In a pair of ceremonies on Cross Campus Monday, President Maurie McInnis and fellow Yale leaders welcomed the university’s newest undergraduate and graduate students.

In this video series, meet some of the people — scientists, staff, and patients — whose lives and work reflect the import and impact of Yale’s research across America.

Yale researchers have created a new method to predict key periods of gene activity in the developing brain — an advance that may open the door to better targeted genetic therapies.