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By Brita Belli May 7, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Teens wearing virtual reality headsets in the Play4REAL Lab. For years, Dr. Asher Marks, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Program at Yale New Haven Hospital, has urged his young patients to attend support groups. Meeting with other patients is well known to improve survival ch...

By Brita Belli May 7, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Teens wearing virtual reality headsets in the Play4REAL Lab. For years, Dr. Asher Marks, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Program at Yale New Haven Hospital, has urged his young patients to attend support groups. Meeting with other patients is well known to improve survival ch...

Yale Schwarzman Center Breaks Boundaries, Opens Doors in Augmented Reality Share Article True to its aspiration to break boundaries, Yale Schwarzman Center (YSC) is inviting the world to experience its highly anticipated new spaces through the power of augmented reality. Through a partnership with the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale, YSC launches its Augmented Reality Experience At Schwarzman (AREAS) through the AREAS app available on both the Apple and Google stores. "Th...

He used it as a time to build off the department’s foundation. “The sky’s the limit,” he says. “I got here in August and I started lining up meetings and then we saw a spike in coronavirus cases. That slowed me down. But I’ve learned to work in different spaces all my life. And I was able to get an idea of what the needs are.” Smith is making the connections and setting goals for himself and the department. Some of his short-term goals include improving diversity within the colleg...

Waterville had a busy 2020, with new construction, a mayoral election and a pandemic The City Council also is expected to consider hiring a new city manager Tuesday to replace Michael Roy, who is retiring and plans to leave at the end of January. Share WATERVILLE — The year 2020 was busy as construction continued on Main Street and the Colby College campus, a new mayor was elected and officials geared up for launching an $11.2 million project to improve the downtown in 2021. Voters in Novemb...