This month, Yale School of Medicine turns 200 years old. To launch a yearlong celebration of this milestone, the school is inviting the greater New Haven community to join Yale faculty, students, staff and alumni for a bicentennial celebration on its...
This year’s Yale-United Way Campaign, “Give Every Child a Chance,” focuses on decreasing the effects of poverty and promoting early childhood development in the greater New Haven area. One of the agencies helping to achieve that goal is All Our Kin....
During Elon Musk’s recent appearance on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert asked his guest: “Where do you find time for your secret identity as Batman?” The audience burst into laughter.It was just another punch line, but Colbert’s comparison of...
In celebration of the first annual National Fossil Day on Wednesday, Oct. 13, the Yale Peabody Museum is extending its visiting hours for a rare public viewing of Anchisaurus, the most complete dinosaur skeleton ever discovered in Connecticut.The Early...
Yale University’s Nancy Moran, the William H. Fleming Professor of Biology, has been awarded the International Prize for Biology by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science for her work on symbiotic relationships between insects and bacteria that...
In their new book, “Winner-Take-All Politics,” professors Jacob S. Hacker, Yale University, and Paul Pierson, University of California Berkeley, chronicle a systematic redistribution of wealth in the United States over the last 30 years that has greatly...
Yale School of Medicine Professor Amy Justice, M.D., PhD, has been invited to the White House to give a presentation on HIV and aging. Justice’s appearance, as part of a larger meeting on the subject, will take place on October 27, between 8:30 A.M. and...
On Oct. 9, Graeme Rosenberg, a student at Yale School of Medicine, will embark on a 24-hour mountain bike ride known as “24 Hours of Moab,” in memory of a sister he never met. His sister, Brianna, died at the age of 5 from grade 4 glioblastoma, a brain...
Dr. Robert W. McCollum, a noted virologist and former chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale, died Sept. 13 at his home in Etna, New Hampshire.McCollum was a prominent infectious disease researcher who was involved in the...
As classes come to an end each spring, scores of Yale School of Public Health students fan out around the globe to complete their internship project. Usually lasting 10 to 12 weeks, the internship is a defining experience for most students, exposing them...