EVENTS, FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION
Carcinogen found in hand sanitizer distributed by Yale

On March 26, students, faculty and staff were notified in an email from Yale’s Environmental Health & Safety Department, or EHS, that benzene, a substance […]

Reina Maruyama speaks at STEM and Social Inclusion Event

Reina Maruyama, associate professor of physics and astronomy, spoke at the third event of the STEM and Social Inclusion lecture series on Tuesday. Organized by […]

Organizations, healthcare providers advocate to expand Medicaid eligibility to undocumented immigrants

On March 11, Connecticut’s Human Services Committee held a 12-hour hearing to discuss S.B. 956 — a bill that would make health care coverage available […]

SHEA At Yale hosts discussion on vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 disparities

On Tuesday, STEM and Health Equity Advocates at Yale hosted doctors Julian Watkins and Calvin Sun to speak about why certain populations are more critical […]

Black Pre-Health Students at Yale host ‘Health on the African Continent’ talk

On Feb. 27, Black Pre-Health Students at Yale, or BPHY, invited five healthcare and technology leaders from Africa to engage in conversation about the state […]

School of Medicine announces gift to establish Chênevert Family Brain Tumor Center

A gift from Louis Chênevert, the chairman of the Yale Cancer Center Director’s Advisory Board, his wife and his family will expand clinical care and research […]

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Yale professor Joan Steitz wins Wolf Prize in medicine

On Feb. 9, the Wolf Prize in medicine was awarded to three scientists whose research in mRNA enabled the development of COVID-19 vaccines: Lynne Maquat, […]

STEM and Social Inclusion Series starts with speaker Anjelica Gonzalez

On Tuesday, Anjelica Gonzalez gave a talk as the first speaker in the STEM and Social Inclusion Speaker Series. New Associate Dean for STEM Student […]

‘A living icon’: Professors, students remember Chief of Otolaryngology Clarence T. Sasaki MED ’66

Students and fellow professors at the Yale School of Medicine are mourning the death of Chief of Otolaryngology Clarence Sasaki MED ’66, who died on […]

Yale biomedical engineering graduate student wins PEO Scholar Award

Rebecca Byler GRD ’21, a biomedical engineering graduate student at the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science, received the Philanthropic Educational Organization, or PEO, […]

Yale’s Arielle Baskin-Sommers wins psychology awards

Arielle Baskin-Sommers, professor of psychology and psychiatry, has received two awards for her research — the Association for Psychological Science Janet Taylor Spence Award for […]