Students
Songs and dance to benefit minority high school students
Medical students strutted their stuff in January at the Seventh Annual Grannum Jamboree, showing once again that they are as familiar with a guitar or dance steps as they are with the 206 bones in the human body. The jamboree’s selections ranged from songs by the Yale Gospel Choir to a humorous song about life in New...
I Know What You Did Last Semester
Early in the first act of I Know What You Did Last Semester, the Class of 2002’s second-year show, a heckler in the...
2000 residency placements for Yale medical students
The Office of Student Affairs has provided the following list, which outlines the results of the National Resident...
From Other Issues
Winter 2012
Students report on summer research projects
Seventeen Yale students participated last summer in what one faculty member called a “life-changing” and “amazing”...
Winter 2012
Surgeon general speaks at PA Commencement
Early in her career Regina B. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., was the only doctor in Bayou La Batre, a rural Alabama town where...
Winter 2012
Auction raises money for New Haven charities
The 19th Annual Hunger & Homelessness Auction raised more than $30,000 for New Haven charities in November. Proceeds...
Winter 2012
After five years, HAVEN clinic still thriving
The staff meeting starts at 8:30 on Saturday mornings. Thirty or more students in medicine, nursing, public health, the...
Spring 2012
Student health project offers blood screening
On a cold Saturday morning in January, dozens of people gathered in the basement of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul...
Spring 2012
Salons bring faculty and students together for wine, books, and conversation
A few days after their return from winter recess, 10 second-year students piled onto a bus in front of the Sterling...
Winter 2011
Hunger and Homelessness auction raises $25,000
Offerings that included California wines, fencing lessons, movie tickets, and an incomparable evening of sports or...
Winter 2011
Learning to manage the stress and trauma of medicine
Medical professionals must be cool, calm, and careful in emergency situations, managing each incident and then moving...
Spring 2011
The 2011 Match
ARIZONASt. Joseph's Hospital (Barrow Neurological Institute), Phoenix Ernest Wright, NeurosurgeryCALIFORNIAUCLA Medical...
Spring 2011
Shelf exams are the stuff of dreams
Anyone who mastered the convoluted plot of the Leonardo DiCaprio movie Inception would have had little trouble...
Spring 2011
From a TV series, a physician offers a vision of “what makes us caregivers”
The fictional physician and title character in the television seriesHouse is no one’s idea of a role model. “He’s...
Autumn 2011
School of Medicine welcomes Class of 2015
The 101 members of the Yale School of Medicine’s Class of 2015 looked elated but also a little incredulous as they...
Autumn 2011
White Coat ceremony kicks off Bicentennial
The annual White Coat ceremony in Harkness Auditorium in August was the inaugural event of the School of Medicine’s...
Autumn 2011
Incoming medical student first to receive new scholarship
When Jeffrey Low was a seventh-grader in his hometown of San Francisco, he went on a service project to a community...
Autumn 2011
On selfishness in the service of others
Mother Nature provided the rain, but the proud teachers, family members, and friends supplied the lightning—in the form...
Autumn 2011
“One of our own” returns to Yale as Farr lecturer on Student Research Day
George Lister, M.D. ’73, HS ’75, spent more than 20 years on the Yale faculty as a professor of pediatrics and...
Winter 2010
Class of 2012 presents “Love in the Time of the Swine Flu”
The second-year class affectionately mocked faculty while carrying on a 61-year-old tradition.In a two-act play that...
Winter 2010
First-year class embraces study of medicine
Harkness Auditorium was aflutter with nervous excitement on August 25 as the Class of 2013—or “2014 or somewhere in...
Winter 2010
Student loses long struggle with leukemia despite search for bone marrow match
Natasha Collins, a member of the Class of 2012 whose classmates rallied to find her a bone marrow donor, died on August...
Spring 2010
Match day cause for joy as 110 Yale Students find residencies
As in past years, Yale medical students found matches at top-ranked residency programs around the country.
Spring 2010
New PA grads face a bright future
“It’s a great time to be a physician associate,” said Robert S. Galvin, M.D., in a Commencement address given in...
Spring 2010
Hunger and Homelessness Auction raises funds for local organizations
Tarot card readings, a vintage Epiphone guitar, a chance to challenge the dean’s softball team, and an afternoon of...
Autumn 2010
A call to be not just doctors but healers
As a hazy morning became a sunny afternoon on May 24, the 110 graduates of the Class of 2010 became doctors. But...
Autumn 2010
An alumnus describes his 40-year odyssey in medicine to students beginning theirs
The career of Lewis Landsberg, M.D. ’64, HS ’70, took him from Yale to the NIH, back to Yale, then to the banks of the...
Winter 2009
Downs fellows cover the world
For the first half of his 10-week stay in Eldoret, Kenya, last summer, Timothy Mercer just hung out. “I had to earn...
Winter 2009
Auction raises $32,000 for New Haven-area charities for the hungry and homeless
“Girls’ Night Out: Join Drs. Bia, Angoff, Vining and Hansson to enjoy a dinner and the sharing of gossip and wisdom. No...
Winter 2009
At annual White Coat Ceremony, students kick off their medical careers
The 100 students in the Class of 2012 include 51 women and 49 men, 24 graduates of Harvard and Yale, 24 members of...
Spring 2009
Ending one chapter, beginning another
The Harkness ballroom erupted with cheers on March 19, as members of the Class of 2009 rushed in to learn where they...
Spring 2009
A day to reflect on becoming a doctor
The Class of 2009 enters medicine at a time of change amidst an ongoing debate over health care.
Spring 2009
Carrying on a tradition
Following months of research and analysis, students present their theses at Student Research Day.
Spring 2009
At Commencement, the PA Program’s history
Alfred Sadler, the first director of Yale’s Physician Associate Program, described its early days in the 1970s.When...
Spring 2009
U.S. economy in free fall! Yale endowment down! Med school scrambles for $$$!
Carrying on a 60-year-old tradition, the second-year class mocked its teachers and mentors with irreverence and...
Autumn 2009
Downs fellows around the globe
Last summer, at the end of her first year at the school of public health, Leah Hoffman traveled to the Vietnamese port...
Autumn 2009
A new class embraces the study of medicine
The 99 members of the Class of 2013 donned white coats in August as a symbol of their entry into medicine.
Autumn 2009
Raising money for the hungry and homeless
Tarot card readings, a vintage Epiphone guitar, a chance to challenge the dean’s softball team, and an afternoon of...
Autumn 2009
A day to reflect on becoming a doctor
For the 96 members of the Class of 2009, Commencement was a day of sunshine and serious reflection on the nature and...
Winter 2008
Yale system remains a strong draw
Kwame and Kofi Atsina went to different colleges and have different interests, but when it came time to apply to...
Winter 2008
Response to patients matters most, neurosurgeon tells Physician Associate grads
Twenty years ago Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, M.D., was a 19-year-old illegal immigrant who spoke no English and picked...
Spring 2008
Of gangstas, capos and accreditation inspectas
Following a tradition dating back to 1949, the Class of 2010 presented The Unaccreditables, its second-year show, in...
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Spring 2008
Auction raises $30,000 to benefit the homeless and hungry in New Haven
For 24 hours one day in November, first-year medical student Ali Batouli was at the beck and call of classmate Caitlin...
Autumn 2008
Celebration, loss and an exhortation to dream
Commencement was a day of mixed emotions for graduates in the Class of 2008. As they celebrated their own passage from...
Autumn 2008
Public health grads urged to develop skills beyond science as leaders and advocates
The 108 graduates of the School of Public Health’s Class of 2008 have their work cut out for them: defeating the AIDS...
Autumn 2008
PA students don white coats in new ceremony marking their entry to medicine
Second-year students in the Physician Associate (PA) program helped their 37 first-year colleagues in the Class of 2009...
Autumn 2008
Students present their findings at 22nd Student Research Day
At this year’s Student Research Day, the 22nd Annual Scientific Poster Session featuring research by students in...
Autumn 2008
Match Day 2008
Nationally, this year’s match was the largest ever—more than 28,000 applicants competed for 22,240 slots as first-year...
Winter 2007
Beyond the white coat: training great doctors
In his welcoming speech to 100 members of the Class of 2010 at the White Coat Ceremony on August 29, Richard Belitsky,...
Winter 2007
“You are the guardians of your profession,” speaker tells new Physician Associates
Twenty-nine students in the Physician Associate Class of 2006 received their degrees at Commencement in September,...
Spring 2007
Downs fellows report on summer research
For Christopher P. McManus, a student at the School of Public Health and the School of Forestry & Environmental...
Spring 2007
Hunger and Homelessness Auction raises $36,000 for community agencies
The student-run Hunger and Homelessness Auction raised $36,313 in November for seven community agencies in New Haven,...
Autumn 2007
From the inner city to Yale and neurosurgery
An elite neurosurgeon born in crushing poverty, Benjamin Carson, M.D., told the Class of 2007 how learning transformed...
Autumn 2007
Learning, collaboration and engagement are essential, CDC chief tells EPH grads
In an increasingly interconnected world, public health networks are vitally important, Commencement speaker Julie L....
Autumn 2007
Anxiety penetrates Yale system! Students, faculty stressed! Deputy dean to the rescue!
What happened to the freewheeling, easygoing Yale system? How did stress enter the lives of Yale med students? Was it a...
Autumn 2007
As budding researchers, students reveal a talent for ‘mind-boggling’ science
From a study of a transgenic mouse with Alzheimer’s disease to an analysis of the effects of clinic attendance on...
Autumn 2007
Match Day 2007
Nationally, this year’s match was the largest in the program’s 55-year history, with almost 28,000 medical students...
Spring 2006
PA grads urged to keep learning
At their Commencement in September the 29 members of the Physician Associate Program’s Class of 2005 heard words of...
Spring 2006
Proposing a new paradigm as international health hits close to home
Each October, students in medicine, nursing and public health present their findings from a summer of research abroad...
Spring 2006
Still going strong—Hunger and Homelessness Auction nets $32,000 for local groups
Thirteen years ago a second-year student asked his classmates to join him in a fund-raising activity in which he’d...
Spring 2006
Medical student receives psychiatry fellowship
Second-year medical student Mallika Lakshmi Mendu has received a 2005 Jeanne Spurlock Minority Medical Student Clinical...
Autumn 2006
Always put the patient first
The pressures of the real world will challenge their graduation-day idealism, Herbert S. Chase Jr., M.D., told the 101...
Autumn 2006
Calls for morality, justice and passion at Epidemiology and Public Health ceremony
With a child under five dying somewhere in the world every 3 seconds and a child born into poverty in the United States...
Autumn 2006
Obesity, AIDS and a shark’s gland are among the topics of Student Research Day
In the 1990s, Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Starr Center for Human Genetics at Rockefeller...
Autumn 2006
"UnderRated" skewers rankings and—as ever—the med school faculty
When the School of Medicine dropped to number 11 in the annual U.S. News and World Report rankings for best research...
Autumn 2006
2006 residency placements for Yale medical students
The Office of Student Affairs has provided the following list, which outlines the results of the National Resident...
Summer 2005
An unfinished agenda: keeping people healthy
Growing up in a small town in Arkansas, M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., never saw a physician until she went to college. But...
Summer 2005
An “old-fashioned” idea: nothing is more important than the public health
Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser peered at the 107 public health students gathered for Commencement in Battell...
Summer 2005
Match Day sees more bound for New Haven residencies and training as generalists
While many people celebrated March 17 as St. Patrick’s Day, medical students from the Class of 2005 had another reason...
Summer 2005
2005 residency placements for Yale medical students
The Office of Student Affairs has provided the following list, which outlines the results of the National Resident...
Summer 2005
Boffo reviews for Golden Probe!! Raves for Alpern!! Überstein rocks Harkness!!
The excitement was palpable at the First Annual Golden Probe Awards, the Class of 2007’s entry in the ever-popular...
Summer 2005
Balancing the bedside and the bench, and having fun along the way
As he delivered the 18th annual Farr Lecture at Student Research Day in May, Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., HS ’78, FW ’83,...
Spring 2005
Good doctors and great doctors
Stitched through the threads of the physician’s white coat are emblems of both power and responsibility, Robert J....
Spring 2005
Former surgeon general urges PA graduates to “look for a calling”
Antonia C. Novello, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.Ph., the first woman and first Hispanic to become surgeon general, offered...
Spring 2005
Auction raises more than $26,000
Among the first fund-raising events of the 12th annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction in November was a flag football...
Spring 2005
Downs fellows share a world of knowledge
Last summer, 17 students in medicine, nursing and public health traveled to Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the...
Autumn 2005
A call to professionalism
At the beginning of the White Coat Ceremony in August, Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., assured the 100 members of the...
Winter 2004
Another school year, 100 new white jackets
For the 100 students in the first-year class, the annual White Jacket Ceremony is a symbolic introduction to medicine...
Winter 2004
A welcome to Yale
Greetings to the double-oh-seven class. This is both a lucky number class and, I suspect, a theme for your second year...
Winter 2004
Put authority to the test, Commencement speaker urges physician associates
In his Commencement address to the Physician Associate Class of 2003, Charles A. Morgan III, M.D., associate professor...
Summer 2004
Subspecialties? That’s our specialty
“Have any of you guys been having Match nightmares?” one of my classmates asked in March, a week or so before the 2004...
Summer 2004
2004 residency placements for Yale medical students
CALIFORNIACalifornia Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco Paul Kim, radiation oncologyContra Costa Regional Medical...
Summer 2004
In a darkened Harkness, video reigns king of the second-year show
An ad from the Office of Admissions in the program for this year’s second-year show congratulated the Class of 2006,...
Spring 2004
The bigger questions in science
When Political Science 309b—“Leading Issues in Bioethics”—met for the first time a year ago, Arthur W. Galston, Ph.D.,...
Spring 2004
A week of fund-raising nets $20,000 for the hungry and homeless
Thursday usually finds Interim Dean Dennis D. Spencer, M.D., HS ’77, in the operating room. But last November 20, he...
Spring 2004
Art class gives students of medicine, anatomy another resource to draw upon
On occasional Thursday afternoons throughout the academic year’s first semester, students returned after hours to the...
Fall/Winter 2004
Finding a way to do the right thing
As a medical student on an internal medicine rotation, Atul Gawande, M.D., M.P.H., wasn’t particularly worried about...
Fall/Winter 2004
“Healthy people are the foundation on which we build,” Gates speaker says
Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., didn’t start out wanting a career in medicine or public health. She simply went to...
Fall/Winter 2004
At Student Research Day, encouraging a new cadre of physician-scientists
Among the 68 students presenting posters at Student Research Day in May were three who spent the past year doing...
Fall/Winter 2004
Integrative medicine: student group bridges a gap in medical education
Medical students have a lot to learn, and not all of it is in today’s textbooks. One glaring omission in the...
Fall/Winter 2004
Clinical practice suites open in Harkness
Students have a new place to practice patient interviews and physical exams with the opening of seven clinical suites...
Winter 2003
With diverse roots and much in common, Class of 2006 is welcomed to Yale
As with many of the classes that have come before, the Class of 2006 is a group of individuals with strong similarities...
Winter 2003
Be true to yourself, your education and your profession, PA grads urged
In her Commencement address, Ina Cushman, PA-C ’86, president of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, urged...
Winter 2003
Surgery program sails forward
Last February, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) threatened to withdraw approval of...
Summer 2003
The crescendo of four years
In a scene that combined the envelope-opening excitement of the Academy Awards with the destination-determining drama...
Summer 2003
2003 residency placements for Yale medical students
CALIFORNIA Loma Linda UniversityMichael Bolton, plastic surgerySanta Clara Valley Medical Center, San JoseWarren Kim,...
Summer 2003
Still smokin’, still addictive
Ever since his arrival at Yale in 1997 fresh from his battles with the tobacco industry as head of the Food and Drug...
Spring 2003
Volunteers dish out a taste of hunger
An invitation to a banquet usually conjures up images of heaps of sumptuous food, a decadent dessert and a cup of...
Spring 2003
To the four corners of the globe, studying mosquitoes, hookworms and alcohol
On the surface, both strains of Anopheles arabiensis look the same, and inside their bodies, both types of mosquitoes...
Autumn 2003
Medicine from the heart, as well as the head
Click here for commencement photosSheltered under a tent to ward off a driving rain, 97 students received their medical...
Autumn 2003
It takes “a posse” to protect the world’s health, former CDC director asserts
Jeffrey P. Koplan, M.D., M.P.H., says cowboys get a bad rap. In his youth he lived the cowboy life himself on a...
Autumn 2003
NIAID director receives honorary degree
At Commencement ceremonies on Old Campus, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Autumn 2003
For young physician-scientists, a mentor is no longer a single sage but a network
Unlike past generations, physicians now entering the world of academic medicine no longer seek a single mentor, said...
Autumn 2003
The war between ideology and science is costing lives, speaker tells AIDS gathering
People are dying because public health policy has fallen victim to “the war of ideology over science,” keynote speaker...
Winter 2002
From far and wide, in a class of their own
Collectively, the 100 members of the Class of 2005 have interned in the White House, built an orphanage in the...
Winter 2002
Counsel from the council
As first-year students arrived on campus, the Medical Student Council, led by President Kavita Mariwalla, Vice...
Winter 2002
Fund-raising event, now a fall tradition, takes a different tack
In a break from tradition, anatomy professor William B. Stewart, Ph.D., sold his trademark bow tie this year not at the...
Winter 2002
Advice from Hippocrates
Borrowing from the ancients, Charles A. Morgan III, M.D., offered advice and wisdom to the 35 graduates of the...
Winter 2002
International scholars find their work takes on a new importance
When the Committee on International Health held its annual symposium in early October, the events of September 11 and...
Summer 2002
Excursions with Paul Greengard
The visit of Paul Greengard, Ph.D., to Yale in May was a homecoming of sorts for the Nobel laureate.Greengard, who gave...
Summer 2002
The science behind AIDS and prevention
About 250 people attended AIDS Science Day at the School of Public Health on April 12 for discussions of a wide range...
Summer 2002
For budding scientists, the road ahead holds both promise and pitfalls
At a biotech job fair in February, a panelist on alternative careers offered a sobering statistic. “Only one in five of...
Summer 2002
A good year to be matching
Nationally, a record number of seniors make the grade; for two Yale students, it’s on to Hopkins and UCSF.By 11:30 a.m....
Summer 2002
2002 residency placements for Yale medical students
The Office of Student Affairs has provided the following list, which outlines the results of the National Resident...
Spring 2002
Another second-year show: Utterly forgettable, and well worth remembering
Behind every great fortune, the saying goes, lies a great crime. The same could be said of the second-year show. Always...
Autumn 2002
Seeking balance when it comes to power
For a health care provider, real empathy boils down to whether he or she has genuine curiosity about individual...
Autumn 2002
Back to New Haven, for a second look
Over the course of two days in early May, scores of accepted applicants returned for another look at the medical...
Summer 2001
Challenges abound in public health, surgeon general tells graduates
Citing 100 years of advances in science, such as the eradication of smallpox, a 30-year increase in longevity and...
Summer 2001
For this year’s graduates, a bit of pomp and controversy
For Associate Dean Ruth J. Katz, J.D., M.P.H., the Class of 2001 will always be her first class. As its chosen speaker...
Summer 2001
Medicine Commencement 2001
The following prizes were awarded to School of Medicine faculty and students at Commencement:Bohmfalk Prize Emile...
Summer 2001
EPH Commencement 2001
The following prizes were awarded to faculty and students of the School of Public Health at Commencement:Award for...
Summer 2001
On Student Research Day, a chance to share observations and conclusions
Three years ago, when Jacqueline C. Dolev signed up for a course to improve her clinical observation skills, she didn’t...
Summer 2001
Exuberance rules the day as residency placements are revealed
Even before noon on March 22, it was clear that the crowd gathering outside the mailroom at Harkness Dormitory was...
Summer 2001
2001 residency placements for Yale medical students
CALIFORNIAAlameda County Medical Center, Oakland Matthew Gutierrez, transitionalKaiser Permanente Medical Group, Santa...
Spring 2001
Harkness renovations heralded
A $20 million renovation of E.S. Harkness Hall has brought new plumbing, heating and electrical wiring to the aging...
Spring 2001
Benefit for the hungry and homeless raises $25,000
The eighth annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction achieved a number of firsts in November as it raised more than...
Autumn 2001
Helping, and learning, through disaster relief in India
Midway through their 10-day trip to western India in March to help with earthquake-relief efforts, a team of Yale...
Spring 2000
Gone!
An electric scooter, a week in a London townhouse and a squash game with the director of admissions were among the...
Spring 2000
Getting things done in the field
Foreign fieldwork sometimes requires seat-of-the-pants skills beyond drawing blood or crafting a health survey. During...
Spring 2000
Healing after torture
A Yale student looks at the link between scar and symptom. Shadowing clinicians at Bellevue Hospital in New York City...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
A new year, 106 new careers
When Dagan Coppock came to the School of Medicine as an applicant, he knew he would like it here. His interviewers...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
“Don’t Throw Me the Knife” and other survival skills for the clinic
In years past, third-year medical students entered the wards armed only with whatever clinical exposure they’d gleaned...
Winter 1999
Donning plain white coats, 102 students are welcomed to a lifetime of medicine
Six years ago, alumnus Nicholas P.R. Spinelli, M.D. ’44, donated 100 starched white coats to the School of Medicine,...
Winter 1999
International fellows travel the globe to learn by doing
Each year, students come from around the world to study medicine, nursing and public health at Yale. Over the past...
Summer 1999
The Match goes online, but students prefer old-fashioned envelopes
The Internet proved no match for snail mail as scores of students gathered in Harkness Hall on Match Day, March 18, to...
Summer 1999
Pioneer in G proteins urges students toward careers in research
The speaker at this year’s Student Research Day warned his audience of the perils of spending too much time in the lab....
Summer 1999
Education gets high marks, but students worry about safety
While 90 percent of students rated the quality of education at the medical school as good or excellent, they also...
Summer 1999
Student-led course helps clinicians with their Spanish
Imagine being sick and helpless in a hospital, surrounded by strangers in white jackets, stethoscopes hanging from...
Summer 1999
Students help students find their way to a college education
For 10 weeks this winter and spring, high-school students from New Haven and nearby communities gave up their Saturday...
Summer 1999
At commencement, candidate Dole addresses health care concerns
In a commencement speech that touched on gun control, Kosovo and advances in medicine and biology, Elizabeth Dole urged...
Summer 1999
Hold fast to ideals and integrity, public health students urged
At a time of great and varied challenges to public health, Michael H. Merson, M.D., dean of public health, urged the...
Summer 1999
1999 residency placements for Yale medical students
The Office of Student Affairs has provided the following list, which outlines the results of the National Resident...
Spring 1999
A vision realized
When first-year medical student Vivek Murthy completes his medical training and begins his career as a physician, he...
Spring 1999
“A transforming experience”
Each summer, public health students abandon the classroom and enter the world of business, health, law or politics to...
Spring 1999
On Martin Luther King Day, an affirmation of ideals
In song, speeches and verse, students and faculty at the medical school honored the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life...
Spring 1999
Auction raises $25,000 for the homeless and hungry
The sixth annual Hunger and Homeless Auction organized by students last November raised more than $25,000 for local...
Spring 1999
Three students recognized
At a ceremony in May, students received awards for writing and community service. Claire Stylianopoulos, a first-year...
Spring 1999
A world of possibilities
The sounds of a gospel choir, Chilean and Cuban poetry, Korean drums and Native American chants filled Harkness...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
A covenant with medicine
In early September, following seven years of tradition, members of the Class of 2003 donned the white coats that...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Sounds reasonable
This year, the medical school is offering a new course in the “Principles of Clinical Reasoning,” a day-long session in...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
In the beginning, anatomy
A few weeks ago, the first-year medical and physician associate students sat in Hope 110 for an introduction to the...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
EPH inaugurates full-tuition scholarship
Among the 105 students beginning the master’s program in public health are four who are receiving full scholarships for...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
PA program graduates first class to receive a master’s degree
At a ceremony in August, the 32 members of the physician associate Class of 1999 became the first to receive master’s...
Winter/Spring 1998
Auction raises funds for homeless shelters and food pantries
The Fifth Annual Hunger and Homelessness Benefit Auction raised more than $20,000 for New Haven homeless shelters and...
Winter/Spring 1998
Students notes
Rajani P. Nadkarni, M.D., postdoctoral fellow in oncology and hematology at Yale, has joined the oncology and...
Summer 1998
Student Notes
The Medical Student Council elected new officers in April: For president, Sharon Chekijian, A.B., Smith College; for...
Summer 1998
Just what the doctor ordered
No cow was too sacred for the Class of 2000, as it lampooned deans, beloved faculty members and lowly first-year...
Summer 1998
Match Day reveals a trend toward generalism
Cheers and applause erupted a few minutes before noon as the stack of envelopes made its way from the registrar's...
Summer 1998
1998 residency placements for Yale medical students
CALIFORNIALAC-USC Medical Center Gregory Chin, surgery, otolaryngologySan Diego Naval Base Helen Chun, internal...
Fall 1998
Student notes
A team of three Yale Physician Associate students took first prize in the medical challenge bowl playoffs held in March...
Fall 1998
‘Do some good in the world,’ dean exhorts Class of 1998
As the 106 members of the Class of 1998 received their medical degrees in May, Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., urged them...
Fall 1998
Student awards
Parker Prize: Hahnah J. KasowskiThe Miriam Kathleen Dasey Award: Michelle A. BartonThe Norma Bailey Berniker Prize:...
Fall 1998
Faculty awards
Bohmfalk Prizes: Stuart D. Flynn, M.D., associate professor of pathology, and Richard J. Gusberg, M.D., professor of...
Fall 1998
Health is a global affair, EPH graduates are told at Commencement
People entering the field of public health face issues that are becoming more complex by the day, journalist Laurie...
Fall 1998
Nobelist returns to New Haven for Student Research Day
Growing up in New Haven as the son of a Yale pharmacologist, Alfred G. Gilman, M.D., Ph.D., recalls feeling at home in...
Fall 1998
In doctor’s black bag, decades of family history
In choosing a medical career, many budding physicians receive friendly bits of advice and the occasional keepsake from...
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