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SOM Career Conversations: Dr. Michael Apkon ’02 MBA, CEO, Tufts Medical Center

Eric Patridge (Photo credit: Chris Randall/I Love New Haven)

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Queer in STEM Symposium seeks to improve path for LGBTQ scientists at Yale

Left to right: L to R: Jill Allen, Terry Dunn '76, and Eric Allen '76

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An alumnus returns to Yale to find much wonder, great promise (and less homework)

Hopper standing behind a car parked near Cruft Lab, Harvard University, ca. 1945–1947, where she worked on the Mark I computer. (Photo courtesy of Grace Murray Hopper Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution)

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Math — not computer science — was Grace Hopper’s ’30 MA, ’34 PhD first language

Dawn Lippert '06, '07 MEM is one of three Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies alumni named to the Girst list of 50 top young environmental leaders.

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Grist list of 50 environmental ‘fixers’ features three Yale F&ES alumni

Dhruv Nandamudi '18 was one of two Yalies named Gates-Cambridge Scholars for 2019.

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Dhruv Nandamudi '18 named Gates-Cambridge Scholar

The Engineers Without Borders-Yale team helps local officials in Naitolia, Tanzania survey the top of existing embankment dam. Left to right: Erasto, Tula Ngasala, Ndesa, a Naitolia official, Annabelle Pan, and Patrick Hong.

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With alumni as their guide, students hone engineering skills by tackling real-world problems

Clarence Agbi '09

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From Yale to data science: How one alumnus made the leap

Coral Vita founders Gator Halpern ’15 MEM and Sam Teicher ’12, ’15 MEM down on the reefs.

Alumni startup counters coral loss with world’s first land-based coral farm

A collage of photos looking back at Yale's year in 2018

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YaleNews looks back on 2018

Faustin Carter PhD ’15 at the South Pole

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Studying Science, from the Elm City to the South Pole

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Video: 2018 AYA Assembly and Alumni Fund Convocation Discussion Panels

Akiko Iwasaki, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology discusses breakthroughs in inflammation research at a science and engineering panel for alumni volunteer leaders.

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At alumni assembly, leading faculty address Yale’s future in the sciences

Gregg Gonsalves, 2018 MacArthur Fellow

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Like winning the lottery: Gregg Gonsalves '17 PhD reflects on being awarded a MacArthur Fellowship

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Alumna Spotlight: Edith Pestana '93 M.P.H.

At the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Edith Pestana '93 MPH enforces policies while also serving as an educator and a first-responder.

Left to right: Yale School of Public Health Dean Sten Vermund, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Lynn Cooley, and Yale School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern.

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Deans’ panel discusses crossing boundaries at alumni assembly

Randi Hutter Epstein during a talk with Chelsea Clinton

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Suntans, stories, and Harvey Cushing: in conversation with Randi Hutter Epstein

Sara and KP with their children, Desmond and Eliana.

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Yale alumni startup aims to use tech to improve global healthcare access

Yale School of Management Dean Ted Snyder, Nordhaus, and Sterling Professor of Economics and fellow Nobel laureate in economics Robert Shiller

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Yale’s William Nordhaus '63, '72 MA wins 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Halley Ruppel ’18 PhD and Marjorie Funk ‘84 MSN, ‘92 PhD

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Reducing alarm rates in a medical ICU: YSN study published in PLOS ONE