Menachem Elimelech Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can kill bacteria like the common pathogen E. coli by severely damaging their cell walls, according to a recent report from Yale researchers in the...
A summer of learning and discovery will culminate with presentations Friday August 24 at 12:30 p.m. by 20 students participating in the fifth annual “Discovery to Cure” high school internship program at Yale School of Medicine, 315 Cedar Street, Room 110....
It is not just what’s in your genes, it’s how you turn them on that accounts for the difference between species — at least in yeast — according to a report by Yale researchers in this week’s issue of Science.“We’ve known for a while that the protein...
Chronically ill older persons frequently refuse medical and surgical interventions recommended by their physicians, according to a recent study by Yale School of Medicine researchers. The study suggests that physicians continue to recommend invasive or...
Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. Compared with their counterparts a decade ago, today’s heart attack patients are receiving emergency angioplasty or clot-busting drugs to re-open clogged arteries at a far greater...
Mega-merger in space. Rectangles show the four galaxies and the plume of tossed-out stars; the square shows another galaxy in the cluster, and the ellipse shows the extent of the “plume” or diffuse stars not visible in this image....
Political activist and best-selling author Gloria Steinem will visit Yale as a Chubb Fellow on September 26.She will deliver a free, public address at 4:30 p.m. in the United Church on the Green, 270 Temple St. Steinem has been an outspoken leader of the...
A new home in New Haven for a disabled war veteran and her family, designed and built by first year students of the Yale School of Architecture, will be dedicated at 33 Kossuth Street, on September 17, 5:30 p.m. Rendering of the...
Yale University will host an international conference on October 20 and 21 celebrating the life and work of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai.The conference, “Poetics and Politics in Yehuda Amichai’s World,” is free and open to the public. Sessions will take...
Exhibitions, lectures, discussions and other programs addressing issues ranging from suburban sprawl to the nature of sacred spaces, to writing about architecture are some of the highlights available to the public in the coming academic term at the Yale...