Yale University’s 299th Commencement events will be held Sunday, May 21, and Monday, May 22, on the Yale campus. All reporters and photographers must have Yale media credentials during Class Day (Sunday) and Commencement (Monday) ceremonies on Old...
A portrait of Yale graduate Yung Wing, Class of 1854, the first person from China to have graduated from an American university, was unveiled Friday afternoon at a ceremony hosted by Yale President Richard C. Levin and attended by Zhang Hongxi, Consul...
Connecticut Public Radio (CPR) will partner with the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) to produce a series of stories about programs to improve care for the elderly and people with chronic illness. This collaboration is made possible by Sound Partners, a...
The unveiling of a portrait painted by Judith Reeve of Yung Wing, the first person from China to graduate from an American university (Yale) in 1854, will take place Friday. Media coverage is limited to the unveiling ceremony only. No interviews with the...
Scientists, spiritual leaders, and conservationists, including U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, will gather at Yale May 11-14 for a conference on religion and the natural world. Stephen Kellert, professor of social ecology at the Yale...
A permanent professorship in environmental studies will be created at Yale through $4 million bequeathed by Joan Tweedy of Darien, a lifelong conservationist. Under the terms of her will, Tweedy will leave the gift to Yale to endow the Tweedy/Ordway...
Two Yale University faculty members recently were honored for their contributions to advanced practice nursing by a national nurse practitioner group. Associate Dean Barbara Safriet of Yale Law School and Associate Dean Margaret Grey of Yale University...
Yale Law School student John Leibovitz and graduate students in engineering Stephen Robinson and Stephen Brown have won the grand prize of $60,000 in cash and services in Yale’s first Y50K Entrepreneurship Competition. The students won $30,000 in cash...
While a neurotransmitter is enhancing morphine’s effects in the spine, it also is diminishing the drug’s addictive characteristics in the brain, a Yale study shows. “In the spinal cord, the neuropeptide galanin makes morphine a better pain drug. It...