By examining the type of rock in which dinosaur fossils were embedded, an often unappreciated part of the remains, scientists have determined that different species of North American dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period 65 million years ago occupied...
This fall, the Yale World Fellows Program will launch a year-long series of public events that will explore what it means to be a citizen in today’s interconnected world.Capitalizing on the Yale World Fellows’ broad fields of expertise and multinational...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that new disease pathways involving more than one cell type leads to Type 1 Gaucher disease, a rare genetic disorder in which fatty substances called glycosphingolipids accumulate in cells, resulting in...
November 3 will be Doonesbury Day at Yale, when Garry Trudeau (B.A., 1970, M.F.A. 1973) returns to the campus where Bull Tales, the prototype for the satirical strip, first leapt from his imagination onto the pages of the Yale Daily News.The celebration...
Throughout the recent dispute with Peru over objects removed from Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham almost 100 years ago, Yale has made it clear that it is willing to negotiate an amicable resolution with the Government of Peru. To that end, in September 2007...
The gallery at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., will exhibit works on paper by American artist William Bailey from Nov. 8 through Jan. 28, 2011. Bailey was a professor of art at Yale from 1969 to 1995. The exhibition of temperas, drawings and...
Legendary songwriter, artist and activist, Patti Smith will be at Yale for two separate evening events sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center: On Nov. 3, she will introduce a screening of the film “Patti Smith: Dream of Life” (2008). Following the...
Native American alumni of Yale from across the nation will converge on the Yale campus on November 5 for a three-day celebration marking the centennial of the graduation of Henry Roe Cloud, who is believed to be the first Native American to earn a Yale...
Thirty years after it was given a name, the epidemic of AIDS and its related illnesses continues to kill millions of people around the world. But nowhere are the numbers as high today as in sub-Saharan Africa, and in particular, the nation of South Africa...
In the latest of the “Pink” events marking October as National Breast Cancer Awareness month, members of the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation put pink casts on patients last Friday. Here, 13-year old Jerrell Brodie...