“It’s kind of hard to maintain resolutions,” Jessica Nosike ’27 said. “At the beginning of the year, the holiday season, you still have the time to stay consistent, but then once you get into the real world, there’s less time.” 

Nosike isn’t alone in her sentiments. Last year, Baylor College of Medicine reported that 88 percent of individuals who set resolutions fail to make progress on them, many of whom eventually give up altogether within the first two weeks of January. The occurrence is so common that it’s given rise to what is colloquially known as “Quitter’s Day,” the second Friday of January and the day by which most goal-setters, whether due to willpower or time constraints, are surmised to have given up.

To get to the bottom of the failed-resolution-phenomenon, the News reached out to a number of Yale psychologists and behavioral scientists. Four researchers wrote to the News to provide suggestions as to how people may improve their goal maintenance.

“Psychologically, the beginning of a new year represents a powerful temporal landmark — a point in time that signifies what researchers have called a fresh start moment,” wrote Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology. “To turn New Year’s resolutions into lasting sources of happiness, it’s important to focus not just on the outcome (e.g., get fitter, career success) but also on the process and how those changes align with your deeper values and well-being.” 

Santos is well-versed in the subject of holistic well-being. In addition to teaching the most popular class in Yale’s history, “Psychology and the Good Life,” she serves as director of both the Yale Comparative Cognition Laboratory and the Yale Canine Cognition Lab. Beyond her academic faculties, Santos hosts The Happiness Lab podcast where, as the name suggests, she discusses scientific research on tools to promote happiness.

Of course, building new habits can prove difficult. Santos offered some practical advice for tackling challenges that arise along the way.

“When things don’t go as planned, being kind to yourself and acknowledging that setbacks are normal is key to maintaining motivation,” she wrote. “Research shows that people who practice self-compassion are more resilient and better at maintaining long-term goals because they don’t give up when they encounter obstacles.”

Determination through setbacks can make all the difference in forming lasting habits. However, sustaining initial progress requires a steady approach.

One Yale psychologist noted that consistency, while demanding, can be a relatively intuitive process.

“Only make resolutions you are committed to keeping, and then make a daily routine that includes them so they become second nature. It isn’t easy but it is easier than most people think,” advised John Bargh, a professor of psychology and cognitive science.

Focusing on actions, rather than just outcomes, helps maintain momentum. By embracing the journey of achieving a resolution, individuals can stay engaged, even when progress feels slow.

Finding a deeper sense of meaning in the goals can also make them more motivating and sustainable.

“Too often, we chase goals that even when achieved do not make us happy,” wrote James Floman, an associate research scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. 

Floman studies emotional regulation and well-being in addition to developing mindfulness techniques for educators. These techniques, he noted, can be an effective way to encourage and materialize self-growth.

Even making time for a simple day-to-day activity can be impactful. Defining mindfulness as a focus on the present with “open, curious, nonjudgmental awareness,” Floman explained how it can relate to accomplishing resolutions or other goals in unexpected ways.

“For those who have a consistent mindfulness practice (e.g., taking regular mindful walks, daily meditation or yoga), one of the primary benefits is people begin to notice recurring patterns in their thinking, emotions and behavior,” Floman wrote. “Over time, mindfulness practitioners come to understand both what truly is most important to them versus more peripheral, and specifically how they get in their own way when trying to realize their goals or potential. This means that practicing mindfulness can arm people with richer and more accurate data on what makes them happy and what helps them thrive.” 

All is not lost for those who have found difficulty in cultivating their resolutions to fruition. Mindfulness tactics have the ability to help goal-setters get back on track. 

David Klemanski, assistant professor of psychiatry, weighed in on how individuals can rely on emotional regulation to succeed, even when maintaining an objective proves harder than expected. Among many other titles, Klemanski serves as the director of psychological assessment service at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

“Setbacks are a natural part of any journey, but mindfulness helps us reframe them as opportunities for growth rather than reasons to quit,” he noted. “When frustration arises, mindfulness teaches us to pause and observe our feelings without judgment. This creates space to respond thoughtfully instead of reacting impulsively — choosing to adjust our plans or simply rest and try again tomorrow.”

As individuals reflect on their progress, they may realize that challenges can ultimately lead better strategies for the future. For students like Nosike, who aim to invest more effort into friendships, hobbies and reducing screen time, the commitment of maintaining resolutions might not always be smooth amidst classes and extracurriculars. However, it’s through navigating these obstacles, as Yale experts suggest, that one’s values and their potential to thrive become clearer.

Quitter’s Day fell most recently on Jan. 10, 2025.

The post Maintaining New Year’s resolutions: Yale researchers offer advice appeared first on Yale Daily News.

Soon after committing to Yale, Brinker joined Yale First Generation/Low Income, or YFLI, an affinity group within the School of Medicine that provides a network of resources and guidance for students from underprivileged backgrounds or those who are the first in their families to pursue a four-year college degree.

Within his first few days at the School of Medicine, Javier Sanchez MED ’27 met Brinker, and she invited him to join her in attendance of YFLI programming. 

“The group of leaders and the members of YFLI were very helpful in my integration within the first month. I mean, it was the one affinity group that met every other week, and that left such a huge impression on me,” Sanchez said.

Both students became hooked on the group. Brinker served as co-president of YFLI alongside Linda Lin GRD ’30 throughout 2023, and Sanchez currently acts as mentorship coordinator. With this newer leadership, YFLI, which was first conceived in 2017 by Mytien Nguyen MED ’26 and Seong Im Hong MED ’21, has continued to carry with it an ethos of inclusivity.

This past August, in collaboration with Dean Marietta Vazquez and the School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity, Inclusion, Community Engagement and Equity, YFLI hosted a half-day orientation for medical students identifying with the FGLI community — a feat that hadn’t been previously accomplished. The event, spearheaded by Vazquez and Sanchez, included a panel with medical students, residents and faculty who identify as FGLI, conversation around an article by the Association of American Medical Colleges on professional support for FGLI medical students, reflective writing and small group exercises to help participants identify their personal values.

“We really wanted to create an inclusive space to show students that they already come in with a lot of tools under their belt, rather than focusing on what they lack,” Sanchez explained. 

He noted that the goal of the orientation was to wholeheartedly empower students as members of the School of Medicine community.

Sanchez also reflected on the resources available through the School of Medicine, which benefit all medical students, but most especially those who identify as FGLI and may desire additional support.

“A big part of medical school is acknowledging and understanding and really embodying a lot of the ‘hidden curriculum’—the expectations that are present from day zero,” Sanchez said. “One program the school offers to help with this is the Longitudinal Coach Program.”

The Longitudinal Coach Program, introduced with the class of 2027 and extended to subsequent classes, pairs every medical student with a faculty member who provides support throughout their education. The pairings help students achieve their personal milestones and navigate the challenges of medical training. The program is now embedded in the curriculum and exists alongside the First-Generation Low-Income Longitudinal Mentorship Program, a similar initiative created in 2023 by Dr. Jaime Cavallo, assistant professor of urology, who herself identifies as FGLI and advises YFLI.

Following the success of the orientation and current support mechanisms, YFLI plans to expand its programming. Lin continues to build on the group’s momentum, even after her leadership tenure.

“When Morgan and I were co-presidents, two medical students from Case Western [Reserve University] reached out to us about collaborating on a national conference for first-generation, low-income medical students,” she recalled.

Now in its early stages, Lin is leading the coordination of the conference, which is expected to be held in a hybrid format to allow participation from both Yale and Case Western students. The group hopes to expand its reach, potentially including undergraduates on a medical track, enrolled medical students and even doctors from institutions across the country.

In addition to her work with YFLI, Brinker is on a task force at the School of Medicine that addresses food insecurity and other unmet basic needs, with which she works to ensure that students facing economic hardship have greater access to nutrition through Cafe Med, the food bar at the School of Medicine.

Brinker’s leadership on this initiative is deeply connected to her own experiences as an FGLI individual in medical school. She recognizes how financial challenges shape her perspective, both in the classroom and in clinical practice.

“Because of my background, I have been able to think about insurance more critically. I understand premiums and deductibles because I have had to personally deal with them, regarding myself and my family, whereas other students may not have had that experience,” she said. “It made me feel like a kindred spirit with patients.”

Lin also shared how her background has been a benefit during her clinical activities, having used her real-world knowledge to better assist patients.

She has found workarounds to language barriers, sometimes asking patients to physically demonstrate their needs, on other occasions simplifying complex diagnoses.

 “It’s been really helpful,” she said. “For example, my parents don’t really speak English very well, and I’m very aware of that when I’m communicating with patients who also may not speak much English, or any at all.”

Lin further emphasized the importance of empathy when interacting with patients who may feel insecure about sharing personal circumstances. She aims to communicate that patients should always feel welcome to share confidential health-related information with her.

As they continue their respective medical school journeys, Brinker, Lin and Sanchez remain dedicated to improving the experience for future generations of FGLI students, their own backgrounds serving as assets to the future of healthcare. 

The Yale School of Medicine is located at 333 Cedar St.

The post First-Generation, Low-income affinity group overcomes obstacles to success at the School of Medicine appeared first on Yale Daily News.

Housed under the Dwight Hall Center for Public Service, the student group pairs roughly 50 undergraduates with residents suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. These volunteers visit patients once a week in three care facilities to offer social and emotional care. 

The group is led by co-presidents Rianna Raghunandan ’26 and Sarah Feng ’25, who help facilitate these interactions between Yale students and patients in nursing homes. 

“Our main mission is to alleviate some of the burdens that affect both the patient who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and also the nursing homes who take care of the patients,” Raghunandan said. “Nursing staff are in charge of so much medical care, but they don’t really have the time or energy to address the social withdrawal, the isolation and the loneliness that come with neurological diseases and being in a nursing home.” 

Raghunandan emphasized that Alzheimer’s disease affects a patient’s physical, social and emotional health. While many care facilities try to tend to all three facets, the visits by Alzheimer’s Buddies address the social and emotional areas integral to overall patient well-being, Raghunandan and Feng said.

Raghunandan and Feng added that they hope to bridge the gap between the isolating nature of neurological diseases and emotional care with volunteerism. For example, complexities within the healthcare system can make it difficult for individuals affected by neurodegenerative disorders to form genuine connections, Feng said. 

“Isolation can put you in a space where you don’t know how to ask for help,” Feng said. “I feel like with cognitive deficits and physical impairments, it can become worse, especially with such a big population.”

Though patients benefit from interacting with new students every week, the relationship is not one-sided, Raghunandan noted. Volunteers similarly benefit from the weekly visitations.

“There are not a lot of spaces currently where we can just kind of engage one-on-one with an older person,” Raghunandan said. “Volunteers can choose to repeat volunteering sessions with the same buddy, so it is interesting to keep building on these relationships.”

Volunteers don’t just chat with patients about their days and what they have done since their previous visit. Instead, they try to stimulate patients’ memories, delve further into residents’ stories and learn more about their lives. 

The Looking Glass Project, one of Alzhimer’s Buddies’ ongoing initiatives, seeks to document and memorialize the lived histories of patients with memory loss. Volunteers ask patients probing questions to learn more about their biographies. They also interview patients’ family members to corroborate the information. Ultimately, Feng said, they hope to commemorate patients by developing narratives of their lives. 

“Through the Looking Glass Project, we’re exploring and doing a deep dive into people’s lives — interviewing the patient and people around them to build a life biography through a journalistic point of view,” Feng said. “Even if they can’t exactly remember all of the details, it’s a way to celebrate them.” 

The Looking Glass Project was initially launched in 2023 by Jocelyn Ra ’22, who worked as a student researcher in Alzheimer’s Disease as an undergraduate. Primarily inspired by her experiences with patients throughout her undergraduate research, as well as the storytelling in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There,” Ra sought to create an initiative that helps patients and their families navigate the disorienting nature of neurodegenerative disorders.

According to Ra, the project has a three-pronged approach, aiming to benefit patients and their families, professional caregivers and students. 

“For the patients and for the patient families, the project serves as a way for them to preserve life,” Ra said. “For memory care facility staff, it helps them get to know their patients better in ways that might not come up in normal conversation. Students can see and know that diseases are not suffered in isolation and that they’re also part of the process to destigmatize [neurodegenerative diseases] and learn more.”

Hannah Barsouk ’25 co-leads the Looking Glass Project alongside Ra. She said that the ultimate goal is to expand nationally. While Alzheimer’s Buddies at Yale is one chapter of a national organization, the Looking Glass Project’s genesis is unique to New Haven. 

“The hope is that eventually this would be a permanent part of National Alzheimer’s Buddies — starting here at Yale,” Barsouk said.

The pair is in the process of expanding the Looking Glass Project to other universities. They aspire to add more volunteers and form long-term relationships with local partnering nursing homes and care centers.

Alzheimer’s Buddies at Yale is one of 40 chapters associated with the national network.

The post Alzheimer’s Buddies continues to forge connections with nursing home residents appeared first on Yale Daily News.

The Yale Internal Medicine Residency Writers’ Workshop recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. Initially established by physician-writer Abraham Verghese as a one-off event, the workshop has gained prominence within the School of Medicine for training new doctors across specialties to hone the craft of writing.

“We teach medicine as stories,” said Lisa Sanders, the co-director of the workshop and a professor at the School of Medicine. “It’s not like medicine is just science. It’s always about that intersection between human beings, sickness or death, and science. And if you just focus on the science, you’re missing a lot.”

The Internal Medicine Residency Writers’ Workshop is open to all medical residents at Yale’s internal medicine department and other fields, including psychiatry, surgery and emergency medicine. A few months before the workshop, residents submit a 1200 maximum creative or personal essay as part of their application, said Anna Reisman, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine and the co-director of the program.

Selected participants bring those pieces to a two-day workshop where they refine and revise each others’ pieces. The residents also learn writing techniques under the guidance of the program directors, who themselves are physician-writers and creatives. Reisman is also co-director of the program for humanities in medicine, and Sanders created and authors the New York Times Magazine’s “Diagnosis” column — the inspiration for the television show House M.D.

At the end of the program, the writers read aloud their final pieces to students and faculty. Their essays are published in an online zine titled “Capsules.”

“The objective really is for us to teach the craft of writing,” said Reisman. “We teach residents who take part to learn some of the elements of writing, learn how to tell a story and learn how to write a personal essay. We talk about good verbs, writing with precision, all the basic craft lessons, and we spend time doing some writing exercises.”

This experience has proved integral for residents like Effie Johnson, a workshop participant and editor for “Capsules,” who felt tentative about her writing abilities as a medical student.

“I had a lot of impostor syndrome,” said Johnson. “The opportunity to just talk about writing, get feedback on my writing, and have the opportunity to grow is something that really attracted me. Writing is part of the way that we can solidify what is important to us, using it as motivation, especially those emotional experiences.”

Justin Dower, another resident who participated in the program, said he was also excited at the prospect of working with the workshop leaders and the other participants. Learning about the diversity of experiences that each of the new doctors wrote about, he added, was informative.

As a healthcare provider, Dower said he also believes that studying the medical humanities has improved his ability to connect with his patients.

“The humanities gives us a way to get better … by studying the experiences of writers in the past, writers in the present, learning from patients, and also other practitioners,” Dower said. “By reading what they have written, we can really get a better understanding of how to meet the people that we’re trying to serve and how to connect with them.”

The News interviewed several additional participants in the workshops, many of whom spoke about how the workshops helped them reflect on their experiences as physicians and healthcare providers. 

Morgan Goheen, an infectious diseases fellow in the School of Medicine’s division of infectious diseases who participated in the workshop, said she plans to spend most of her time as a physician-scientist in the lab. As an academic researcher, she said she hopes that improving her writing will allow her to communicate her research more effectively.

Writing has also been a tool to better connect and communicate with her patients, Goheen added. 

“It’s a way to express and appreciate what lies before me, whether it’s an individual patient or discussion of a global disease burden like malaria,” said Goheen. “Having the skills to notice and appreciate things that are affecting my day-to-day work has been an important part of letting me process and be better at working with people that are really different from me.”

Not every writer’s piece in the workshop centered around medicine. Caroline Raymond-King, for instance, wrote about her partner, their chickens and their dog.

“It’s hard in residency, but when you have a story to tell, it’s nice to have the skills to be able to write it,” Raymond-King said. “Writing really gives me the space and time to think about what I really care about.”

That space to reflect has been critical for some of the participants to reflect on challenging experiences they’ve encountered during their medical training, several told the News. In her piece for the workshop, Lara Rotter wrote about her experience treating a victim of domestic violence while still in medical school. 

Rotter said she believes that many people in the medical field harbor stigma around experiencing hardship during clinical practice. Doctors, she said, are often expected to remain emotionally unperturbed, even when encountering traumatic cases like domestic violence and abuse. 

“In medicine, we often fall into the trap of connecting professionalism with being unemotional and not encountering any difficult situations,” she said. “Often when difficult situations are encountered, we think this means we are too vulnerable or not perfect enough.” 

But through her writing, Rotter said she hopes to open up about doctors’ emotional and mental well-being as they navigate challenging patient experiences.

“We just really want to share stories to normalize things that are happening, that we all experience these things, and that we all have these difficult encounters with patients,” said Rotter.

For Matthew Morrison, an emergency medicine physician in New York City and a lecturer of medical humanities at Yale College, the quality of a physician’s writing might not even matter. Rather, he said he believes that having a creative outlet is a necessity for doctors.

“Doctors, who are occasionally ourselves human, need artistic and creative outlets for what we experience,” Morrison wrote in an email to the News. “The vast majority of us will write abominable poetry, and that is perfectly fine. But we need to remember that we are entitled to our experiences. Only a human — and not an algorithm, not a computer, not an LLM — can see the gestalt.”

The Yale Internal Medicine Residency Writers’ Workshop was established in 2003.

The post Yale Internal Medicine Residency Writers’ Workshop celebrates 20th anniversary appeared first on Yale Daily News.

With the cacophonous chatter of climate crises, energy disparities and ecological challenges, the study of environmental humanities aims to bring a humanistic touch to science. 

Hosted in the Humanities Quadrangle on Wednesday, the Yale Environmental Humanities program’s “Welcome Back Panel” featured presentations by Maria Trumpler GRD ’92, professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, and graduate students Kevin Yang ARC ’24 and Charlotte Hecht GRD ’24. This panel focused on three microhistories unfolding in the midst of humanity’s consideration of the environmental sciences. 

Paul Sabin, professor of history and American studies and director of the Yale Environmental Humanities program, expressed his gratitude for those who came to support the event before turning over to the first presenter. 

“We live in a social world and sometimes there is an impulse to reduce it to technology and economics and law, but then we have to remember that we’re human actors making choices and making these choices because of ideas and beliefs and relationships,” Sabin said. “In order to understand those things, we need the humanities, and that includes various aspects of culture that help us think about what we imagined to be the right ways to live and what the proper relationship is to the environments around us.” 

Trumpler, who received a doctorate in history of medicine and life science from Yale, has been a member of the University community since 1983. 

Now a senior lecturer in the department of women, gender and sexuality studies, many of Trumpler’s academic interests concern the historical imprint of women in science and technology. 

In Trumpler’s presentation “Handweaving, Fibersheds, and Environmental Education,” she discussed that understanding “how women engaged with things in the past” can help inform our conception of women’s lives today. 

“So for example, some people think the life of a 19th century farm woman in New England must have been constant drudgery,” Trumpler explained in her presentation. “But if you actually go back and start engaging with the tools, engaging with the irons, engaging with the fabrics, engaging with the life as much as you can, you actually see that they handled objects that are very beautiful and very sensual.”

Taking time off from the academic setting of Yale, Trumpler explored a hands-on approach to better comprehend the daily activities of 17th-century New England women in her research. Aided by grants through the Environmental Humanities program and Whitney Humanities Center, she journeyed to Vermont to make cheese, bread and clothing as early American women once did. 

Explaining that history helps people in the present to make sense of progress and current values, she chronicled some of her daily activities, including the process of spinning her own wool and making a blanket, tasks she undertook for eight hours a day. 

With this newfound insight, Trumpler said she has turned her attention to fibersheds, traditional areas in New England that were once responsible for clothing all the members of a particular community with wool and linen. 

She now dedicates her extra time to trying to convince people, and in particular, women, to be more conscious with their clothing decisions, whether that includes mending or even creating new pieces to wear from the offerings of fibersheds. In spite of her efforts, Trumpler said she has found the task to be more difficult than expected, as she noted that modern women “love the number of clothes they have in their closet.”

Regardless, Trumpler remains optimistic in her findings. 

“There’s a sense of empowerment of sensual pleasure accomplishment,” Trumpler said. “I made a blanket entirely myself from this fleece, And so I think it illuminates aspects of daily life in the past that we tend to brush over.”

Kevin Yang next discussed the details of his project, titled “New Haven, Revisited,” which he conducted with fellow architecture student Fany Kuzmova ARC ’24, with funding from the Environmental Humanities program. Inspired by the School of Architecture’s Jim Vlock First-Year Building Project, an assignment that, according to the project website, “allows professional degree students the unique chance to design and build a structure as part of their graduate education,” Yang and Kuzmova joined forces to address community development issues in New Haven.

Interested in urban renewal from the experiences of residents, the project partnered with a local high school to develop a three-part workshop on development issues, oral histories and a photo exposition, forming a “combined anthology” to represent New Haven, particularly in relation to Yale initiatives. 

The two hope to provide two deliverables with the culmination of the project, the first being a “guidebook,” or more of an architectural publication, as Yang explained, where they introduce the history of community spaces and the factors that helped support their successes. Yang and Kuzmova said they also intend to bring about an exhibition of the work they collected throughout the workshops.

Finally, Hecht presented the enlightenment she gained through reading the memoirs passed on by her great-grandfather, U.S. Navy Captain Bert F. Brown. A graduate student in American studies, Hecht is completing her dissertation, which sprung from the implications of the United States’ history of nuclear testing in different locations, including Nevada and the Marshall Islands, throughout the Cold War, and focuses more broadly on the U.S. nuclear industry. Little did she know that her own family tree also contained a surprising connection to nuclear testing.

Paging through her great-grandfather’s memoirs, she learned he was involved in nuclear tests. 

“This felt like a really crazy coincidence to me,” Hecht said. “It wasn’t something I knew about, I had no idea, and it really stuck with me as something I wanted to think about and explore, because here I was writing this dissertation about the environmental destruction, the social impacts of nuclear testing.”

As she detailed in her presentation “Unhomelike,” Hecht said she aimed to reconcile with her revelation through the humanities and a fund from the Environmental Humanities program and investigate “long legacies of brief action.” Mediating history through a personal lens, Hecht displayed images she felt were relevant to her grandfather’s story, including one of him alongside other officers and an image she took when in Utah, visiting the locations he once experienced. 

Both photographs had a distinctive blue tint, the product of cyanotype printing that she taught herself to conduct within her own home. Hecht informed the News that the pigment in the printing, Prussian Blue, when presented in the form of pills, serves as a treatment for radiation poisoning. She added that the medium she used was a gesture to the “violent history” her great-grandfather was involved in.

After the presenters concluded, the crowd adjourned for refreshments and chatter, launching into a discussion of broader issues. 

Lav Kanoi GRD ’24, the program’s graduate coordinator, told the News that there are numerous questions with strong social value, with underlying “philosophical impulses”. 

“How does one bring equity issues to alternative energy? In a sense, does the burden of environmental pollution again fall on poorer people, or poorer countries and so on and so forth? Questions like that are not really addressed from a technological perspective,” Kanoi said.  “Even in technological circles, what does one do with the new kinds of wastes that are produced as we shift to alternative energy forms and such?”

In addition to his role as graduate coordinator, Kanoi has been a graduate student at Yale since fall of 2018, studying anthropology in a joint program through the anthropology department and the School of Environment. 

Citing the creation of the Environmental Humanities program in 2017 as a contributing factor in his choice to join the Yale community, he noted the importance of adding humanistic perspectives to the environmental sciences. 

“What is my relationship to another human being to another animal to another life form? That relationship predicates so much about what I do in that interaction,” Kanoi said. “Do I cut down a tree? To do something that was planned in its place to use a part of it in so many different ways? Simplistically speaking, the Environmental Humanities allows us without a market compulsion to investigate these questions, to think freely.”

Kanoi said he hopes to see more students revel in the many coming events to be offered by the program, as detailed on their active calendar. 

Sabin later reiterated that the program, which serves as an umbrella for a number of other associated endeavors such as the Environmental Film Festival and the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, welcomes all interested students.

“Environmental Humanities is broadly open to anyone who’s interested in thinking about the intersection between humanities and the environment,” Sabin said “Think about questions of culture, social, social questions, ethics, ethical questions. Those can enrich any other fields of study that people might have. So you don’t have to be in the humanities, but rather think about the relationship of the work that you do to these broader humanistic contexts.”

The Environmental Humanities program is open to all members of the Yale community and now offers a graduate certificate in Environmental Humanities.

The post Environmental Humanities highlights importance of interdisciplinary studies in welcome back panel  appeared first on Yale Daily News.