Yale’s Laurie Santos, a psychologist who explores the science of well-being in her popular podcast The Happiness Lab, is teaming up with a group of familiar characters who have brought joy to generations of children.
On Sept. 18, Santos will be joined by...
When Claire Dalton first arrived on the Yale campus in the fall of 2018, professional women’s hockey in her Canadian hometown was entering a rough stretch. Later that year, the city’s team, the Toronto Furies, folded along with the rest of the Canadian...
Julia Sanderson arrived at Yale in 2017 from South Dakota as a well-travelled daughter of an Air Force officer, sister to a brother who urged her to study Russian, and an eager student with vague interest in psychology.
Since then, it seems her academic...
Great athletes like Ellis DeJardin have a gift for anticipating events. And in some ways, DeJardin’s four years at Yale played out how she envisioned them after graduating from an all-girls high school in Pasadena, California.
A prep star in volleyball,...
Craig M. Crews, the John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and professor of chemistry, pharmacology, and management at Yale, has received the 2022 Connecticut Medal of Technology, the Connecticut Academy of Science and...
As Yale seeks to expand the diversity and excellence of its faculty, the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (MB&B) has developed a novel way of identifying promising candidates.
Last year, MB&B Chair Enrique M. De La Cruz and...
The Good Life Center — a Yale center dedicated to promoting the mental, physical, and social wellbeing of students — this week opened a new space at the Yale Schwarzman Center (YSC), a move that will ensure that its popular programming is accessible to...
Rohan Angadi’s education at Yale has helped him make a career choice. But he also learned many lessons simply applying to the school.
Angadi is from Clovis, New Mexico, located in an agricultural region in the eastern part of the state, near the Texas...
For the first few years after Megan Sardis ’21 arrived at Yale, she nurtured competing visions of her future.
She decided to major in global affairs, but also took pre-med classes. Perhaps she would become an engineer, or a doctor. She thought about...
In 2018, Yale Professor Laurie Santos introduced a new course, “Psychology and the Good Life,” to address the growing mental health needs of students on campus. It was an immediate success, attracting more than 1,200 undergraduate enrollees that first...