For minority students, simply completing a writing assignment designed to affirm a positive identity and sense of “self integrity” near the beginning of the school year raised their school performance and reduced the racial achievement gap by 40 percent,...
Thomas Gill, M.D. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that persistent bathing disability among the elderly can increase the risk of long-term nursing home admission by 77 percent, but interventions aimed at prevention and...
Douglas L. Rothman Yale will receive a $2 million High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grant from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to fund the purchase of a 7-Tesla human magnetic resonance (MR) system that will facilitate...
Farnoosh Hashemian (right) and Farahnaz Falahati (left) with Iranian children Iranian civilians exposed to high-intensity warfare and chemical weapons are experiencing significantly higher levels of psychological distress compared to...
Mark Brandon Mark Brandon, professor of geology and geophysics at Yale, is designated this year’s Kirk Bryan Award for Research Excellence from the Geological Society of America (GSA) for his work on erosion rates and their relationship...
Ancient plant remains recovered in recent Arctic Ocean sampling cores shows that during a period of carbon dioxide-induced global warming, humidity, precipitation and salinity of the ocean water altered drastically, along with elevated global and regional...
The 1,318 members of the Yale College Class of 2010, chosen from among 21,101 applicants, were welcomed to campus today.There are 660 men and 658 women among the freshmen, who represent all 50 states and 50 foreign countries. Almost one-third (31.1...
Team 10, the influential architectural group that defied Modernist dogma, is the subject of the first exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture for the academic year 2006–07.Taking place in the gallery of Yale’s landmark Art & Architecture...
HMS Dreadnought On September 21, Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale, will give a lecture at Yale on 20th-century British naval history. Titled “HMS...
Public Broadcasting System journalist Margaret Warner will moderate the closing panel of a two-day symposium at Yale University on the tensions between science and religion. All sessions will take place in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center,...