What do cook stoves in Bangladesh have to do with F-15 jet fuel? Or a plant fungus discovered in the Amazonian rain forest with sustainable architecture? As the faculty who attended the West Campus Energy Symposium on Feb. 27 learned, these are just some...
With great pleasure, the Yale College Class of 2010 announces that the Commencement Class Day speaker will be President Bill Clinton, Law ‘73, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States. President Clinton will...
Robert I. White, Jr., M.D. of Yale University will travel to Buenos Aires to pave the way for the first center in Latin America to treat a rare but potentially fatal vascular disorder known as Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT). White is...
A new legislative database launched today by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University gives policy makers, journalists, advocates, researchers and concerned citizens a single online destination for current information on government...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that exposure during pregnancy to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastics, causes permanent abnormalities in the uterus of offspring, including alteration in their DNA. The findings were...
The distinguished economist Raghuram G. Rajan will deliver the 2010 Arthur M. Okun Public Policy Lecture on March 25, at Yale’s Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall (SSS), 1 Prospect Street, Room 114, from 4 to 5:30 p.m.Free and open to the public, the talk...
A new method of growing arteries could lead to a “biological bypass”—a non-invasive way to treat coronary artery disease—Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues report in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.Coronary...
Long-time Yale faculty member Jonathan Spence, one of the world’s leading experts on Chinese history and culture, has been selected by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to deliver the 2010 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.The NEH-sponsored...
A Yale-led study reveals, for the first time, the process by which a particular genetic mutation causes seizures and ataxia, the neurodegenerative disorder believed to have afflicted Abraham Lincoln. The study appears online in the Early Edition of the...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced the appointment of Rakesh Mohan as Professor in the Practice of International Economics and Finance in the Yale School of Management, and as Senior Fellow in the Jackson Institute for Global...