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RACHEL SHIN
Yale Biological and Biomedical Sciences Diversity and Inclusion Collective expands outreach programs

The Yale Biological and Biomedical Sciences Diversity and Inclusion Collective has launched a slate of outreach initiatives to connect students from community colleges with potential […]

October 3, 2021

Image of the inside of a science lab
BEATRIZ HORTA
Yale professors, admin weigh in on biopharma settlements, opioid crisis

Yale experts commented on the opioid crisis and pharmaceutical settlements in interviews with News.

September 23, 2021

A chart showing the rates of opioid deaths in New Haven, Hamden, Connecticut, and the region on a whole.
SADIE BOGRAD
Yale’s Solomon Center launches new palliative care policy database

In partnership with the Center to Advance Palliative Care, the Solomon Center introduced a GPS tool to track legislation on palliative care across the country.

September 21, 2021

CHARLOTTE HUGHES & ANIKA ARORA SETH
Yale Quantum Institute artist-in-residence program welcomes DJ Spooky

Yale Quantum Institute selects multimedia artist Paul D. Miller, known professionally as DJ Spooky, for a yearlong residency to be spent integrating quantum physics with fine arts.

September 15, 2021

SELIN NALBANTOGLU
Joan Steitz donates Wolf Prize award money to RNA Scholars Program

Molecular biophysics and biochemistry professor Joan Steitz decides to use her award money from the Wolf Prize to fund the creation of an RNA Scholars Program within the Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine.

September 8, 2021

ROSE HOROWITCH & BEATRIZ HORTA
In eight-year scheme, former medical school employee charged with stealing millions from Yale

Jamie Petrone-Codrington was charged Friday, prompting an investigation by the FBI and Yale Police Department.

September 7, 2021

MICHAEL PAZ
IRIS, YSPH host community discussion on climate-induced migration

The talk focused on the serious impacts of climate change on forced displacement on an international, national and local scale.

May 3, 2021

VERONICA LEE
Two MCDB professors among 14 Yale faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Recently elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ronald Breaker and Akiko Iwasaki, professors in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, have both made significant contributions to their respective fields of RNA research and immunology.

May 3, 2021

A headshot each of Breaker and Iwasaki side-by-side.
ANJALI MANGLA
PROFILES: Prominent Asian researchers in STEM at Yale

The News conducted interviews with three prominent Asian American researchers and professors at Yale, who have each contributed tremendously to science.

May 2, 2021

MAYA GERADI & ZAPORAH PRICE
Yale SEAS announces diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging committee

In the coming months, the committee, which Miller is leading, will be reviewing individual DEI action plans provided by each department within SEAS in hopes of creating an integrated DEIB plan with action steps over the next five years.

April 28, 2021

NICOLE RODRIGUEZ
Rachael Roettenbacher named 51 Pegasi b Fellow

Rachael Roettenbacher, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, was named a 51 Pegasi b Fellow by the Heising-Simons Foundation at […]

April 20, 2021