Ambika Bhushan
Ambika Bhushan
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Hamilton left mark on sciences
It can be said that former Provost Andrew Hamilton, who is now enjoying the first week of what he calls a “gap year” before he becomes vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford next fall, is still a scientist first, an administrator second. And professors on Science Hill say it was that passion that allowed the smartly tailored Briton to leave such a mark on the sciences at Yale.
Practice makes perfect
Meet Sim-Man. He cannot walk, or talk, or do anything regular humans can do. He can, however, fake a myocardial infarction, pretend to vomit or act as if he is dying.
Political violence shown to breed violent behavior
For immigrants who fled their homelands to escape the daily reality of political violence, violence — though in another form — may have followed them across the borders, according to new research released by the Yale School of Public Health.
In MB&B 320, rewriting the tree of life
Professor Scott Strobel’s revolutionary class takes students out of the lab and into the rainforest, searching for exotic plants and collecting samples for research. Staff reporter AMBIKA BHUSHAN reports on the unique and groundbreaking organisms uncovered on Strobel’s most recent expedition.
For Yale team, a search for dark matter
Yale scientists began work Wednesday on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and most expensive international particle physics experiment to be undertaken to date.
Salovey: An ‘emotional’ student
Psychology became a passion of his soon after Salovey picked up a copy of Elliot Aronson’s “The Social Animal” the summer between his senior year of high school and freshman year of college at Stanford University, where he ended up majoring in psychology and sociology.
Briefly: AIDS research gets $11 million grant
Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, one of eight HIV research centers in the country, announced yesterday it will receive a grant of $11 million from the National Institute of Mental Health, which will help fund another five years of HIV/AIDS research and health-care projects.
Around New Haven: Cancer center celebrates funding
Late in July, the Smilow Cancer Hospital celebrated a milestone in its construction — a ceremony at which its final steel girders were fixed onto the 14th floor.
Natural births: Better after all?
The adage “no pain, no gain” may have some truth to it after all. Mothers who give birth vaginally show significantly greater brain activity in response to their baby’s cry than mothers who have chosen a Cesarean section, new research conducted by a group of researchers at the Yale Child Study Center suggests.
Discovering a tiny gene's role in big diseases
Staff reporter AMBIKA BHUSHAN reports on new genome research and microbiology techniques at the Yale School of Medicine.