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08/26/21

A Yale Alum Amid the 1918 ‘Spanish Flu’ Epidemic in Sierra Leone

As we all reflect on the challenges presented by COVID-19 pandemic, faculty, students, alumni/ae, and friends of Yale Divinity School look to Orishatukeh Faduma (1894 B.D) to gain insight and learn from his efforts to assist the residents of Sierra Leone to make...
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08/16/21

Yale researchers collaborate with policymakers to reduce India’s industrial air pollution

Indian states are deploying a new policy tool that shows potential to reduce their high air-pollution levels, which are estimated to have caused nearly 1.7 million deaths, or 18% of all Indian deaths, in 2019. The policy tool — an emissions trading system (ETS) known as...
08/09/21

Joint research on vaccination by Yale and Fiocruz in Brazil where COVID-19 Gamma variant is prevalent

New research by an international team of scientists from the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil among others has found vaccination highly effective in protecting the elderly during an epidemic where the COVID-19 Gamma v...
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07/28/21

Study finds poor households in India bear brunt of pollution effects

Poorer households in India are bearing a disproportional impact from pollution caused by others, a new study by Yale School of the Environment Associate Professor of Energy Systems Narasimha Rao has found. The study, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, is the firs...
07/26/21

Study co-authored by Yale’s Mushfiq Mobarak and Saad Omer: Prioritize developing nations for vaccine distribution

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07/23/21

Yale Receives $15 Million for Health Education Collaboration

Yale has received a $15 million, five-year U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) award to advance research utilization in Liberia’s health sector. This award will fund the continuation of Yale’s strong partnership with the University of Liberia and Vand...
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07/22/21

Brazilian Fulbright Award offered for teaching and research at Yale

The new Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Yale University will give one $30,000 award for a Brazilian scholar to spend one academic semester per year lecturing and researching beginning in the fall term 2022 or spring term 2023 f...
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07/05/21

For women workers in India, direct deposit is ‘digital empowerment’

India ranks 140th among 156 Nations in the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Gender Gap Index and is only ahead of Pakistan and Afghanistan in South Asia with some of the world’s lowest labor force participation rates. In their latest research, Yale economists  ...
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06/14/21

Yale’s Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative Partnership in Togo, Madagascar and Ethiopia

Yale’s Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI) recently finalized a series of short videos highlighting courses delivered in partnership with International Union for Conservation of Nature in Togo, Madagascar and Ethiopia for environmental dec...
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06/04/21

Discovery in bird feathers has the potential to make fiber optics, solar cells, and fuel cells more efficient

A team of scientists from Yale-NUS College, ETH Zurich, and Yale University have discovered how leafbirds make complex color-producing crystals with highly desirable optical and electronic properties. These crystals may serve as inspiration for multifunctional application...

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