The Yale University Department of Astronomy is planning a series of activities — including talks, movies, exhibitions, concerts and other events — to mark the celebration of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) 2009, a global effort initiated by the...
Yale scientists and colleagues at Boston University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut have discovered genetic variants that increase the risk of paranoia in cocaine addicts and also seem to affect risk for cocaine dependence itself,...
Scientists used to think most of the exchange of information between cells was conducted at the surface, where cell receptors receive signals from other cells. Now Yale researchers report in the March 20 issue of the journal Cell how a switching station...
Yale School of Music Dean Robert Blocker has announced the alumni recipients of the first grants to advance the cause of music under the “alumniVentures” program.In the inaugural year of what Blocker hopes to be an annual program, alumniVentures received...
The public is invited both to listen and participate as three acclaimed scientists share the passion and excitement of their research in Yale’s Science Saturdays series. The presentations will be held on April 4, 11 and 18, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in...
More prominent displays may be needed to help increase consumer awareness of nutritional information in fast food restaurants, according to an observational study from Yale University that appears in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health....
Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben, who writes about global warming, alternative energy and the risks associated with human genetic engineering, will speak at Marquand Chapel of Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St., on April 3, noon–1 p.m....
Nearly $7 million in combined grants have been awarded to a researcher at the Yale School of Public Health to examine the effects of exercise on two types of cancer unique to women.Melinda L. Irwin, Ph.D., associate professor in the division of Chronic...
President Richard C. Levin has named Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, as Acting Dean of Yale Law School. Stith succeeds Harold Hongju Koh, who has been nominated by President Barack Obama as Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State....
Robert E. Rubin, secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton and economic advisor to President Obama, will deliver the Arthur M. Okun Public Policy Lecture at Yale on April 7.The lecture, titled “The Global Crisis and Decision Making,” will take...