Yale Law School has announced the recipients of the Knight Fellowships in Law for Journalists for the 2000-2001 academic year: Ashbel S. Green, a reporter for The Oregonian; Christi Parsons, a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune; and Thom Rose, a producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Yale has established The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders to further historical and comparative explorations of the frontier experience in North America and throughout the world.
Yale Professor Edward Zigler has been named the first recipient of the Early Childhood Leadership Award of the A.L. Mailman Family Foundation.
Noted economist Janet Yellen, who chaired President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, has joined the Yale Corporation as the newest alumni fellow.
Michelin Travel Publications will unveil a guide to Yale and New Haven at a press event tomorrow, June 21, at 10:30 a.m. at the Yale University Visitor Information Center, 149 Elm St.
Adding antimicrobials to consumer products such as hand lotions and soaps may not add to their effectiveness, according to Yale School of Medicine professor Myron Genel, M.D., chair of the American Medical Association's (AMA) Council on Scientific Affairs, which issued a report on antibiotics.
Combining a drug used to treat alcoholism with a drug treatment for opiate addiction may be the key to treating cocaine addicts, a Yale study finds.
Along with Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, Frederic Lawrence Holmes, the Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine and chair of Yale's History of Medicine section, was among the 47 recent inductees into the American Philosophical Society.
To combat the prevalent problem of head lice in children, a Yale pediatrician has invented a shampoo that makes the nits visible under ultraviolet lights, making for easier, more effective removal.
The College Board's campaign to offer 10 Advanced Placement classes in every high school is misguided because few of the students enrolled in expanded AP programs will receive passing scores on the exam, a Yale study shows.