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A Yale-led study shows that the senses stimulate a region of the brain that controls consciousness — a finding that might inform treatment for disorders related to attention, arousal, and more.
Most vaccines — and boosters — are injected directly into muscle tissue, usually in the upper arm, to kickstart the body’s immune system in the fight against disease. But for respiratory diseases like ...
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a single Zoom call sent Bez Mbeng on a path to Yale and Ivy League glory. Mbeng, who was a standout guard for Our Lady of Good Counsel high school in Olney, ...
Here, Yale News spotlights a few of the exceptional members of the Yale College Class of 2025, a group whose accomplishments and contributions have strengthened the Yale campus and the world beyond.
The Gruber Foundation today recognized four scientists who have made significant contributions to the fields of cosmology, genetics, and neuroscience. Recipients of the Gruber International Prize ...
On Saturday, May 3, the Harkness Memorial Auditorium at the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) hosted a joyful celebration of the latest cohort of New Haven Public School students to complete the Yale ...
Mar Short, a Martian jazz-house artist, was born and raised in lava tubes at the bottom of the Valles Marineris, a 2,500-mile-long canyon that stretches along the Red Planet’s equator. Short’s ...
Keeley Brooks worried that she’d made a terrible mistake during her first few weeks at Yale. A violinist since the age of five, she’d long dreamed of attending a music conservatory, and had been ...
Laurie Santos first noticed something amiss with parents a few years ago. “I saw how anxious and worried parents were when connecting with their kids at Yale,” said Santos, the Chandrika and Ranjan ...
From an early age, Maxwell Brown has known his place in the circle of life. “My parents put me into different summer camps and training programs for musical theater,” Brown said. “I confess that I was ...
In the early 1950s, as Nigeria approached independence from Great Britain, a vibrant literary culture developed in the vast and lively market of Onitsha, a city on the eastern bank of the Niger River.