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April 24, 2017
In the early 1980s, Yair Minsky was at a crossroads. After earning his bachelor’s degree from Princeton—where he was a student of the legendary geometer William Paul Thurston...
April 21, 2017
As thousands of scientists around the world prepared for the April 22 March for Science, a trio of top Yale professors shared their views in a Poynter Fellowship symposium on...
April 20, 2017
The gut microbiome is crucial to health, encompassing bacterial communities that possess a hundred times more genes than the human genome. Its complexity has hampered...
April 20, 2017
The saying that bad news travels faster than good news may explain the delayed arrival of the really good news that a total of six Yale affiliates received 2017 Guggenheim...
April 19, 2017
Professor Philip Gorski was recently interviewed in The Atlantic about his new book, American Covenant. 
April 19, 2017
Dr. Sidney Altman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, is the winner of this year’s Lomonosov Gold Medal, for his outstanding contributions...
April 19, 2017
Amy Hungerford, newly named as the Bird White Housum Professor of English, is a literary scholar, teacher, and critic who specializes in 20th- and 21st-century American...