Since 2016, Weili Cheng ’77 has served as a kind of alumna-in-chief for Yale’s 180,000 alumni worldwide.
But early next year, the lawyer, former senior executive for The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company and Marriott International, and former Pierson College...
When Victoria M. “Vicky” Chun arrived as Yale’s athletic director in 2018, following the long service of predecessor Tom Beckett, people familiar with her knew Yale had hired a proven winner.
Chun’s five years at the helm have borne that out.
During a...
When U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ’71 Ph.D. arrived at Yale as a graduate student in 1967, she was excited to work with the economist James Tobin. A distinguished teacher and renowned economist who would go on to win the Nobel Prize, Tobin...
All humans have a diverse set of blood stem cell types which dictate the composition and function of our blood and immune cells and ultimately help govern overall health. Older people tend to lose this diversity of blood stem cells, which can make them...
In August 2022, U.S. health officials declared mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) a public health emergency. At that time, however, the national supply of the approved preventative treatment — the smallpox/mpox vaccine Jynneos — was severely constrained,...
The federal government’s Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC), which provides official advice to the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, has approved a long-range plan for nuclear physics research in the next decade — and...
When Alexander Ambrosini and Emily Fishman were considering different hospital residencies a couple of years ago, one of the factors that drew them to Yale School of Medicine (YSM) was the school’s emphasis on connecting with the New Haven community....
The ability to map connections between different regions of the brain has helped scientists better understand the brain’s relationship to behavior, how brains differ between people, and how they’re affected by disease. These maps, called connectomes,...
Mark Gerstein, the Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Computer Science and Statistics and Data Science at Yale, is the 2023 recipient of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB...
The Yale and New Haven communities will commemorate the life and legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. during a series of campus events, including a keynote address by his eldest son, Martin Luther King III.
The campus celebrations, which...
