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07/29/19

Yale Refugee Health Program Provides Medical Home for Refugees

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) students and faculty play a key role ensuring the approximately 250 refugees who arrive annually to Greater New Haven receive high quality health care and guidance as they transition to a new health care system. The Yale Refugee Health Program (YR...
07/27/19

ELTI: Empowering People to Conserve and Restore Tropical Forests

This is a crucial moment for the world’s tropical forests. Among the most biodiverse systems in the world, tropical forests are also one of the most vulnerable to deforestation, biodiversity loss, and land degradation. "If you look at any of the most important metr...
07/23/19

Finance Summer School Draws Global Cohort of Doctoral Students

Students from universities across the United States and Europe convened at the Yale School of Management for the 2019 Yale Summer School in Behavioral Finance from June 24 to 28. The one-week program is an intensive PhD course in behavioral finance, led by Yale SOM facult...
A young woman provides a DNA sample via cheek swab.
07/17/19

Study examines effects of genes and resilience on Syrian refugee youth

A new study demonstrates the influence of genetic factors and resilience — the resources and capacities for overcoming adversity — on changes in levels of psychosocial stress and mental health for Syrian refugee youth who experienced war and forced displacement. &...
Attendees gather in the Day Missions Library / photo by Christopher Anderson
07/15/19

Scholars explore world Christianity at Yale-Edinburgh Group meeting

From June 27 to 29, more than 100 scholars from around the world gathered at Yale Divinity School for the annual conference of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on World Christianity and the History of Mission(link is external). The meeting was co-sponsored by YDS, the Overseas Mi...
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07/12/19

Yale co-authors new publication on the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The Yale Office of Sustainability contributed to a new publication on advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Global Priorities, Educated Solutions: the role of academia in advancing the Sustainable Development Goalswas published by the International Allian...
Panelists at a SELA event at the University of Buenos Aires: Alejandro Madrazo LL.M.'03, J.S.D'06; Paul Kahn '80, Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and Director of the Schell Center for International Human Rights; Martin Böhmer LL.M. '90, J.S.D'12; and Celeste Braga Beatove.
07/10/19

Seminar Returns to Argentina with Gender and Equality Focus

Legal scholars from Yale Law School and 14 countries convened in Buenos Aires in June for the 24th annual Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoría Constitutional y Política, or SELA, this year addressing the topic of gender and equality. The seminar brought t...
Yale School of Public Health Dean Sten Vermund
07/09/19

Yale-India business accelerator to promote innovative health solutions

Five early stage startups building innovative solutions in healthcare have been chosen as the first participants in the Sustainable Health Initiative (SHI), a business accelerator established earlier this year by a partnership between the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH...
07/08/19

2019 Yale Young African Scholars program kicks off

On July 25, the Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) program kicks off its 2019 season with sessions in Accra, Ghana; Harare, Zimbabwe; and, for the first time, in Nairobi, Kenya. YYAS brings together African secondary school students for a cost-free, seven-day residential prog...
Participants at Yale Center Beijing on June 26
06/28/19

The art of light: Yale Center Beijing hosts intercultural dialogue on theater

“Theater is the art of light,” said Yale professor Yuri Kordonsky during a recent discussion at Yale Center in Beijing. On the evening of June 26, over 80 participants gathered the center for a dialogue between two renowned theater experts: Kordonsky, professor ...

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