolled four times to mark the tragic events of that historic day, at 8:46 a.m. (World Trade Center North Tower), 9:03 a.m. (World Trade Center...
Over the course of a varied and prolific career, Wayne Koestenbaum has published poetry collections, volumes of cultural criticism, novels, and a libretto. Two years ago, he plunged into an entirely different sort of project, one that involved managing...
A woman’s bone marrow may determine her ability to start and sustain a pregnancy, report Yale researchers in PLOS Biology. The study shows that when an egg is fertilized, stem cells leave the bone marrow and travel via the bloodstream to the uterus, where...
Building upon her hugely popular 2018 class and online Coursera course, Yale psychologist Laurie Santos is hosting a new 10-episode podcast, The Happiness Lab.
Santos explores some new takes on the science of what truly makes us happy and talks with some...
Yale’s Department of Neurology is one of seven medical institutions awarded $4 million from the National Institutes of Health to assess acute ischemic stroke treatments in rodent models. As a part of the Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network (SPAN),...
Anne Gardiner Perkins ’81 arrived at Yale eight years after women were first admitted to the university as undergraduates, and by then, nobody was talking about what life was like for those pioneering female students.
In a talk at the Wilton Public...
Yale and other institutions of higher education have signed a letter from the American Council on Education to congressional leaders calling for bipartisan legislation to provide permanent protection for so-called Dreamers (PDF), “young, undocumented,...