Yale University President Richard C. Levin will give a public talk on “Democracy and the Market” at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, February 6 in the University’s Battell Chapel at the corner of Elm and College streets. Levin’s talk is part of “Democratic Vistas,” a...
Eight-year-old Hiam, a Palestinian girl who lost an eye after being shot in Gaza, is receiving a prosthetic eye work-up with help from the Yale Eye Center and Mazin Qumsiyeh, associate professor of genetics at Yale School of Medicine. According to...
Joan Steitz, the Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, is one of five recipients of the “For Women in Science Program” award from L’Oreal Beauty Company and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...
Using an innovative method called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to measure brain responsiveness, Yale researchers have found that a cocaine addict’s response to stimulation is decreased, indicating possible evidence that cocaine causes...
When VA hospitals cut inpatient psychiatric care, there is no overall reduction in effective care and clinical outcomes for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients, Yale researchers report in the February issue of 15 Medical Care. “We found no...
A homeless psychiatric patient’s race and the race of his or her case managers has no effect on the quality of mental health services the patients receive, or on their clinical outcomes, Yale researcher Robert Rosenheck, M.D. reports in a recent study...
Yale School of Medicine has established the Creed/Patton/Steele Scholarship Fund, which recognizes the importance of diversity in graduate and professional education, and honors the achievements of Courtlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, M.D., the first African...
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale will hold a symposium on the role of the humanities at Yale and in higher education, March 30 and 31 at 53 Wall St. The symposium, “Beginning with the Humanities,” is part of the celebration of the University’s...
Simon Schama, the historian who wrote and narrated the popular BBC “History of Britain” series, will give the 2001 Finzi-Contini Lecture on March 22 at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. A professor of history and art history at Columbia...
The Yale University Library and Elsevier Science announce today a year-long planning process for the creation of a digital archive for the 1,100 journals published electronically by Elsevier Science. Assuring the preservation of digital information is...