YSM DEI News

In an excerpt from the book "Conscious Accountability" YCSC Associate Research Scientist Daryn David and her co-authors argue for looking beyond blame and punishment and embracing a form of accountability based on clear communication and mutual trust.

The first in a two-part Q&A series with Daryn David and Linda Mayes.

The Yale Black Postdoctoral Association reveal their banner series showcasing members of the association alongside personal quotes unique to their experiences as being traditionally underrepresented in science.

Three faculty in the Yale Department of Psychiatry have been elected to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science & Engineering (CASE). Nii Addy, PhD, Albert E. Kent Associate Professor of Psychiatry and associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology; Laura Huckins, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry; and Ismene Petrakis, MD, professor of psychiatry, will be recognized at CASE’s 48th annual meeting this spring.

Nii Addy, PhD, Albert E. Kent Associate Professor of Psychiatry and associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology, and Ashley Clayton, MA, a research associate at the Family Violence Research Program in The Sullivan Lab, were recent guests on WHYY's "The Connection" talking about depression and stigma.

East Hartford, CT —The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) announces the election of 35 of Connecticut’s leading experts in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine to membership in the Academy. The new members will be introduced at the Academy’s 48th Annual Meeting and Dinner to be held at the Woodwinds in Branford on May 24, 2023.

Efforts to expand diversity, equity, and inclusion at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center emanate from Eric P. Winer, MD, Director of Yale Cancer Center and Physician-in-Chief of the Smilow Cancer Network and extend throughout the enterprise.

Bobbi Wilson, 9, was honored by Yale University on Jan. 20, 2023, for her efforts in eradicating the invasive spotted lanternfly in her hometown of Caldwell, New Jersey. University officials also recognized Bobbi’s donation of her personal collection of spotted lanternfly specimens to Yale’s Peabody Museum. The collection, which was officially entered into the museum’s database, will be forever associated with Bobbi’s name as the donor scientist.

With the attack on universities and healthcare workers continuing in Iran, and peaceful protests being met with live ammunition and mass arrests, YSM community members, several of who are Iranian-American, felt compelled to speak out once again.