Yale researchers manipulated a tiny genetic switch and halted growth of aggressive lung cancer tumors in mice and even prevented tumors from forming.The activation of a single microRNA managed to neutralize the effects of two of the most notorious genes...
Award-winning British stage and screen actress Miriam Margolyes will perform her celebrated production of “Dickens’ Women” at the Yale Center for British Art.(Photo by Prudence Upton)Margolyes will portray 23 of Dickens’ best-loved characters on Wednesday...
The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity will honor two congressional champions for the reading disorder with an inaugural award recognizing extraordinary accomplishments on behalf of the one in five children and adults who are dyslexic.Dr. Sally...
An innovative Yale science course that encourages undergraduates to discover and study plant-associated organisms has been recognized by Science Magazine with the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Discovery.The magazine noted that Yale University science...
Craig MundieNOTE: Due to storm Sandy, this talk has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled at a date to be announced.Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, will come to Yale on Thursday, Nov. 1, to talk about how computer...
A performance on Friday, Nov. 2, by Las Chicas de Blanco, a critically acclaimed two-woman theater company from Argentina, will kick off a new Latin American theater series at Yale.Free and open to the public, the Spanish-language production takes place...
James Sweet, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, has won the 2012 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book, “Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World” (University of North Carolina Press).The...
When viewers around the globe tune in to CCTV America, the English-language version of the state-owned Chinese television network, for coverage of the U.S. presidential race on election night, one of the commentators they will see is Stephen Roach, a...