Since last summer, Ozgen Felek has passed many illuminating hours in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s reading room poring over Yale’s collections of Ottoman Turkish manuscripts, which are uncatalogued and little studied.
The 568...
The progression of cancer has been studied extensively, and the key steps in this journey have been well mapped, at least in some solid tumors: Lesions to genes that confer risk of cancer accumulate and alter normal cell behaviors, giving rise, scientists...
“I had this sense of justice,” said acclaimed artist, writer, and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud ’60 M.F.A. in a recent talk on campus. “I had this sense of what was right, and what was just, and what was proper: to expect other people to hear me, to expect...
Yale’s Nenad Sestan M.D., Ph.D., the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience, has been named as one of Nature’s 10 scientists who made a difference in 2019, the journal announced Dec. 17.
The journal recognized the work of Sestan and his team...
Patients with private health insurance face a serious risk of being treated and billed by an out-of-network doctor when they receive care at in-network hospitals, according to a new study by Yale researchers. Addressing the issue could reduce health...
“Fun Home,” the School of Drama’s current production, isn’t a straightforward musical. It tells the twin stories of a daughter and her father, who are both grappling with being gay in rural Pennsylvania in the 1970s. It deals with sex and suicide. But...
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s Great Hall — home to its beloved dinosaur exhibits — will close on Dec. 31 in preparation for the museum’s upcoming major renovation.
The museum hosted a community celebration on Saturday, Dec. 7, to bid...
In the last decade, scientists discovered that blocking a key regulator of the immune system helped unleash the body’s natural defenses against several forms of cancer, opening up a new era of cancer immunotherapy. Now Yale scientists have essentially...
For as many as one in three people, life events or situations that pose no real danger can spark a disabling fear, a hallmark of anxiety and stress-related disorders. Cognitive behavioral therapy and antidepressants help about half the people suffering...
While a crewmember on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit indulged his passion for photography.
Between 13-hour shifts performing maintenance work on the station and conducting experiments, Pettit pointed cameras out the station’...
