A one-year pilot program on “Area Studies and the Interaction Between the Local and the Global” is being launched this year by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies YCIAS , thanks to a grant from the Ford Foundation. Yale was one of 30...
A recent press release announcing this year’s Yale Divinity School Coffin-Forsberg Fellows misstated the professional title of one of the award recipients. Thomas Ficklin is CEO and editor-in-chief of “Inner City,” a weekly newspaper focusing on the...
1. Smaller, Faster, Cheaper Computers Likely with Organic Transistors 2. U.S. Youths Feel Invulnerable to AIDS, New MTV-Yale Study Reveals 3. “Not By Chance” Report Aims at Improving Child Care by Year 2010 4. Next Generation of Environmental...
87 percent of people ages 12 to 34 feel invulnerable to AIDS virus; more than half say media messages on health risks are inadequate New Haven, CT – Nearly 9 out of 10 young people (87 percent) believe they are invulnerable to getting the AIDS virus,...
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States, made its debut today by awarding grants totaling $18.6 million to support the environment, medical research and the performing arts – including a $...
Twenty-five years ago, highly visible pollution from the largest factories mobilized Americans to lobby for sweeping environmental reforms. Contaminated rivers like Ohio’s Cuyahoga River – so saturated with pollutants that it caught fire – demanded...
Daniel C. Esty, Yale professor of environmental law and policy and a former E.P.A climate-change negotiator, is available for comments on developments at the Kyoto Climate Change Negotiations, a conference in Japan being attended this week by...
Susan U. Raymond, policy programs director at the New York Academy of Sciences, will be the next speaker in the Yale-New Haven Biotechnology Enterprise Forum series. Her talk, titled “The Role of Universities in Economic Growth,” will be presented...
Peter N. Belhumeur, associate professor of electrical engineering at Yale University, has been awarded a $500,000 Presidential Early Career Award to support his research for the next five years in computer vision, robotics, face recognition, medical...
Michael P. Dombeck, chief of the USDA Forest Service since January and former acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, will speak at Yale on the role of the Forest Service in helping private landowners manage non-federal lands. The talk, which...