In the days after the 9/11 attacks, makeshift memorials began appearing around New York City, notes 2011 Divinity School graduate Judith Dupré in an essay in America.”Unlike permanent monuments that are built to outlast the people who built them,...
A Yale team headed by Professor Laura Wexler has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to design an interactive website to display some 160,000 Depression-era images taken by U.S. government photographers.The grant is the first made to...
The Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University has launched a new website aimed at helping parents navigate through the complex issues of school food. The new website, Rudd SPARK — Supporting Parent Advocates with Resources and Knowledge...
In a recognition of the excellence of scientific inquiry in Yale’s chemistry department, three Yale professors have been named recipients of national 2012 awards from the American Chemical Society.“These awards from the American Chemical Society inspire...
The communities of Yale and New Haven will join together to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11/01, and the University has also organized two exhibitions related to the tragic events of that day.Among the activities planned by Yale, local...
A center to train the public health workforce in Connecticut and Rhode Island will be established at the Yale School of Public Health, thanks to a new $2.6 million federal grant. The center will focus on helping workers learn the best ways to address...
A $25,000 pilot award from the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI) to develop a device that enables surgery to be performed with a single or even no external incision has been leveraged into nearly a million dollars in funding. The device, based...
A new study puts an end to the longstanding debate about how archaic birds went extinct, suggesting they were virtually wiped out by the same meteorite impact that put an end to dinosaurs 65 million years ago.For decades, scientists have debated whether...
If the brain goes hungry, Twinkies look a lot better, a study led by researchers at Yale University and the University of Southern California has found.Brain imaging scans show that when glucose levels drop, an area of the brain known to regulate emotions...