After 88 days alone with the sounds of the ocean, meals of only freeze-dried rations or energy bars, and wind that blew him every which way but toward land, Paul Ridley is home. On March 29, Ridley completed a 3,500-mile solo row across the Atlantic Ocean...
A young black man with the grades and the desire to attend the Yale School of Medicine in the 1800s faced seemingly insurmountable odds, but the power of relationships is what made it possible for Courtlandt Van Rensselaer Creed to beat those odds, said...
Kevin Koo and other medical students filed into the Yale Center for British Art recently to spend the afternoon looking at paintings.While future physicians with heavy course loads at the Yale School of Medicine usually don’t have the time to ponder art,...
The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded $125,000 to Yale biomedical engineers Mark Saltzman and Michael Levene for research on the obstacles to drug delivery in regions of the brain affected by Parkinson’s disease. Saltzman and Levene will develop new...
Building on the success of last year’s program with the China State Food and Drug Administration (sFDA), a second sFDA delegation visited the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) April 2-6 for training in the regulation of medical devices. Robert Makuch,...
Dr. Pietro De Camilli of the Yale School of Medicine has received a $100,000 Distinguished Investigator Award from NARSAD, the leading charity advancing treatment for mental health disorders.The one-year grant to De Camilli, the Eugene Higgins Professor...
Dr. Thomas M. Gill, newly named as the Humana Foundation Professor of Geriatric Medicine, is a leading authority on the epidemiology and prevention of disability among older persons.The co-director of the Yale Program on Aging and of the Claude D. Pepper...
Holly Powell Kennedy, the inaugural Helen Varney Professor of Midwifery at Yale University School of Nursing (YSN), is helping to further understanding of midwifery practice today.Kennedy, who will join the YSN faculty on July 1, is currently an associate...
Michael C. Crair, the inaugural William Ziegler III Associate Professor of Vision Research, studies the development, structure and function of the visual system.He is exploring how genes and the environment interact to guide the development of neuronal...
Yale faculty member Susan Kaech is one of 50 researchers nationwide named as Early Career Scientist by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).This award was created by the HHMI to fuel the creative energy of young scientists, who are feeling the...