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April 22, 2022
“Think about the last time you got a paper cut,” Yale graduate student Olivia Justynski told her audience during a Loria Hall presentation that was also livestreamed on Zoom...
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April 14, 2022
A medical student who studied by candlelight while living with the violence of civil war in his home country of Syria and a law student who spent her early years living in...
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April 6, 2022
in memoriam Sidney Altman, Sterling professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) at Yale who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989 for discovering the...
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April 1, 2022
More than 60% of all drugs, including antibiotics and cancer treatments, are derived from natural products in the form of small molecules encoded by metabolic genes. These...
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March 30, 2022
March is Women’s History Month, a time dedicated to observing and celebrating the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Among these...
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March 29, 2022
As Chemistry’s longest-serving staff member, Kelly Kellerman has dug her hands into almost every aspect of administration. She’s worked in academics, finance,...
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March 15, 2022
Victor Batista, one of the world’s most distinguished theoretical chemists, has been appointed the John Gamble Kirkwood Professor of Chemistry, effective immediately. Batista...
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February 28, 2022
Prospective students joined the Yale Chemistry community on Feb. 10 –  11 to learn about the research program and campus life at the much anticipated ‘Visiting Days’ event....
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February 28, 2022
Esther A.H. Hopkins ‘67 Ph.D., whose passion for science, advocacy for environmental justice, and commitment to her community made her an admired chemist, environmental...