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  • Revenge of the Brontosaurus

    “The Brontosaurus is baaack,” Professor Jacques Gauthier proclaims. And Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History has it. You might remember... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | April 8 2015 01:55pm

  • Love is in the air

    Scientists may not have found the formula for a love potion just yet, but at Yale’s Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID), located... Read on
    Eric Stern ’15 | February 13 2015 04:37pm

  • Frustrations aired at med school town hall

    There was an elephant in Harkness Auditorium during Thursday’s School of Medicine town hall on diversity and gender equity.President Peter Salovey... Read on
    Jane Darby Menton ’15 | February 6 2015 03:18pm | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Harry Potter and the Medical Librarians

    Harry Potter needed thousands of owl-delivered letters and a visit from the half-giant Hagrid to make it to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But... Read on
    Eric Stern ’15 | January 21 2015 02:45pm

  • Student in hospital tests negative for Ebola (Updated)

    UPDATED, 6:06 pm. A doctoral student at the School of Public Health who recently returned from researching Ebola in Liberia tested negative for the... Read on
    Jane Darby Menton ’15 | October 16 2014 02:20pm

  • The dark side of empathy

    Who could be “Against Empathy”? Paul Bloom, that’s who. In a Boston Review essay by that title, the Yale psychology professor... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | August 26 2014 06:24pm | Ico comments 1 comment

  • New drug reverses Alzheimer’s effects in mice

    Yale scientists have reversed the effects of Alzheimer’s disease in mice with a new drug. “A single dose of the drug results in improved... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | August 12 2014 05:06pm

  • Obesity, diabetes, and the brain

    It’s an exaggeration to say that diabetes and obesity are all in your head. But a Yale research team has made two new discoveries about the... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | August 5 2014 03:30pm

  • Solving for the unobservable

    Though you probably didn't notice, Dan Spielman ’92, the Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Yale, quietly changed... Read on
    Colin Groundwater | July 9 2014 03:30pm

  • Hair today, bald recently

    In eight months, a young man from Connecticut went from completely bald to thickly thatched, thanks to a breakthrough treatment by a Yale dermatologist.... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | June 24 2014 05:07pm

  • Do FDA labels gum up the works for stop-smoking products?

    Smoking kills. So does smokeless tobacco, which Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn blamed for the oral cancer that ended his life this week, at age... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | June 18 2014 05:34pm | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Lab-made flu viruses not worth the risk, researchers say

    Citing the Nuremburg Code for ethical research—developed in the wake of Nazi medical experiments—epidemiologists from Yale and Harvard are... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | May 27 2014 11:26am

  • Toad hunting with the Peabody’s new director

    On Thursday, President Salovey tapped ecologist Dave Skelly, a veteran professor at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, to be the next... Read on
    Bruce Fellman | May 5 2014 12:14pm

  • What would Joseph wear in the lab?

    Yale's Environmental Health and Safety department is sponsoring an "Amazing Technicolor Lab Coat" contest: members of the Yale community are invited to... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | April 11 2014 11:45am

  • Poisoned lab fish lead to lawsuit

    After a lab colleague poisoned Magdalena Koziol's zebra fish, her supervisor further sabotaged her career, driving her away from Yale, Koziol claims in a... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | March 27 2014 03:53pm

  • You have to break some eggs

    Okay, drop whatever you're doing. If you run to the Peabody Museum right now, you can see a mob of emus (that's really the collective noun: mob) forming... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 13 2014 02:28pm

  • Yale students to young people: get covered

    With just 20 days left before the federal deadline for uninsured people to sign up for health insurance, it may take more than President Obama deadpanning... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 12 2014 03:38pm

  • Author-surgeon Sherwin Nuland ’55MD dies at 83

    Sherwin Nuland ’55MD, the surgeon-turned-author who was a clinical professor of surgery at Yale for nearly 30 years, died on Monday at his home in Hamden at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 5 2014 03:15pm

  • Alison Jolly ’62PhD dies at 76; was world expert on lemurs

    "A chance invitation to babysit laboratory lemurs at Yale University in 1959, where she was a graduate student immersed in the study of sea sponges... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | February 19 2014 04:24pm