A new study by Yale researchers shows that considering hearing and mobility improves doctors’ ability to accurately predict six-month mortality for older heart attack patients.
There has been a growing sense that functional impairments — of hearing and...
When Demi Knight Clark decided to launch She Built This City, a social venture that aims to create pathways for women into manufacturing and construction careers, the cause was personal.
She’d been working for 20 years in executive leadership roles in...
Discoveries happen every day in Yale’s research labs, some of which have the potential to save lives and revolutionize medicine: A new way to attack cancerous tumors. A new means to treat drug-resistant infections. A new method for targeting fungal...
Using sophisticated screening across animal species, researchers at Yale have created a cellular blueprint of the human lung that will make it easier to understand the design principles behind lung function and disease — and to bioengineer new lungs.
The...
It’s been several weeks since Kim Hershman ’88 B.A., ’92 J.D. first learned the story of Shawn Pleasants ’89 B.A., a Yale alumnus living homeless on the streets of Los Angeles, and took action.
At first, Hershman was moved to tears by the story on CNN...
Yale Athletics Director Vicky Chun said leading a panel with Lisa Brummel ’81 B.A. and Virginia “Ginny” Gilder ’80 B.A. — co-owners of the WNBA team the Seattle Storm — was like “being a chocolate lover and getting to meet Willy Wonka,” she told the...
President Peter Salovey ’86 Ph.D. opened the Nov. 21 Dean’s Panel on Leadership at the Alumni Assembly in Sprague Hall by acknowledging Yale’s role in cultivating leaders and stating that such leaders have never been more necessary. “The world needs...
While she was growing up in Los Angeles, Marina Marmolejo ’19 M.P.H. says the problem of homelessness seemed too big to address in a meaningful way. But when she came to New Haven to attend Yale School of Public Health and began working with local...
A Yale-led collaborative study boosts scientific understanding of how the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) progresses, providing a roadmap for researchers to discover new treatment targets for the disease.
The study, led by Naftali...
A study by researchers at Yale has uncovered why belly fat surrounding organs increases as people age, a finding that could offer new treatment possibilities for improving metabolic health, thereby reducing the likelihood for diseases like diabetes and...