Actor-director Al Pacino will visit Yale on Friday, November 19 to conduct a master class for the Yale University Dramatic Association and attend a question-and-answer session following a screening of his film, “Looking for Richard.” Pacino’s schedule...
The answer to how RNA polymerase stays still and moves at the same time while beginning its job of copying DNA into RNA is, according to a Yale scientist: “scrunching.” Using x-ray crystallography, Professor Thomas Steitz, the Eugene Higgins Professor...
A football autographed by NFL linebacker Pepper Johnson and a week’s lodging in London are among the items to be auctioned Friday, November 19 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Yale School of Medicine’s Seventh Annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction. “The...
The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies is hosting a symposium on Friday, November 12 to mark the 20th anniversary of a watershed climate report by the National Academy of Sciences that first identified the human contribution to global...
Heart attack sufferers can benefit as much from taking one aspirin a day after their trauma as from taking aspirin along with a powerful anti-clotting drug, a Yale study shows. The study, one of the largest of its kind, appears to settle the controversy...
The Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES) today announced the launch of its Y50K Entrepreneurship Competition. The business plan competition, to be held in April, will award winners a total of $50,000 in cash and other prizes, including professional...
“Lonesome George,” the only remaining male of a subspecies of the giant Galapagos tortoise, may be turning up his nose at potential mates on nearby islands because the females most closely related to him are on an island 200 miles away, say Yale...
Yale Associate Professor of Nursing Courtney Lyder, a nationally recognized expert on minority aging, will be inducted Nov. 20 as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing. The event will take place at the academy’s annual meeting in Virginia. Lyder...
The first class of managers from Yale University and the city of New Haven to attend a Yale-sponsored Management Training Institute will graduate October 29. During a graduate ceremony hosted by Yale Vice President and Secretary Linda K. Lorimer and...
Science and art, two spheres that normally operate in isolation from one another, are coming together in a unique series of lectures at the Yale Art Gallery. The three-part series, “Scientists on Art,” features scientists from the Yale community who...