When science writer Harriet A. Washington first set out to study toxins in the environment, she was discouraged from focusing on topics of race and socioeconomic status. After all, recent studies have found that 95% of people have been exposed to and...
The Yale School of Medicine’s Valentina Greco and Marina R. Picciotto are among the 11 recipients of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Pioneer Award, which recognizes scientists who have a history of creative research and who show promise in...
A Yale alumnus, graduate student, and undergraduate senior will be honored for their public service with Yale-Jefferson Awards.
Modeled after the national Jefferson Award (known as the “Nobel Prize for public service”), the Yale honor was established in...
Standing in the greenhouse at the Marsh Botanical Gardens one day in November, surrounded by sundews, cacti, and ponytail palms, Wade H. Elmer turned his attention to a vegetable: asparagus, his topic for the evening.
As the Connecticut Agricultural ...
You might imagine a science lab looking a bit sterile and impersonal — little sunlight, masked figures in white coats pouring neon-colored liquid into beakers, all business. You might not expect to hear a science lab referred to as familial, where...
On Jan. 23, a small crowd gathered at 100 Church St. South to celebrate the launch of the Alderfer Scholars Program, named in honor of Clay Alderfer ’62 B.A., ’66 Ph.D., a psychologist and former Yale faculty member who devoted his life to studying...
What does it mean to teach during a global pandemic? Even beyond the shift to Zoom classrooms and virtual lectures, it has for many Yale professors meant rethinking how a course can serve as a shared intellectual pursuit and also a chance for finding much...
Rachel Diaz, a graduating senior in Pauli Murray, came to Yale as a transfer student from a community college in Miami two and a half years ago.
“If there was ever a face for imposter syndrome,” said Diaz, a first-generation college student, “I was...