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2021 Issue 167

Features

Photo essay: Metamorphosis

A series of four photoshoots—one dating to 2019; the remainder taken during the pandemic—show the contrast of life on campus.

  • A place of pride for pathology labs

    Their expertise with procedures and tests made Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology faculty indispensable to the development and rollout of reliable, safe, and effective COVID tests. A critical component to public health efforts to combat the pandemic, the tests have become a ubiquitous part of life.

  • Lessons from COVID-19

    Although the outbreak of SARS-COVID-19 fell heavily on the world in early 2020, researchers and clinicians at Yale School of Medicine acted swiftly to respond to the threat. Some of the school’s leaders discussed lessons they learned from organizing and executing that response.

  • No shortcut to success

    With the bulk of human science dedicated to understanding COVID-19 and designing a vaccine against it, a normally lengthy process was cut from years to months.

  • Keeping air free of COVID

    Sanitizing air and surfaces has always been a top priority for doctors and research laboratories. Environmental Health and Safety technicians had a significant if quiet role to play behind the scenes when COVID-19 struck.

  • Not an academic question

    Yale School of Medicine students encountered a shifting curriculum and new ways of learning as the school made changes to blunt the impact of COVID-19.

  • A year-long homework assignment

    The pandemic changed many aspects of people’s lives, including working at home for an indefinite period of time. Students, faculty, and staff described benefits from the change, while lamenting what had been lost.

  • Photo essay: Faces of the Pandemic

    Faces of the Pandemic is an ongoing portrait photography project documenting the experiences of essential health care workers throughout the pandemic—an unprecedented time for Yale’s medical community, the nation, and the world. It is meant to show appreciation for these individuals and provide..

  • Shedding new light on an underacknowledged epidemic

    HIV/AIDS took years to reach the public’s consciousness and had to overcome political and cultural hurdles along the way. An exhibit at the Yale School of Medicine from the Program for Art in Public Spaces highlights Yale’s leading role in raising awareness of the disease.

  • Catching a dream

    After nearly three decades guiding students through the Yale School of Medicine and into the next phase of their careers, Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nancy Angoff is stepping down. How she reached the position in the first place is a story all its own.

News

  • A reunion to remember

    YSM’s 2021 reunion occurred virtually, honoring the connections that classmates and alumni built over years and decades in spite of the pandemic.

  • A coup for comparative medicine

    An old strain of mouse virus becomes key for COVID-19 research in Yale School of Medicine's department of comparative medicine.

  • Prisoners of broken systems

    Yale researchers are studying the systemic failures that make for unequal health care in prisons within and outside the United States.

People

Dialogue

  • The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom

    In "The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom," Lydia Dugdale, a former professor at YSM and director of Columbia University's Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, talks about ways to confront sickness and death.

  • A unified response

    News of a deadly new virus spreading in China grabbed world headlines in January 2020, just as Nancy J. Brown, MD, the Jean and David W.

  • You have to have empathy

    One characteristic of the experience with COVID in 2020 was the spontaneous outpouring of anger and outrage over systemic injustice in the U.S. At YSM, Darin Latimore has been coordinating efforts to achieve equity for all students, staff, faculty, and patients at the institutional level.