A Yale College senior and a recent alumna are among the 2013 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellows awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.Administered for the U.S. Department of State by the foundation, the fellowships “develop...
A delegation from Yale Cancer Center (YCC) went to Capitol Hill on May 16 to stress the life-saving urgency of continuing to fund National Institutes of Health cancer and other biomedical research during these difficult budget times.Dr. Roy Herbst, chief...
Choukri Ben Mamoun, associate professor of medicine, infectious diseases, and microbial pathogenesis, received a Grand Challenge Exploration Grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Choukri Ben MamounThe 58 recipients of the grants, which support...
The Week Ender appears every Thursday in Yale News and offers highlights of the many activities taking place at the University Friday-Sunday.It’s a great weekend to visit Yale’s museums and campus …Learn about the history of the Earth, its life and its...
There has long been concern that people with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) should not participate in any kind of strenuous sports activity for fear that their devices could fail. But a new Yale study finds that many athletes with ICDs can...