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...
Eve Ensler, the Tony Award-winning playwright of “The Vagina Monologues,” says humans have a superpower so great it can conjure the dead and burn away cancer: It’s our imagination.
Ten years ago, when she was diagnosed with stage-three uterine cancer,...
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...
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...