School of medicine

School Notes: School of Medicine
July/August 2017

Nancy J. Brown | http://medicine.yale.edu

Bringing emotional intelligence principles to Chinese schools

A $3 million gift from two Yale alumni will help establish the Yale China Fund for Emotional Intelligence, which will assist Chinese educators to incorporate principles of emotional intelligence into programs for children ages three to six. The effort will be spearheaded by Yale Child Study Center researchers Marc Brackett, Dena Simmons, Walter Gilliam, and Tong Liu. It will feature implementation of RULER, an innovative program created at Yale that helps teachers and students incorporate concepts of emotional regulation in the classroom. The Yale-China Program on Child Development has been partnering with schools in China for over six years, both traveling there to work with teachers and inviting Chinese teachers to the US to provide input on their needs and the needs of their students.

Six medical students awarded HHMI fellowships

Six School of Medicine students from the class of 2018 were selected for the 2017–18 Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) Medical Research Fellows Program. Each fellow receives $43,000 in grant support to pursue a research project for one year, beginning this summer. The fellows include: Sarah Amalraj, Tafadzwa Chaunzwa, Sunny Chung, Rebecca Fine, Jonathan Gaillard, and Nicholas Wilcox. The students were among 79 medical and veterinary students from across the country who were selected for the fellowship.

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