Robert Glaser, founder and chief executive officer of RealNetworks, the recognized leader in “streaming” media products and services for the Internet, will be the next Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering. His talk, titled “The...
A one-day symposium designed to educate health-care professionals about clinical and molecular advances in blood and marrow transplants will be held 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St. The...
The Yale University psychiatry department’s new PRIME Research Clinic – short for Prevention through Risk Identification, Management and Education – is revolutionary in its focus on the early identification and prevention of schizophrenia and other...
The discovery nearly two decades ago of naturally occurring ribonucleic acid (RNA) enzymes earned Yale biochemist Sidney Altman and University of Colorado researcher Thomas Cech the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In separate experiments, Altman and...
A newly released study of health risks from radon in Connecticut’s drinking water supplies concludes that such exposure poses a minimal threat to public health, primarily by increasing overall exposure slightly when radon in the water is released into...
Nine Yale School of Medicine researchers have been awarded research grants from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). Two of the Yale researchers – George R. Heninger, M.D., professor of psychiatry, and Robert H...
Long before the “Starr Report” and alleged presidential perjury were the topic of the day, Yale pediatric oncologist Dr. Diane Komp decided to explore the issue of lying: why people do it and whether lies are ever justified. Her just-published book...
In 1899, the New Haven Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) held its first general meeting on the Yale campus, where the institute will celebrate its centennial year in coming weeks with a number of talks by Yale faculty members and...
Yale University researchers have discovered what appears to be evidence of worm-like animals in rocks that are more than 1 billion years old – about twice as old as any other evidence for multicellular life yet discovered. These findings, published in...
To test your own prejudices, click on www.yale.edu/implicit/. New Haven, Conn. – The pervasiveness of prejudice, which affects 90 to 95 percent of people, was demonstrated today in a Seattle news conference at the University of Washington by...