Rachel Gilmore
Pre-med requirements could be revised

Prerequisite courses for pre-meds could soon become a thing of the past. The American Association of Medical Colleges, which represents the nation’s 131 accredited medical […]

Ads promote H1N1 plan

With the number of swine flu cases rising, New Haven officials are using advertisements to inform the public. At a press conference Friday, city officials […]

Students won’t get first vaccines

Yale University Health Services received its first shipment of swine flu vaccine last week, but none of these vaccines are for the average student, YUHS […]

Smilow boosts research, care

With the opening of the Smilow Cancer Hospital, director Thomas Lynch ’82 MED ’86 said he hopes Yale-New Haven Hospital will become the Yale Law […]

Yale chemist wins Nobel

Biology professor Joan Steitz was understandably groggy when she was awoken by a ringing telephone at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. When Steitz answered, a refined female […]

RNA discovery

In the three decades since RNA was first sequenced in 1975, scientists have been intrigued by how the genome relates to life, studying has been […]

Officials respond to opioid death spike in Conn.

Death from opioid overdose is on the rise in Connecticut — and may soon surpass automobile accidents as the leading cause of accidental death, according […]

Robinson links art, literature

Across the street from the Yale University Art Gallery’s “Picasso and the Allure of Language,” an exhibit about Pablo Picasso’s relationship to 20th century literature, […]

Facility to allow greater climate research

Renovation on retired geology and geophysics professor Robert Berner’s lab — which will transform the vacant space into a state-of-the-art facility, the first of its […]

School girls try science

Enthusiastic preteen girls descended on Sloane Physics Laboratory on Saturday. Middle-school girls from in and around New Haven met all day for the second session […]

Scientists examine sex changes

While a sex change may entail complicated reconstructive surgery in humans, it takes species like clownfish little effort. Erem Kazancioglu, a Ph.D. student, and his […]