Anya Geist
Staff Reporter
Anya Geist covers Science and Society for the News and is a staff writer for the WKND. Originally from Worcester, MA, she is a first-year in Silliman College and studies history.
Author Archive
On Ambition and its Pitfalls

As a little kid, I dreamt up intricate stories about families and friends and siblings, all loosely inspired by my own friends and cousins. These made-up kids lived in giant blue mansions with 22 floors and dumbwaiters that served as alternative methods of transportation — I barely knew what a dumbwaiter, a pulley to carry food from one floor to another, was. Others had cute little cottages and grew their own fruits and vegetables, nestled in the midst of the vast Maine forest — why Maine, I have no idea — or lived instead in some Star Wars inspired world, with space travel, fancy technology and intergalactic schools.

Yale researchers rethink public health data

Yale faculty and students are developing tools to help states respond faster to emerging health threats.

A summer long-gone

West Side Barbecue smells, shockingly, like barbecue. A staple of my childhood, I always ordered kids’ sliders there — one with cheese and out without, […]

Yale faculty support national coalition aiming to defend public health from political threats

Defend Public Health is mobilizing thousands of scientists, clinicians and students to push back against political threats to evidence-based health policy.

Passover pop-up exhibit at Sterling teaches visitors about Jewish tradition

The exhibit featured books telling the Passover story from many centuries and regions of the world, encouraging visitors to engage with diverse methods of storytelling and ritual.

What is perfection?

The perfection described in Vincenzo Latronico’s “Perfection” sounded pretty perfect to me. After reading a review of it in The New Yorker, I grabbed the […]

Childhood books, reminders of home

Over spring break, sick with a sinus infection, I scanned the bookshelf in my bedroom at home, searching for something to read. Something calming, relaxing, […]

Ariane de Gennaro
Climate panelists seek to foster care and communication about the environment

The panelists spoke about the relevance of climate change in a talk as part of the Environmental Film Festival.

Searching for Jewish community

Growing up, every Saturday morning I went to Hebrew school Shabbat services. Students clustered with their five or ten other classmates, leaving gaps in the […]

James Kimmel Jr., Yale psychiatrist, to publish “The Science of Revenge”

James Kimmel Jr., a lecturer in psychiatry at the School of Medicine, is set to publish a new book on May 27.

The multitudes of spring

The scent of spring is jarring. I smell it in the breeze of the first 50-degree day last week — it connotes bright buds popping […]

Aileen Santiago