Richard Lifton, Sterling Professor of Genetics and chair of the Department of Genetics, has received a $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, created by top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.Richard LiftonLifton was one of eight scientists honored Dec...
Hee Oh joined Yale’s math department this year from Brown. Here she talks about absolute abstraction, the joy of walking — and missing math during her years as a social activist.Hee OhYou received your doctorate in mathematics from Yale in 1997, then...
Scholarly detective work has revealed that an 1858 manuscript, housed at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is the earliest-known prison memoir written by an African American.
Acquired by the Beinecke in 2009, the book-length manuscript,...
The Week Ender appears every Thursday in Yale News and offers highlights of the many activities taking place at the University Friday-Sunday.FridayAttend the final lecture in the Yale University Art Gallery semester-long series “Let This Be a Lesson:...
Three world-renowned biomedical researchers from Yale have been elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). They are:Dr. Laura E. Niklason, professor of anesthesiology and biomedical engineering, and section chief in anesthesiology....