Mike Cummings

Jan 17, 2025 | news.yale.edu | Mike Cummings

In February 1942, a 12-year-old girl escaped a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Belarus. A champion swimmer, she coated herself in goose fat and swam under ice to evade guards before fleeing into a nearby forest where she rendezvoused with her older sister, a partisan fighter. Her daring escape is recounted in “The Empty Shell of War,” a new play by Belorussian playwright, filmmaker, and dissident Andrei Kureichik based on testimonies from Yale’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.

Dec 20, 2024 | news.yale.edu | Mike Cummings

Researchers from universities across the northeastern United States recently gathered at Yale’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy to share their work examining aspects of Medicaid, a government program that roughly a fifth of all Americans rely on for access to free or low-cost health care.

Nov 27, 2024 | news.yale.edu | Mike Cummings

Academic conferences are part and parcel of campus life at Yale, but it’s not every day that one opens with a greeting from a global popstar. Such was the case when a recent conference on the social and cultural significance of Korean pop music, or K-pop, kicked off with a recorded video message from one of the genre’s biggest stars, Kim Jae-joong, a singer and songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as an original member of the popular boy band TVXQ!.

Nov 22, 2024 | news.yale.edu | Mike Cummings

Parents are much less likely to intervene when their young children are getting dressed or performing other simple chores if those tasks are framed as learning opportunities, according to a new study by Yale researchers. Media reports and academic literature suggest that overparenting — a style of parenting in which adults persistently take over tasks or solve problems that would be developmentally appropriate for children to resolve on their own — is becoming increasingly prevalent.

Nov 20, 2024 | medicalxpress.com | Mike Cummings

Friends tend to share common interests, tastes, lifestyles, and other traits, but a new Yale-led study demonstrates that similarities among buddies can also include the makeup of the microbes lining their guts. The study, published in the journal Nature, examined the relationship between the structure of people's social networks and the composition of their microbiomes—the bacteria and other microorganisms inhabiting individuals' gastrointestinal tracts.