In the battle against obesity, Yale University researchers may have discovered a new weapon — a naturally occurring molecule secreted by the gut that makes rats and mice less hungry after fatty meals. The findings are published in the Nov. 26 issue of the...
Huynh Sanh Thong, considered the preeminent translator of Vietnamese poetry and literature into English and the former director of the Yale Southeast Asian Refugee Project, died on Nov. 17 of sudden heart failure. He was 82 years old. Huynh dedicated much...
Yale University will open the historic Mead Visitor Center, 149 Elm St., to the public on December 4, 5–7:30 p.m. for tours and light refreshments. The Open House is being held in conjunction with the City of New Haven’s holiday festivities on the nearby...
Yale Police honored for children’s safety initiativesSafe Kids of Connecticut in sponsorship with Connecticut Children’s Hospital presented the Yale Police Department with a Child Safety Leadership Award. The honor was given for the department’s “ongoing...
Speth to give public lectureJames Gustave Speth will give a talk at the New Haven Museum next week.Speth is the Carl W. Knobloch Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of...
Hongyu Zhao honoredHongyu Zhao, professor of public health and genetics at the School of Public Health, received the 2008 Mortimer Spiegelman Award.The award recognizes researchers who make outstanding contributions in the field of health statistics.Zhao’...
Two current Yale undergraduates and a recent alumna will be studying in Britain and Ireland next year as either Rhodes or Mitchell Scholars. Jarrad M. Aguirre ’09 is among the 32 Americans selected as Rhodes Scholars for study at Oxford next year, and...
Fellow Yale rowers Bob Casey and Rich Littlehale enjoy scheming about potential business ventures, but when they became serious about forming a company to sell vitamin water — with some of the proceeds supporting health research — they realized that there...
Not long after Yale juniors Rich Littlehale and Bob Casey realized that their idea of starting a company selling vitamin water was financially unfeasible, they began thinking of a potential new venture.At a conference in Chicago last spring, Casey learned...
The University will use a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish the George M. O’Brien Kidney Center at Yale.The five-year grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases will help fund three...