At Yale, a New Campus Just for Research

It has been a long time since college biology meant simply dissecting frogs and squinting at paramecia under the microscope. Now the field is one of the hottest areas of competition among top universities, which are under pressure to hire big-name scientists and find space for their research.

Yale took what it hopes will be a giant step forward in that race with its announcement last month that it would buy the 136-acre campus of Bayer HealthCare, which straddles the line between West Haven and Orange, Conn., seven miles from downtown New Haven and the university’s main campus.

By KAREN W. ARENSON

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