The Yale Corporation, the governing board of the University, has chosen Edward P. Bass as its next Senior Fellow. By the terms of the University’s charter, the Senior Fellow presides in the absence of the president, and also, with the president, is...
Global political-economic affairs and the challenges of leadership are the focus of the 5th India -Yale Parliamentary Leadership Program that will be held on the Yale campus, June 16 to 25, 2011.Widely recognized for educating leaders in government,...
Renowned glaucoma specialist M. Bruce Shields, M.D., the Marvin Sears Professor and Chair Emeritus of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Yale School of Medicine, will be honored June 17 with an international ophthalmology symposium as he retires after 15...
The brilliant colors of birds have inspired poets and nature lovers, but researchers at Yale University and the University of Cambridge say these existing hues represent only a fraction of what birds are capable of seeing.The findings based on study of...
The precise wiring of our visual system depends upon the pattern of spontaneous activity within the brain that occurs well before birth, a new study by Yale researchers shows.“It isn’t just the genes. What happens within the womb is crucial,” said Michael...
An estimated 20 million people in the United States suffer from peripheral neuropathy, marked by the degeneration of nerves and in some cases severe pain. There is no good treatment for the disorder and doctors can find no apparent cause in one of every...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced the establishment of The Donald Windham - Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes. The prizes, which will be administered by Yale, are funded by a significant bequest from noted American writer...
In one of the first studies to examine the reasons for the rising number of women delivering their babies by cesarean section, Yale School of Medicine researchers found that while half of the increase was attributable to a rise in repeat cesarean delivery...
Scott Strobel, the new vice president of West Campus planning and program development, recently sat down to talk about his vision for Yale’s developing 136-acre interdisciplinary research complex.What are your goals for the West Campus in the next few...
Internationally renowned diabetes researcher and clinician Dr. Robert Sherwin is the recipient of the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) 2011 Albert Renold Award.Sherwin, who has been in the forefront of diabetes research for his entire career, is the...