Jordi Casals-Ariet, M.D., a renowned Yale epidemiologist who clarified the relationship between viruses that cause central nervous system disease, died on February 10, 2004 at age 92 in New York City. Casals spent much of his academic life studying the...
Yale researchers have found a major decrease in the effectiveness of varicella (chicken pox) vaccine after the first year of vaccination, but the vaccine is still very effective overall. “The effectiveness of the varicella vaccine does drop...
Researchers at Yale have found that decreased activity in muscle mitochondria, the powerhouses of the cell, may be a major factor in the development of type 2 diabetes in young, lean offspring of parents with the disease. They demonstrated a potential...
Yale researchers have reported promising preliminary results of a Phase Ib/IIa study in women with recurrent ovarian cancer using phenoxodiol, an experimental anti-cancer drug that could kill cancer cells and increase effectiveness of standard...
President Richard C. Levin today named Graduate School Dean Peter Salovey as dean of Yale College and Jon Butler, chair of the History Department, as dean of the Graduate School. “It gives me very great pleasure to announce the appointment of two...
Yale University Dean Peter Salovey has announced a significant increase in financial aid for doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale. The nine-month stipend for both entering and continuing students in the humanities and...
Louise Glück, poet laureate of the United States and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will be the next Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence in Yale College, Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead has announced. As such, Glück will teach courses and workshops...
At the meetings of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., in January, two Yale faculty members, Timothy Snyder and Peter Gay received, respectively, the George Louis Beer Prize for “outstanding historical writing in European...
An exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., brings to life an episode of American – and Connecticut – history that has not yet received its due attention: the unique struggle of more than 215,000 African Americans...
A symposium on city ports, a multi-media exhibition of large-scale environment-friendly architecture and a weekly lecture series featuring some of the world’s most celebrated architects, designers and planners are among the free and public offerings at...