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May 20, 2021
In their nominations for this year’s Yale College Teaching Prizes, undergraduate students praised the honored faculty members for not only shining in the classroom but also...
April 10, 2021
Over the past year, ordinary medical research nearly ground to a halt as researchers focused on coronavirus vaccine trials and treatments. Single-mindedness paid off....
March 22, 2021
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 of the vaccine in...
March 16, 2021
Producer: Karen M. Sughrue Editor: Heru Muharrar Released: March 16, 2021 Vaccines began to bring an end to polio in 1955, but – as with the Covid vaccine today – Black...
February 3, 2021
While doing research as an undergraduate in Australia during the late-1970s, Naomi Rogers stumbled upon some dusty volumes of the British Medical Journal in her university’s...
November 13, 2020
On Monday, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced early data that showed a vaccine it has been developing in partnership with the German drug manufacturer BioNTech was...
September 9, 2020
Ashanti Shih, PhD ‘19 awarded the The W. Turrentine Jackson (Dissertation) Award for her dissertation  “Invasive Ecologies: Science and Settler Colonialism in Twentieth-...