This week, Yale will host more than 2,000 global health professionals, social entrepreneurs, thought-leaders and students for the world’s largest gathering of global health innovators dedicated to delivering quality medical care to underserved populations...
Imagine assembling a surgical suite in one hour that is capable of delivering life-saving care to both wounded soldiers and seriously ill civilians. That is the magic of the U.S. Army’s Deployable Rapid Assembly Shelter — or DRASH — which will be on...
In their forthcoming book, “More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty,” Yale economist Dean Karlan and his co-author Jacob Appel take the reader on a tour of the developing world, where development and behavioral...
Unite For Sight, an international organization founded by a Yale sophomore, will hold its eighth annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at the University and the Shubert Theater on Saturday and Sunday, April 16 and 17.The event will bring...
Renowned British historian Sir David Cannadine will give a lecture on the artistic pursuits of Winston Churchill at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, on Thursday, April 21, at 5:30 p.m.Cannadine’s lecture, titled “Painting as a Pastime...
President Richard C. Levin today announced the appointment of an Advisory Committee on Campus Climate. The panel will be chaired by Margaret H. Marshall ’76 J.D., the former chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and a former fellow...
To celebrate its Bicentennial, Yale School of Medicine will host some of the world’s most preeminent scientists in a two-day gathering on April 28-29. The 15 scientists, with seven Nobel laureates among them, will help define the critical issues in health...
The Yale Child Study Center continues its 100th birthday celebration with the second in a series of symposia designed to inform parents, pediatricians and primary care providers about the latest research and clinical developments affecting children.Taking...
The size and shape of the human cerebral cortex, an evolutionary marvel responsible for everything from Shakespeare’s poetry to the atomic bomb, are largely influenced by mutations in a single gene, according to a team of researchers led by the Yale...
Scientists at Yale University and in Grenoble France have succeeded in creating a movie showing the breakup of actin filaments, the thread-like structures inside cells that are crucial to their movement, maintenance and division.Actin filaments are the...