February 16, 2021
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A view to the north from 100 College St., the future home of the Wu Tsai Institute. (Photo: Dan Renzetti)
The human brain is the source and conduit of all ideas, beliefs, and dreams.
It drives us to produce art, literature, and science, to feel and describe love, to invent for survival and diversion alike.
Through it, we perceive, we wonder, we question: Why? How? What if?
Researchers at Yale University have been studying the brain for generations. Now, a new and historic philanthropic gift is launching an ambitious research enterprise devoted to the study of human cognition that will supercharge Yale’s neuroscience initiative and position the university to reveal the brain in its full, dynamic complexity.
By Susan Gonzalez
February 15, 2021
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Cajetan Iheka
Yale faculty member Cajetan Iheka was an undergraduate in his home country of Nigeria at the height of unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta in the 2000s. Militants were setting fire to oil installations and kidnapping oil workers in the region one of the least developed parts of the country in protest of the exploitation of their land. During his junior year, a professor introduced Iheka and his classmates to novels, poetry, and drama that depicted the Niger Delta oil crisis, igniting his interest in the environment and the ways that literature can guide or transform our thinking about it.
By William Weir
February 12, 2021
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There are a few ways we perceive food, and not all are particularly well-understood. We know that much of it happens in the olfactory bulb, a small lump of tissue between the eyes and behind the nose, but how the stimuli arrive at this part of the brain is still being worked out.
How these stimuli are processed in the brain plays a major role in our daily life. Fully understanding how our perceptions of food are formed is critical, Fahmeed Hyder said, but getting a clear picture of what our brains do when we smell has been tricky.
By Jim Shelton
February 10, 2021
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Former Yale postdoc Danielle Speller, who is now as assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, documents the process of detector assembly. (Credit: Sid Cahn)
The search for dark matter the invisible glue that binds the cosmos and makes up most of the mass of galaxies is a bit like looking for a needle in a near-infinite haystack.
For one thing, scientists don’t know exactly what dark matter is. They are only able to infer its existence based on the gravitational pull it has on visible matter.
February 7, 2021
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(Illustration by Eri Griffin)
The New Haven Police Department is investigating the Saturday night killing of a Yale graduate student, which it is treating as a homicide.
Kevin Jiang, a second-year master’s student at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE), was shot and killed on Lawrence Street between Nicoll and Nash in the city’s East Rock neighborhood. Police are actively working to apprehend the person or people responsible.
“I have spoken with Kevin’s mother to express my sincere condolences,” President Peter Salovey said Sunday. “He was an extraordinary young man, and his loss is a shocking and senseless tragedy for his family, for all who loved him, and for our community.”