A love of Yale, a vision for its future
Unprecedented gifts provide funds for five professorships
Having had a remarkably wide-ranging career during which he headed companies involved in everything from small aircraft to shipbuilding to cement, Greenwich, Conn., businessman and philanthropist David W. Wallace has some difficulty arriving at a term that neatly sums up his profession. But when pressed, he finally settles on “lucky.”In a stroke of good fortune for the School of Medicine, Wallace and his wife, Jean McLean Wallace, have donated $6 million to endow two new professorships, adding...
A faster pipeline speeds new treatments from lab to patient
The flow of discoveries from the medical school’s labs to patients in need is proceeding at a blistering pace—in the...
“Teacher’s teacher” to oversee curriculum as education dean

In June, Associate Professor of Psychiatry Richard Belitsky, M.D., was named deputy dean for education at the medical...
New protein chips are a window on the womb
A rapid, reliable test to make preterm births safer for mother and child

Pediatric surgeon backs science over subjectivity in the operating room


