Angela Hygh
Angela Hygh
Recent Stories
Little Pill, Big Price
For two years, Megan Danna ’08 had been dutifully swallowing her birth control pill at the same time every day. The daily dose of estrogen and progestin in Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo helped keep her severe premenstrual symptoms at bay. Even better, it was dirt cheap. She remembers paying as little as four to eight dollars for four months worth of her pill of choice when her prescription began. Then October rolled around, and the price jumped.
Recycling now at a desk side near you
New mixed paper recycling bins are now cropping up next to individual office desks across Yale's campus, as the latest in University efforts to increase recycling on campus and match the recycling rates at Harvard.
The Return of the Eagles
Safe in the sturdy branches of an oak tree, the first bald eagle nest in the recorded history of the Quinnipiac River hangs 75 feet above ground, overlooking a stretch of marshland by the riverbank.
Healthy habits found in pairs
A new study by researchers at Yale and Duke University reveals that people are up to five times more likely to adopt healthy behaviors — such as giving up drinking or smoking, exercising, obtaining a flu shot or getting a cholesterol screening — if their spouses also adopt the healthy behavior.
Shoppers cash in on Broadway
During the promotion, which is held twice a year, retail businesses and restaurants on Broadway and on the corners of Elm and York streets offer 10 to 50 percent discounts and free gifts to local college students.
‘Unborn’ doc. to screen at Yale
A photographer salvaging aborted fetuses from a trash can outside an abortion clinic is only one part of what “Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion” co-director Stephen Fell called “a hell of a story out there that no one else was covering.”
Offerings at Art School expand
School responds to students’ need for more courses that focus on digital media
Demand for classes in digital media has grown rapidly in recent years, prompting the School of Art to add undergraduate courses in the subject.