Commonly recommended exercise stress testing for older persons may deter many of them from participating in highly beneficial exercise programs, Yale researchers report. After weighing the benefits and risks of exercise among older persons, Thomas Gill...
People with mental conditions are 25 percent more likely to use alternative or complementary treatments than those without such disorders, a Yale research team has found. And among those who used alternative treatments for mental conditions, herbal...
A Yale research team led by Richard P. Lifton, M.D., professor of genetics, medicine, and molecular biophysics and biochemistry, has identified the molecular cause of an inherited form of hypertension in pregnant women. “We investigated a family with...
Visitors can watch rehearsals of the American Sign Language (ASL) translation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”-a collaboration of mime, dance, body movement and facial expression, all without sound. Rehearsals are taking place Monday through Friday from...
Two Yale faculty members, David Bromwich and R.W.B. Lewis (emeritus), were recently honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for their literary achievements. Bromwich, the Bird White Housum Professor of English and director of the Whitney...
Gay Story Hamilton, chair of the Council of Elders of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut, recently was named to the board of directors of the Endangered Language Fund at Yale University. Hamilton is involved in her tribe’s effort at reviving its language...
A group of distinguished Asian scholars who work in the field of American Studies and law have come to Yale to learn about their subject first hand. The 18 scholars from Beijing, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and...
The first of the Yale School of Architecture’s Fall 2000 Exhibition series, which has its opening reception on September 6, will showcase more than the exhibition itself. The newly renovated Second Floor Gallery in the Yale Art & Architecture...
Yale University announced today the appointment of Paul A. Fleury as the University’s next dean of engineering, succeeding D. Allan Bromley, who stepped down on June 30. Fleury, most recently the dean of engineering at the University of New Mexico, is...
Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale University, has been made a Commander, Order of the British Empire (CBE). Kennedy’s lifetime achievement of “services to contemporary...