Yale will hold its annual Freshman Assembly on Saturday, September 2 at 10 a.m. in Woolsey Hall at the corner of College and Grove streets. Yale College’s Class of 2004 will hear addresses by Richard C. Levin, President of the University, and by Richard...
A record-high 66.3 percent of the students admitted to Yale College have chosen to matriculate in this year’s freshmen class. The 1,352 members of the Class of 2004, selected from among 12,887 applicants, will arrive on campus Friday, September 1. Yale...
Among likely voters in the New York Senate race, Democrat Hillary Clinton leads Republican Rick Lazio by 3 percent, according to an innovative survey administered by Yale faculty member John Lapinski and colleagues. If the election were held today,...
FOCUS on New Haven, a student-run organization sponsored by the Office of New Haven and State Affairs, seeks to orient rising Yale sophomores to community service and activism in the city with the goal of turning Yale students into New Haven residents....
For as long as she can remember, Emily Cherlin has been afraid to go camping, avoided basements, and even hesitated to open a window for fear of meeting a spider. “It was more the look of them than what I thought they might do to me,” says Cherlin, a...
Yale will be the lead test site for a $3.2 million national study aimed at earlier diagnosis of the leading silent killer of persons with diabetes – heart disease. The study was designed by Frans J. Th. Wackers, M.D., a professor of medicine at the...
A few carefully worded questions are the best way of spotting alcohol problems during routine medical appointments, a study by Yale researchers shows. Out of 38 studies of screening methods for alcohol problems in primary care physicians’ practices, the...
College-age women are particularly sensitive to perceived criticism about eating and weight from their mothers in forming their own eating and weight attitudes and behaviors, a study by Yale researchers shows. Male college students, on the other hand,...