• Professor Tongzhang Zheng confers with a student. 
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  Dr. David Weinman, II, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the Yale School of Medicine, reported here today (October 30, 1957) that he had succeeded in restoring infectivity to inactive Trypanosoma--the tiny protozoa that causes African Sleeping Sickness. Dr. Weinman, who has just returned from a year's field trip to West Africa (he points to sleeping sickness in Uganda, in photo above), described his findings as the first step in unlocking the biological secret of infectivity. "More research is needed to solve the puzzle," he said.

  From the Yale University Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Historical Library, Bicentennial Collection.

• Megan McInnis, an MPH candidate at the Yale School of Public Health, explored how stigma and gender identity affect and/or are correlated with three major mental health problems (anxiety, depression and post traumatic stress disorder) within the homosexual and transgendered women’s community in Chennai, India in the summer of 2011. In this photo, women enjoy the evening breeze at Marina beach, one of the largest beaches in the world. 
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  The Women’s Table, located by Sterling Memorial Library. Designed by Maya Lin (b. 1959; B.A. 1981, M.Arch. 1986, D.F.A. 1987)

  Maya Lin’s monument-making began during her undergraduate years at Yale, with her 1981 design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Like the black wall of names cutting into the grassy Mall, the simple granite blocks of Lin’s Women’s Table organically emerge from the pavement as both a lament and a tribute. A string of figures marks the number of female students at Yale each year since its founding in 1701. These numbers grow with time as they spiral out toward the table’s edge, swelling like the rings of water that bubble from the central spring and spill over on all sides.

  Photo credit: Michael Marsland
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  Paul, John Rodman (1893-1971) is pointing out cases of Poliomyelitis in Connecticut.

  From the Yale University Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Historical Library: Bicentennial Collection.

• Jody Sindelar, center, studies the economic costs associated with alcoholism, substance abuse and smoking.  Photo credit: Robert A. Lisak
• Studies in Lyme disease have resulted in important findings.  Photo credit: Robert A. Lisak

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