Hannah Steffke ’20 B.S. was still new at Yale when she took organic chemistry. Something clicked.
“I really liked that form of problem solving,” said the senior from Beal City, Michigan. “I liked that way of thinking.”
Many chemistry courses later,...
The Whiffenpoofs, the country’s oldest a cappella group, celebrated its 110th anniversary this past October at Battell Chapel, with many alumni in attendance. Now, when the singers would have been preparing for their world tour, they are instead self-...
When the coronavirus pandemic derailed the spring semester, the members of Whim ’n Rhythm — Yale’s all-senior, soprano-alto a cappella group — were in the process of recording their annual studio album, a musical capsule of their year together. Now, all...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a daily onslaught of unsettling numbers and charts related to infection numbers, hospitalizations, and death rates. But Mark Abraham ’04 B.A., executive director of DataHaven, said sometimes focusing on positive...
Two Yale emergency physicians have designed a tool to help clinicians better identify COVID-19 patients whose condition is likely to worsen rapidly and who will need intensive care within 24 hours.
The tool, which uses predictive modeling, is called the ...
The coronavirus pandemic has, in the words of Dr. F. Perry Wilson, a.k.a. “The Methods Man,” ushered in a “perfect storm of scientific misinformation.”
Scientists are releasing new studies at an unprecedented pace, the public is clamoring for more...
A team of Yale researchers has developed a new app, Hunala, that aims to be the “Waze for coronavirus.”
Led by Sterling Professor Nicholas Christakis, a physician and social networks expert, with colleagues in the Yale School of Engineering and Applied...
A site co-founded by two Yale researchers for sharing preliminary medical research called medRxiv (pronounced “med archive”) has become a leading source of scientific discovery related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Known as a preprint server — an online...
A highly unusual school semester has ended, and the coming summer will be unlike any in memory. Families are forgoing backyard barbeques and block parties; cities and towns have cancelled carnivals and Fourth of July festivities. Travel carries extra...