Shayna Strom and Sunita Puri, both seniors at Yale College, have been awarded 2002 Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford University.
There is no evidence that adult primates are able to create new neurons in the neocortex, the most sophisticated part of the brain, Yale researchers have found in a study published in the December 7 issue of Science.
Two current Yale students, Jennifer Nou and Shanya Strom, and two recent alumni, Zachary Kaufman and Krishanti Vignarajah, have been named winners of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for study in a British university.
Two events taking place this coming week will finish the Yale lecture and discussion series "Democracy, Security and Justice: Perspectives on the American Future" for this term.
Yale University's annual summer sports camp, operated within the framework of the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP), will be honored at a ceremony in the nation's capital in January 2002.
Early improvements in health-related quality of life for epilepsy patients were sustained over several years of treatment with the antiepileptic drug levetiracetam, according to new research presented today by Yale School of Medicine researchers at the 55th American Epilepsy Society annual meeting.
The Yale Whitney Humanities Center has canceled "Man and Beast," a symposium scheduled for December 7-8, owing to the sudden death on December 2 of the symposium's originator, Naomi Schor.
Environmental protection programs recently enacted by the Chinese government augur well for the future of the giant panda, according to the article, "Giant Pandas in a Changing Landscape," published in the November 16 issue of Science by a Yale faculty member.
Yale neurovirology expert Anthony van den Pol and colleagues have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a virus which can lead to deafness, mental retardation and brain diseases such as epilepsy.
Naomi Schor, one of the foremost scholars of French literature and critical theory and one of the pioneer feminist theorists of her generation, died suddenly in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 2, 2001 at the age of 58.