President Richard Levin announced Monday the selection of the 2004 Yale World Fellows. Part of a broad effort to deepen Yale’s reputation as a “global university,” the Yale World Fellows Program brings 16 to 18 early mid-career leaders to Yale each...
Yale School of Nursing faculty are developing models of care related to Type 2 diabetes, safe and healthy child care, excessive weight gain during pregnancy, and support following breast cancer therapy. The four projects are funded by the Beatrice...
Donna Diers, retired professor of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN), will discuss and read from her new book, “Speaking of Nursing: Narratives of Practice, Research, Policy and the Profession,” on May 3 at YSN. The discussion, reading and book signing...
Even small epileptic seizures can trigger widespread abnormal signals in brain networks leading to loss of consciousness, according to new findings by a Yale researcher. “We’ve known for a long time that the temporal lobe misfires during seizures,” said...
An abnormal pattern in an area of the brain that governs hearing may be an accurate method of diagnosing schizophrenia, according to a study by Yale researchers and collaborators. “These results seem to point to a cardinal abnormality in schizophrenia...
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal will deliver the Yale School of Nursing’s (YSN) annual Sybil Palmer Bellos lecture on Wednesday, April 21, at 3:30 p.m. The annual lecture provides a forum for the Yale and Greater New Haven community to...
Medical responses to major emergencies will be examined in a symposium titled, “Disaster Alert – Be Ready,” to be held Wednesday, April 21, at Yale School of Medicine. The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Harkness...
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has observed the recently discovered distant solar system object named Sedna. HST observations were intended to look for a satellite orbiting Sedna and to yield a more precise size for the planetoid by resolving it....
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) will host a symposium, “Celebrating the Contributions of Academic Midwifery,”April 29-30, and, at the same time, mark the retirement of Helen Varney Burst after 41 years of teaching and practicing midwifery. The symposium...
Lt. Gov. Jodi Rell will present “The Connecticut Treasure Award” to former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Wald, founder of the American Hospice Movement, April 19 at 12:15 p.m. “The Connecticut Treasure Award honors individuals who are the...