Microbiologist Jo Handelsman, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale, was one of 11 individuals selected by President Barack Obama on Friday to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and...
One of the world’s foremost collections of its kind, the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, housed at 15 Hillhouse Ave., regularly provides a setting for concerts of early music by prominent performers and provides audience members with an...
Joanna Waley-Cohen of New York University will deliver the first Franke Lecture at Yale on January 31 in a series focusing on the history of food and cuisine. Free and open to the public, all Franke lectures take place in Room 203 of the Whitney...
Distinguished cultural historian Gary Tomlinson will deliver the opening 2011 Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities on February 3, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. His talk, “Paleolithic Formalism and the Emergence of Music,” will...
At a time when the nation is facing a critical shortage of primary care providers (the main source of health care for most people), the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, which includes Yale’s Schools of Medicine and Nursing, has been chosen as one of five...
By now, many people know at least something about how climate change is affecting the world’s ecosystems. But what about the link between climate change and human health? Or economic opportunity? Or religion?These connections were the basis for a panel...
Tony Award-winning actor Liev Schreiber will deliver the 20th annual Maynard Mack Lecture, marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of New Haven’s Elizabethan Club, on Monday, January 31. The lecture will be presented as a conversation between the...
Triceratops and Torosaurus have long been considered the kings of the horned dinosaurs. But a new discovery traces the giants’ family tree further back in time, when a newly discovered species appears to have reigned long before its more well-known...
When the body can’t distinguish its right side from its left during development, a child can develop a condition called heterotaxy in which the heart is severely malformed, leading to congenital heart disease. To improve survival in these children,...
Researchers at Yale University and the University of Connecticut have discovered that one of the key genes in human embryonic stem cell development also enhances stem cell growth and survival — a significant finding made possible by funding from the state...