At Yale University’s 307th Commencement today, eight honorary doctorates and 3,117 earned degrees were conferred, in addition to 235 that were awarded provisionally to students of the Yale Law School and 30 to students in the Physician Assistant program,...
The 2008 Yale College Teaching Prizes were presented to the following faculty.The Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities was awarded to KEITH WRIGHTSON, Randolph W. Townsend, Jr., Professor of History. The Lex Hixon ‘63...
Drug abusers who used a computer-assisted training program in addition to receiving traditional counseling stayed abstinent significantly longer than those who received counseling alone, a Yale University study has found. The findings were reported in the...
The role that gender plays at institutions of higher education throughout the world was the focus of a conference held on campus last month.The event began the day before — and was held in conjunction with — the third annual meeting of the International...
Martin Rees is Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and also Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at Leicester University. Martin...
A Yale research team has engineered a system with the potential for making the Internet work more efficiently, in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers can work cooperatively to deliver data. The way people use...
Blocking a common immune system response cleared up plaques associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and enabled treated mice to recover some lost memory, Yale University researchers report Friday in the journal Nature Medicine.Researchers hope the new...
The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded the following prizes at Commencement Convocation on May 25. The Robert E. Apfel Fellowship Award recognizes the Yale graduate student in Mechanical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering who best...
This year, for the tenth time, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honored three faculty members for their exemplary qualities as mentors. The honorees were chosen by a committee of students and faculty, in coordination the Graduate Teaching Center....
President Richard C. Levin joined former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the announcement today of the launch of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. As part of the Foundation’s efforts, Blair said he would lead a seminar at Yale beginning in the fall.“...