While serving at the forefront of the civil and women’s rights movements, Pauli Murray ’65 J.S.D., ’79 Hon. D.Div. endured many defeats and setbacks. But she maintained hope and lived to see — as she once put it — her “lost causes found.”
Murray’s legacy...
When you’re searching the skies for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it’s not a bad idea to be aware of cosmic flares.
In a sense, that is the approach Andy Nilipour, a Yale undergraduate who finished his junior year this spring, took in his first...
Black M.D.-Ph.D. students are 83% more likely than white students to leave medical school and 50% more likely to graduate with the M.D. only, according to a new Yale-led study. The findings, researchers say, have implications for the diversity and...
Providing poor women, including Syrian refugees, in Amman, Jordan, with volunteer opportunities helps them diversify their social networks, enhances their sense of empowerment and wellbeing, and potentially encourages social change, according to a new...
Asked if she would consider herself a farmer, Jasmine Jones ’26 pondered for a moment.
“I would say I’m definitely doing all the things a farmer does,” Jones said with some reluctance, although she’d just spent a steamy July morning manually operating a...
In a promising form of immunotherapy known as CAR T-cell (chimeric antigen receptor) therapy, the patient’s T cells are engineered to better recognize and attack antigens on the surface of cancer cells. In treatments currently approved for use in battling...
A genetic analysis suggests that the servants and retainers who lived, worked, and died at Machu Picchu, the renowned 15th century Inca palace in southern Peru, were a diverse community representing many different ethnic groups from across the Inca empire...