Three Yale seniors received the Robert E. Lewis Award during Senior Class Day exercises on May 26. The award is presented each year to the senior (or seniors) who has shown commitment and high ideals as a participant in intramural sports. The awards...
Six Yale College seniors were awarded prizes for superior academic work in their fields of study during Senior Class Day exercises on May 26. Richard Brodhead, dean of Yale College, presented the awards during the ceremony on Old Campus. The names of...
Yale Chemistry Professor David Austin has received a $100,000 research award from the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance to study tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a genetic disorder that leads to tumor growth in multiple organs, including the brain, kidneys,...
A pain reliever traditionally used for post-operative pain, when diluted and given through an epidural, provides pain relief during labor and delivery without the uncomfortable numbness that makes it difficult for women to push or feel the baby emerge, a...
By identifying a genetic mutation that causes extremely high bone density in people, Yale researchers have found a potential target for the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis, it was reported Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The...
Adam S. Rein, a Yale College junior majoring in ethics, politics and economics, was named one of three winners of the Pamela Harriman Foreign Service Fellowships for 2002. Rein, of Santa Monica, CA, will serve as a Fellow at the U.S. Embassy in London....
Yale University’s 301st Commencement events will be held Sunday, May 26, and Monday, May 27, on the Yale campus. All media members must obtain and display Yale media credentials during Class Day (Sunday) and Commencement (Monday) ceremonies on Old...
Yale College senior Laura McCargar will receive the Yale Club of New Haven’s second annual Richard Hegel Prize for her senior essay that focuses on public housing in the community. A team of faculty judges selected McCargar’s essay – “HOPE for...
Three Yale College seniors were awarded prizes for superior academic work in their fields of study during their four years at Yale. Thomas Lewis Hamaguchi Hocker, of San Jose, CA, has won a Winston Churchill Foundation Scholarship, one of only 11 given...
A Yale University researcher in a NASA-funded study has discovered that tiny airborne particles of pollution may modify developing thunderclouds by increasing the quantity and reducing the size of ice crystals within them. These modifications may affect...