Barry L. Zaret, M.D., chief of Yale cardiovascular medicine, has named Carl S. Feen chairman of the board for The Yale Cardiovascular Research Fund. “Feen’s lifelong commitment to service to others is now extending into health care, specifically...
The majority of low birth weight infants show improvements over time in verbal and IQ scores, Yale researchers report in the February 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. “These are among the first results to show that the...
Twenty percent of people with epilepsy will eventually develop seizures that are resistant to medication, even if they have experienced long periods with no seizures at all, according to a study led by a Yale researcher.
The large multi-center trial...
A three-judge panel has named Adrienne Rich the 2003 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Rich’s “honesty at once ferocious and humane, her deep learning, her continuous poetic exploration and awareness of multiple selves”...
Two Yale professors are among 77 new members and nine foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions that can be accorded an American scientist or engineer. Edward H. Kaplan, the William N...
World-renowned physicist, chemist and mathematician J. Willard Gibbs will be honored with a symposium at Yale on Friday, February 28 from 1 to 5 p.m. in Davies Auditorium,15 Prospect St. The event honors Gibbs’ most important work at the 100th...
John P. Trinkaus, professor emeritus and senior research scientist in molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale University, died on February 8 at age 84. Author of the classic book “Cells into Organs: The Forces that Shape the Embryo,”...
Henry Adams-his life, work and influence-is the subject of a colloquium and two lectures by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Garry Wills at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall St., March 3-5. Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) was the great-...
The annual symposium of the Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights will be held at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., on February 27 and 28. “Global Interests and Local Needs: Striking a Balance in Post-Conflict States,” is free and...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin has announced the reappointment of Robert A.M. Stern for a second term of five years as Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. During his five-year tenure, Stern has brought major changes to the School: from...