How do you become one of the brightest young scientists in the country? Knowing what you want to do before you’re 10 years old doesn’t hurt — at least in Yale astronomer Marla Geha’s case.She remembers watching the launch of the first Space Shuttle from...
Ten fascinating new college courses — ranging from organic chemistry to ancient Roman architecture to the psychology and politics of food — have been added to “Open Yale Courses,” the University’s free educational initiative, available to anyone with...
The World Bank Group yesterday released a report on modernizing its governance after an external review headed by Ernesto Zedillo, the Frederick Iseman ’74 Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former president of Mexico.The...
A dramatic shift in the way Americans receive news and information, stimulated by the growing dominance of the Internet and other electronic media, is the focus of the conference “Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?” at Yale...
The least healthy breakfast cereals are those most frequently and aggressively marketed directly to children as young as age two, finds a new study from Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The researchers’ evaluation of cereal...
President Obama has declared the H1N1 outbreak a national emergency. Yale University is offering specialists in infectious diseases, emerging viruses, global health and epidemiology to speak on H1N1. They can address many aspects of this outbreak,...
Yale researchers have been awarded a $320,000 grant from The Kiev Foundation to study new ways to treat Williams Syndrome, a rare, thus far incurable chromosomal disorder that causes cardiovascular and connective tissue problems.Williams Syndrome (WS)...
Yale University today appointed Thomas G. Mattia, a former Coca-Cola Company senior executive with international public affairs, communications and social responsibility background, as its Chief Communications Officer and Special Advisor to President...
Two Yale School of Medicine physicians have been awarded a $4.1 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study a new pharmacological treatment for newly released HIV-positive inmates with alcohol dependence who are...
Soledad O’Brien, anchor and special correspondent for CNN Worldwide, will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Tuesday, November 10.O’Brien’s lecture, “Diversity in the Media: Behind the Scenes & in Our Lives,” will take...