Yale School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern (right) presents a citation to Dr. Matthew S. Ellman at the Leffell Prize award ceremony. (Photo by Rob Lisak)Not long ago, one of Dr. Matthew Ellman’s long-term patients became very ill with progressive liver...
Clinically available drugs may help combat a potentially lethal form of hydrocephalus now treated mainly by brain surgery, a new Yale-led study has found.
Post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus (PHH), characterized by a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)...
The Silent Protest Parade on Fifth Avenue on July 28, 1917, one of the first major mass demonstrations by African Americans, will be the focus of a special display of four historic photographs at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, on view from...
We may not be able to time a live Tyrannosaurus rex in the 100-yard dash, but scientists say they now have a good sense of the maximum speed for many of the world’s largest animals, past and present.
In a study published July 17 in Nature Ecology and...
Novelist Deji Bryce Olukotun ’00 B.A. began writing fiction as a school kid. He would submit short stories to his teachers that they had not assigned him.
“They’d say, ‘Sure, fine, but you’re not going to get extra credit for it,’” Olukotun said. “I didn’...
Two Yale faculty members, Kate Baldwin and Jeffrey Townsend, were appointed to endowed professorships.
Baldwin, named as the Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science, focuses her research on political accountability, state building,...