President Richard C. Levin today announced the appointment of an Advisory Committee on Campus Climate. The panel will be chaired by Margaret H. Marshall ’76 J.D., the former chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and a former fellow...
To celebrate its Bicentennial, Yale School of Medicine will host some of the world’s most preeminent scientists in a two-day gathering on April 28-29. The 15 scientists, with seven Nobel laureates among them, will help define the critical issues in health...
The Yale Child Study Center continues its 100th birthday celebration with the second in a series of symposia designed to inform parents, pediatricians and primary care providers about the latest research and clinical developments affecting children.Taking...
The size and shape of the human cerebral cortex, an evolutionary marvel responsible for everything from Shakespeare’s poetry to the atomic bomb, are largely influenced by mutations in a single gene, according to a team of researchers led by the Yale...
Scientists at Yale University and in Grenoble France have succeeded in creating a movie showing the breakup of actin filaments, the thread-like structures inside cells that are crucial to their movement, maintenance and division.Actin filaments are the...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin and New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. honored 12 individuals and one group with Yale University Seton Elm-Ivy Awards at a ceremony on campus on April 27.The Elm-Ivy Awards recognize people whose leadership helps...
It can be quite jarring for a parent or caregiver to look in the rearview mirror while driving and see their child roaming around the backseat free of their safety restraints. A study on child self-unbuckling by Yale School of Medicine researchers reveals...
This weekend, members of the Yale Class of 2011 who majored in art will exhibit the senior projects they completed as requirements for graduation.The show will continue through May 2 at the Gallery of Holcombe T Green, Jr. Hall, 1156 Chapel St. A...
The Secular Student Alliance at Yale presents Jesse Bering, Director of the Institute of Cognition and culture at Queens’s University, Belfast, on the psychology of souls, destiny and religious belief in his novel “The Belief Instinct”There will be...
The new All-City Band — a collaborative venture of Yale School of Music and New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) — will make its debut performance on Tuesday, May 10, at 7 p.m. in Sprague Hall, 470 College St.The new band is one of several projects to grow out...