A Sacramento jury awarded a Yale School of Medicine graduate $168 million in damages last week in a lawsuit over 18 complaints of harassment and professional misconduct at Sacramento’s Mercy General Hospital, the Los Angeles Times reported. Ani Chopourian MED ’99 began working as a physician assistant for the cardiovascular surgical team at Mercy General »
Yale is currently on track to meet the goals outlined in its 2010-2013 Sustainability Strategic Plan, according to an annual progress report released Monday by the Office of Sustainability. The report tracks progress made during the 2011 fiscal year, which ended on June 30, 2011. (Click here to read the report in full.) The University »
A group of Yale researchers have put forth a new theory that the Earth’s continents are set to collide over the North Pole in just a few hundred million years, according to a report in the journal “Nature.” Yale geologist Ross Mitchell GRD ’13 and his team based are claiming that the next supercontinent, Amasia, »
Suzanne Alonzo, an associate professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, was granted tenure at a Dec. 15 meeting of the Board of Permanent Officers, Yale College Dean Mary Miller said in an email. In her lab, Alonzo uses mathematical modeling to study sexual selection and reproductive behavior, and the “evolution and ecology of »
Jimmy Lin ’01 is one of 25 winners of the annual TED Fellowship for the organization he founded, Rare Genomics Institute (RGI), TED announced today. Lin started the nonprofit six months ago as a way to help patients with rare diseases pay for expensive genome sequencing and use the results for diagnosis and treatment. To »