Yale Law School has received a $735,000 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to support the creation of the Kauffman Program in Law, Economics and Entrepreneurship.The grant names Yale Law Professor George L. Priest as a Kauffman Distinguished...
The Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP) will present a fully staged production of the 17th-century Italian opera “La finta pazza” (“the make-believe madwoman”) by Francesco Sacrati (1605–1650) in two performances, on April 23 at 8 p.m. and April 24 at 5 p.m...
Babies who sleep on their backs are less likely to die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), yet a quarter of all babies, especially those of African-American descent, are not placed on their backs to sleep. In a new study, researchers at Yale School...
Efforts to curb childhood obesity through school vending machine restrictions and making soft drinks more expensive with low levels of additional taxation have had a negligible effect, to date, on the waistline of America’s youth, a new study led by the...
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, whose novel “Things Fall Apart” is the most widely read book in African literature, will speak at Yale on April 14, as a guest of the Chubb Fellowship.Free and open to the public, his talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the...
Michael Boyle has wanted to be an astronaut ever since he attended space camp at the age of nine. This week, the Yale senior may get one step closer to that dream when he flies aboard a specialized Boeing 727, which makes parabolic dives that allow its...
On March 13, the Yale School of Medicine sent its second medical relief team to Haiti. The focus this time was less on emergency trauma such as crush injuries, and more on the long-term medical problems that continue to plague Haiti in the aftermath of...
Yale researchers have found that services to assist with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing and walking, are needed for all older persons at the end of life, regardless of the conditions leading to their deaths. The team also found that...
The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism is co-sponsoring talks by both national and international journalists this week. All are free and open to the public.David Shipley of The New York TimesDavid Shipley, deputy editor of the The New York Times Editorial...
Throughout the yearlong debate on health care reform, the physician’s voice has largely been unheard. But now doctors have an opportunity to shape how reform efforts will translate for patients and society, maintains Cary Gross, M.D., associate professor...