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April 24, 2000

New Liposuction Technique for Neck and Jowls Offers More Precise Results, Yale Study Shows

A new liposuction method for the neck and jowls using several tiny incisions and a syringe is more precise and helps guard against extracting too much fat, a Yale study shows.

April 24, 2000

Nation's Top Environmental Protection Official to Speak at Yale

The top official of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Administrator Carol M. Browner, will deliver a major speech at Yale April 26.

April 19, 2000

Yale Receives $3 Million for the Study and Treatment Of Personality Disorders

Yale has received a $3 million grant from a Swiss family to study borderline personality disorder as well as other personality disorders.

April 18, 2000

Yale and New Haven Actors Celebrate Eugene O'Neill in Song

Playwright Eugene O'Neill may not be known as a song-and-dance man, but, as demonstrated by the Yale-sponsored production coming up this weekend, "Eugene O'Neill Ragtime Revue," he could be a lot of fun.

April 18, 2000

Yale to Host Conference on Sholem Asch

Yale University will host an international conference, "Sholem Asch Reconsidered," analyzing the life and work of a controversial Yiddish writer, from May 13 through 15.

April 18, 2000

Yale Professor Receives Prestigious Waterman Award from The National Science Foundation

Yale Professor Jennifer Doudna, whose leading work in structural biology provided an answer to how RNA can act like an enzyme, has been awarded the prestigious Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation.

April 14, 2000

Telemundo CEO to Visit Yale as Gordon Grand Fellow

Roland Hernandez, chair and chief executive officer of Telemundo Inc., the nation's largest Spanish-speaking television company, will visit Yale University on April 19 and 20 as a Gordon Grand Fellow.

April 14, 2000

People with Autism and Asperger Syndrome Process Faces as Objects, Yale Study of Brain Abnormalities Finds

Yale researchers have for the first time used functional MRI to study brain organization in persons with autism and Asperger Syndrome and found that they perceive faces as if they were objects.

April 12, 2000

Yale Researcher Contributes to New Report on Antioxidant Intakes From The Institute of Medicine

A Yale epidemiologist participated in an Institute of Medicine committee which has found that antioxidants' role in preventing chronic disease is still uncertain and large doses may lead to health problems rather than offer benefits.

April 12, 2000

Yale Adds 450 Acres of Forest Land to Tuomey Forest in New Hampshire

Yale University is adding 450 acres of forestland to its 1,440-acre Tuomey Forest in a picturesque area of southwestern New Hampshire.