Maggie Wittlin
Maggie Wittlin
Recent Stories
Adopt-A-Doc performs outreach
Pediatricians are breaking away from the pacifying walls of Yale-New Haven Hospital and taking it to the city streets. The Adopt-A-Doc program at Yale-New Haven Hospital puts pediatric residents in contact with the neighborhoods of New Haven.
Prof shows kids what they are made of
School of Nursing lecturer brings organs and bones to elementary schools to spark interest in anatomy
Linda Pellico keeps two sets of pig lungs in the back of her Subaru. This cargo might put off any officer of the law, but to local elementary school children, it is just one item in a unique show-and-tell students simply describe as "cool." As part of...
Medical research bears fruit
When the stork brings a mother a new baby, it sometimes brings high blood pressure, excessive bleeding or pre-term labor with it. That is why doctors in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the School of Medicine are...
Study says virginity pledges are ineffective
Young adults who take virginity pledges do not have a lower rate of sexually transmitted diseases than those who do not pledge, according to a recent study by sociology professors at Yale and Columbia. Hannah Bruckner of Yale and Peter Bearman of...
Psychologists test monkeys' theory of mind
The study of cognitive science is just monkey business, at least when the experiment subjects are Rhesus monkeys. Jonathan Flombaum GRD '08, a graduate student in psychology, and Laurie Santos, a psychology professor, recently conducted a series of...
Egg research clarifies cholesterol confusion
Study suggests eggs do not raise cardiac risk
A recent Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center study indicates that breakfast gourmands who fear ill effects of eggs can cast off their yolks of burden. A research group has concluded that eggs can be part of a heart-healthy diet for individuals...
Cartoons shed light on autism
Seeing kids getting excited about cartoons is hardly cause for alarm, but when David Grelotti, a former research assistant at the Yale Child Study Center, observed that autistic children knew more about cartoons than about people, he took note.
Alonzo discusses fish reproduction, parenting
Amongst the Mediterranean wrasse -- fish that are found in shallow, coastal waters -- stay-at-home dads get all the love, and the deadbeats get none. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor Suzanne Alonzo delivered her talk, "Games Fish Play: The...