At Yale, Harvey Cushing was a B student. Impressive, but perhaps not the GPA expected of someone who would go on to revolutionize medicine like few ever have. Yet after thriving at Harvard Medical ...

This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. “Would you like to see the brain collection?” my guide asked, as we finished our tour of the Yale School of Medicine. What scientist could resist?

NEW HAVEN — Two floors below the main level of Yale’s medical school library is a room full of brains. No, not the students. These brains, more than 500 of them, are in glass jars. They are part of an ...