Rebecca Distler
Rebecca Distler
Recent Stories
The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
I wasn’t prepared for the firebombs.
Up the Hill - A Stressful Collaboration
For the researchers of the Yale Stress Consortium, performing a scientific study is like painting a picture. Using interdisciplinary tactics, professors like Hilary Blumberg research trenchant disorders that plague the brain.
Hibachi heaven hits the Elm City
In this world, there are two types of restaurants: college-geared and real life. But on the corner of Elm and State Streets, Kumo — a new Japanese Hibachi steakhouse where chefs prepare food table-side with a flurry of tricks on an open, flat grill — is challenging that view.
After symposium, mental health research continues
Two weeks after the National Association for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) held a symposium at Yale, University researchers and scientists are continuing to explore many of the projects and ideas presented at the mental-health conference.
Lombroso Lab: Learning, memory and the neuro-frontier
On Sunday, Yale’s Anlyan Center Auditorium played host to the National Association for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression annual symposium on current research as part of its Healthy Minds Across America initiative. The News caught up with one of the researchers, Paul Lombroso, director of the Yale molecular neurobiology laboratory — called the Lombroso Lab — to talk about his presentation at the symposium, his ongoing work and his plans for the future.
Larger than taste permits
After over 20 years of traveling the jungles of South America, noted nature photographer Frans Lanting brings his photography to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.