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Fall/Winter 1971
“The present first year medical class is the largest in the school’s history—102 students. This is a ten percent increase in class size as compared with the previous year and is the second increase...
Fall 1985
“In just the last decade, the field of medical diagnostic imaging has entered into a new era with a dazzling spectrum of computer-based technology that has vastly improved diagnostic capability, and...
From Other Issues

Spring 2009
May 1959
Alumni Day 1959“Those who attended the February Alumni Day activities at the School of Medicine were privileged to hear...

Spring 2009
Summer/Fall 1984
... In Progress: Cancer“The National Cancer Institute recently awarded a grant of $421,000 for support for three years...

Winter 2009
Januray 1959
Hunter Radiation Therapy Center Dedicated“The new Hunter Radiation Therapy Center was dedicated on Friday afternoon,...

Winter 2009
Spring 1984
Program for Humanities in Medicine“The School of Medicine recently received a grant from the Connecticut Council for...

Autumn 2008
May 1958
Report on Alumni Day“In spite of a heavy snowfall the preceding weekend and snow flurries on the morning of Saturday,...

Autumn 2008
Fall/Winter 1983
The Case of Three Missing Hamsters“Three infected hamsters reported missing from their cage in the animal containment...

Spring 2008
October 1958
Artificial Kidney to be Purchased“The School of Medicine has received $5,000 from the United Fund of Middletown,...

Spring 2008
Spring/Summer 1983
Mystery of Lyme Disease a Step Closer to Being Solved“Scientists at the School of Medicine have isolated for the first...

Winter 2008
January 1958
Medical School Building Demolished“About 1860 the Yale School of Medicine moved from the old South Sheffield Hall to a...

Winter 2008
Spring 1983
School’s Building Projects Earn Recognition“Two recent School of Medicine building projects have received awards. The...

Autumn 2007
January 1957
Bone Engineering“An unusual research project involving an orthopaedic surgeon and an engineer from the Yale faculty was...

Autumn 2007
Winter 1982
A Review: A Sense of the Ending“ ‘A Sense of the Ending’ is a television production about terminal illness as seen from...

Spring 2007
October 1957
New Integrated Course in Basic Neurology“The extensive growth of knowledge concerning the nervous system resulting from...

Spring 2007
Fall/Winter 1982
Yale Enters a Cooperative Research Agreement With Bristol-Myers for Development of Anticancer Drugs“Bristol-Myers...

Winter 2007
May 1957
Yale Receives Top Ford Foundation Grant“A record-setting grant of $3,600,000 to the Yale School of Medicine from the...

Winter 2007
Spring/Summer 1982
“The Move” Into New Patient Care Facility“The first patients moved into the Yale-New Haven Hospital’s new seven-story...
Autumn 2006
January 1956
Special reunions to be held in June“Since 1953, special alumni programs and class reunions have been arranged annually...
Autumn 2006
Spring /Summer 1981
Yale and New Haven Area Health Professionals Appeal for the Prevention of Nuclear War“In a full page advertisement in...

Spring 2006
May 1956
The Dean’s Report“In his annual report to the alumni of the School of Medicine on February 22, Dean Lippard reviewed...

Spring 2006
Winter/Spring 1981
“From This Small Sapling ..."“On December 1, shortly after noon, five men from the School of Medicine gathered in the...

Autumn 2005
January 1955
Students’ Loan Fund of Yale Men in Medicine“The following statement is published at the request of the officers and...

Autumn 2005
Summer 1955
Human Genetics finds a new home“The completion of the third floor of the Nathan Smith Building has long been awaited by...

Summer 2005
October 1955
New Graduate Program in Medical Sociology“Yale University will start a new graduate program in medical sociology—the...

Summer 2005
Winter/Spring 1980
Match Day 1980“Match Day is the culmination of several months of planning, counseling, and decision making on the part...

Spring 2005
May 1955
The Codex Paneth“One of the world’s most famous medical manuscripts, the six hundred year old Codex Paneth, has been...

Spring 2005
Fall 1980
Minority High School Students Learn First Hand About Biomedical Research“Nine students from New Haven area high schools...

Fall/Winter 2004
January 1954
Wanted: Books for General Reading“A small bookplate indicating ownership of the Yale Medical Library and bearing the...

Fall/Winter 2004
Winter 1979
A Special Program to Help Juvenile Diabetics“… Last year, Connecticut became the second state (after Florida) to...

Summer 2004
May 1954
The Yale-New Haven Medical Center“The Yale School of Medicine and the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital will expand...

Summer 2004
Summer 1979
Peter Parker: Physician—Missionary—Diplomat“It has been said that Peter Parker opened China at the point of a lancet....

Spring 2004
October 1953
“General plans for the construction of the new Edward S. Harkness Memorial Residence Hall, generous gift of the...

Spring 2004
Fall/Winter 1983
“The John B. Pierce Foundation Laboratory celebrated its 50th anniversary on November 4th, and paid tribute to Dr. A....

Winter 2004
October 1958
“Discovery of the first hormone ever isolated from the pineal gland has been reported by Dr. Aaron B. Lerner and his...

Winter 2004
Summer 1994
“At a medical school so steeped in tradition, Dean Gerard N. Burrow, M.D. ’58, knows full well how difficult it is to...

Autumn 2003
Winter 1969
“The Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics have combined forces to organize a Division of Genetics embracing all ages...

Autumn 2003
Spring 1983
“Two recent School of Medicine building projects have received awards. The New Haven Preservation Trust presented a...

Summer 2003
Winter 1968
“Alumni and particularly former house staff will be pleased to learn that the stipends for interns and residents at...

Summer 2003
Spring 1991
“Both adults and children can now be treated at Yale for vascular tumors of the skin, thanks to the new pulsed dye...

Spring 2003
Winter 1966
“The revolution in clinical pathology at Yale is two-fold. On the technical side, new methods of testing and data...

Spring 2003
Summer 1989
“Approximately 700 of the world’s leading geneticists gathered at the University during the week of June 11 to fit...

Autumn 2002
Spring 1966
“ ‘If I understand the Yale System correctly, its aim is to minimize compulsion and maximize diversity in the...

Autumn 2002
Winter 1985:
“Plans are finalized and construction will begin soon of an ambulatory care facility that will consolidate clinics and...

Spring 2002
From “Fifteen years of Growth: Yale Medicine 1952-1967" in the Spring 1967 issue:
“Speaking at the Yale Alumni Meeting in St. Louis in January this year, Dean [Vernon] Lippard noted: ‘When Whitney...

Spring 2002
From “Research in Molecular Bilogy," Winter 1970:
“A new department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry was established at Yale last year to promote the interaction...
Spring 2001
Winter 1975
“Dr. George Palade, chairman of the section of cell biology, was awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology or...
Spring 2001
Winter 1976
“Yale-New Haven Hospital is one of the first hospitals in the nation to use a computerized axial tomographic scanner....
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
The case of the CIA and butter clam toxin
“The object of Dr. Ritchie’s concern is a supply of the poison, saxitoxin, which the agency kept in violation of a...



