The Nakanishi Prize is awarded to two graduating seniors who, while maintaining high academic achievement, have provided exemplary leadership in enhancing race or ethnic relations at Yale College. This year’s prize is awarded to Austin Li Long of Calhoun...
The Warren Memorial High Scholarship Prize for the Senior majoring in the humanities who ranks highest in scholarship is awarded this year to Spencer Jacob Weinreich of Pierson College.Spencer Jacob WeinreichSpencer Weinreich has distinguished himself...
Using an instrument so sensitive it can fold and unfold a single protein, Yale School of Medicine researchers have manipulated a protein essential for HIV to invade cells. The “optical tweezers” allowed researchers to apply tiny forces to a single...
The James Andrew Haas Prize is awarded annually to “that member of the Senior Class in Yale College whose breadth of intellectual achievement, strength of character, and fundamental humanity shall be adjudged by the faculty to have provided leadership for...
John D. MacMicking, a tenured associate professor of microbial pathogenesis at Yale, is one of 26 scientists named May 19 as investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).John D. MacMickingThe HHMI grants to scientists from 19 institutions...
The Alpheus Henry Snow Prize is awarded to that “senior who, through the combination of intellectual achievement, character, and personality, shall be adjudged by the faculty to have done the most for Yale by inspiring in his or her classmates an...
The way the brain responds while sipping a delicious milkshake can predict who will gain weight and who will not — but only if the individual has just eaten and has a certain genetic profile, a new brain imaging study by Yale School of Medicine...