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ROSE HOROWITCH
Yale professors and alumni demand University prioritize public health

As the world continues to confront the worst public health disaster in recent history, a group of Yale faculty and alumni have called on the […]

November 18, 2020

MADISON HAHAMY & MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Yale not among schools considering SalivaDirect, which it developed, for COVID testing

SalivaDirect –– a saliva-based COVID test that was developed at Yale –– is being explored as a testing tool by schools across the United States. […]

November 18, 2020

ANJALI MANGLA
UNICEF director talks child, adolescent mental health during pandemic

On Nov. 11, the Yale Institute of Global Health’s Global Health Conversation Series hosted Henrietta Fore, the executive director of UNICEF, in an event that […]

November 18, 2020

SYDNEY GRAY
Faculty discuss what the United States can learn from African nations’ COVID-19 response

In the midst of a dangerous third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Yale professors are discussing what African nations can teach the United States about […]

November 16, 2020

KAITLIN FLORES
Yale scientists track how walking fruit flies navigate to odor sources

A new Yale study has discovered how the walking fruit fly interacts with complex smells.  The research paper was published on Nov. 3 and was […]

November 16, 2020

ERIN BAILEY
Yale researchers’ model for treating opioid use disorder gains widespread use

A treatment for opioid use disorder, developed by Yale doctors, which happens to be just like Online suboxone from recovery delivered, is being adopted in […]

November 16, 2020

NICOLE RODRIGUEZ
Yale astronomers venture on quest for Planet Nine

Yale astronomers are joining the scientific effort to search for Planet Nine — a hypothesized planet in the outskirts of the solar system — despite […]

November 16, 2020

SYDNEY GRAY
Examining Yale’s pandemic response compared to other Ivies

The News compiled COVID-19 data from all eight Ivy League schools and the University of Illinois — an example of a school that successfully managed a […]

November 13, 2020

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO & AMRE PROMAN
‘It’s a source of comfort’: Off-campus students discuss COVID-19 testing

For most of the semester, off-campus students had the highest proportion of coronavirus cases among groups within the Yale community, according to the University’s COVID-19 […]

November 13, 2020

BEATRIZ HORTA & MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Pfizer vaccine, which early data found to be 90 percent effective, enrolled patients in Yale trials

On Monday, Nov. 9, Pfizer and BioNTech — the pharmaceutical companies currently leading a phase 3 coronavirus vaccine trial, in which efficacy and safety tests […]

November 13, 2020

JONATHAN JALBERT
Yeast study sheds light on epigenetic mechanisms’ role in evolution

A new Yale study on yeast shows how nongenetic factors are involved in real-time evolution. In the study, published in the journal Cell Reports on […]

November 12, 2020