President Richard C. Levin today named Graduate School Dean Peter Salovey as dean of Yale College and Jon Butler, chair of the History Department, as dean of the Graduate School. “It gives me very great pleasure to announce the appointment of two...
W. Jack Cunningham, 86, professor emeritus and the former chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University, died at his home in Hamden, Conn., on January 7, 2004, after an illness of several months. A specialist in the areas of...
Christopher Shays, Republican congressman from Connecticut’s fourth district, will discuss “Congressional Perspectives on the Environment and the 2004 Elections” on Thursday, February 19 at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, 205 Prospect St. Shays is vice...
Yale scientists have identified a mosquito smell receptor that specifically detects a chemical component of human sweat, a finding that may provide the basis for developing insect repellants for humans or for agricultural crops. Every year more than a...
John Podesta, chief of staff for former President Bill Clinton, will discuss “The Environment as a Part of Democratic Political Strategy” on Thursday, February 12 at noon in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental...
Results of a search for the most important biomedical research papers of the past year, published in any source, were announced in the December 20, 2003 issue of THE LANCET. Many notable awards, including the Nobels and Lasker, recognize the...
In this issue of Science, researchers at Yale University and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto report that curcumin, a compound in the spice turmeric, corrects the defect of cystic fibrosis in mice. Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a debilitating and...
A gift of two semi-automatic, external defibrillators was made to Yale University Faculty of Engineering and Athletics by Defibtech, LLC of Guilford, Connecticut, highlighting the relationship between Yale and a lifesaving innovation by two of its...
Csaba Horváth, The Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical Engineering at Yale, a leading researcher in modern chromatography, which impacts almost all branches of medicine, science and technology, died on April 13 in New Haven. He was 74. During his...
Yale scientists have identified a mosquito smell receptor that specifically detects a chemical component of human sweat, a finding that may provide the basis for developing insect repellants for humans or for agricultural crops. Every year more than a...