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October 2, 2000

Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale Celebrates the 200th Anniversaries of Nat Turner and John Brown

Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition will hold a public forum on October 3 to commemorate the 200th birthdays of Nat Turner and John Brown, two of America's most controversial fighters against slavery.

September 29, 2000

Decision to Abolish Gender Testing at Sydney Olympics Supported By Yale Physician

The decision by Olympic officials to discontinue, on a trial basis, gender testing at the summer games in Sydney, Australia, was long in coming, a Yale physician says.

September 29, 2000

Yale/UConn Program Will Study the Relationship Between Clinicians and Patients

Researchers at Yale and the University of Connecticut (UConn) will study clinician/patient relationships under a new $2.8 million initiative funded by the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation.

September 28, 2000

Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, Yale to Invest $12 Million in Distance Learning Venture -- Herbert Allison to Head Effort

Oxford, Princeton, Stanford and Yale universities announced today that they would each provide $3 million to launch their "distance learning" venture to provide on-line courses in the arts and sciences to their combined 500,000 alumni.

September 27, 2000

Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center Awarded $1.2 Million in Grants From the CDC That Benefit Valley, State

The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC), an academic-community partnership that promotes research and disease prevention, has been awarded nearly $1.2 million in grants by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

September 27, 2000

Prize-winning Author Tom Wolfe to Speak at Yale

Best-selling novelist and social commentator Tom Wolfe will speak about his life as a graduate student at Yale, on Wednesday, October 11, at 4 p.m. in the Law School's Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall Street.

September 26, 2000

Yale Helps Create Online Database For Nurses Worldwide--"SKOLAR-RN" Will Focus on Bedside Care

Yale University is joining with a Stanford University start up company, SKOLAR, in creating an Internet database and search system that will enable nurses across the globe to get instant expert information on patient care.

September 26, 2000

Renaissance Technology in Optics Is Subject of Yale Lectures

Vincent Ilardi, a visiting fellow and emeritus faculty member in the history department at Yale University, will be delivering two lectures on Renaissance vision on September 28 and October 5 this fall.

September 25, 2000

Gerhard Casper Named Trustee of Yale Corporation

Former Stanford University President Gerhard Casper has been named a Successor Trustee of the Yale Corporation, the University's governing board, President Richard C. Levin announced today.

September 22, 2000

Study: Stress may cause excess abdominal fat in otherwise slender women

Non-overweight women who are vulnerable to the effects of stress are more likely to have excess abdominal fat, according to one Yale study.