EVENTS, FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION
GIRI VISWANATHAN
Search for YSPH Dean enters final stages

The School of Public Health’s search for a new dean remains shrouded in secrecy, but with a cohort of finalists selected, the process is likely nearing its end.

January 19, 2023

GIRI VISWANATHAN
Mark Lemmon announced as new chair of pharmacology

Mark Lemmon, professor of pharmacology and co-director of the Yale Cancer Biology Institute, was named as the chair of pharmacology at the Yale School of Medicine

December 9, 2022

KAYLA YUP
Nine-year-old girl tours Yale labs after neighbor reported her to police for spraying lanternflies

A neighbor’s call to the police on a young Black girl for spraying lanternflies sparked discourse around the dangers of adultifying Black children and weaponizing the police. A Yale tour led by Black female scientists sought to support the little girl in her love for science.

November 29, 2022

ADNAN BSEISU
Cambridge’s Scott Mandelbrote lectures on lost Newton book

At a Wednesday lecture at the Beinecke Library, historian Scott Mandelbrote discussed his recent work in authenticating a lost Isaac Newton notebook.

November 18, 2022

IFFAT ZARIF
Yale postdoc wins Romer Prize for 3D modeling of extinct animal joints

Armita Manafzadeh’s unique data-driven approach to analyze the joints of dinosaurs and other extinct animals at the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies earned recognition from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

November 16, 2022

WALKER BARGMANN
Yale professor receives $2 million to bridge genomics representation gap

Serena Tucci, assistant professor of anthropology and principal investigator of the Human Evolutionary Genomics Lab at Yale University, plans to use her $2 million grant from the NIH to investigate the genome of indigenous populations of Oceania.

November 14, 2022

BRIAN ZHANG
Cox lawyer Ben Crump speaks at School of Medicine event alongside other activists

The Change Talks series introduces students to key figures in the modern civil rights movement while giving them the opportunity to jumpstart their own activism stories.

November 8, 2022

SELIN NALBANTOGLU
Yale hosts interdisciplinary Clean Energy Conference

Speakers from all over the United States came to New Haven last weekend to discuss the latest innovations in the clean energy sector.

November 6, 2022

RICHARD CHEN
Yale-Boehringer Ingelheim program accepts four new students

Yale Center for Biomedical Data Science program in collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim enters second year of work.

November 6, 2022

MARIA KOROLIK
A brief guide to undergraduate STEM research at Yale

Everything you need to know about finding and thriving in a research lab both in and out of Yale.

November 3, 2022

SAMANTHA LIU
Yale professor receives $1.5 million for high-risk virology research

Allison Didychuk’s work studying the packaging mechanisms of herpesviruses earned her the DP2 New Innovator’s Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

November 3, 2022