Yale researchers have published a cellular atlas of genetic activity in rice, documenting with unprecedented detail how and when genes are turned off and on within cells of a living organism. The staggering amount of data collected during the five-year...
White people do not get as upset when confronted with racial prejudice as they think they will, a study by researchers at Yale University, York University, and the University of British Columbia suggests. This indifference helps explains why racism...
Yale University will celebrate the memory of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) with a week of special events, January 15–23, dedicated to the theme “Because of His Dream: ‘Yes, We Can.’” The events are free and open to the public. To launch...
Bud Thorpe, one of the last actors still alive to have performed under the direction of playwright Samuel Beckett, will speak out about how the Nobel Prize laureate shaped both his work and his life in the world premiere of his show “One of the Damned...
The arts have the ability to heal the soul. Medicine has the ability to heal the body. In what promises to be a remarkable event, the two disciplines will unite at Long Wharf Theatre for an in-depth exploration of Global Health and the Arts Thursday Jan....
Breaking new ground in what many surgeons consider the next frontier in minimally invasive surgery, Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital surgeon Kurt Roberts, M.D., successfully performed an appendectomy with no abdominal incision. The...
Water and energy are two resources on which modern society depends. As demands for these increase, researchers look to alternative technologies that promise both sustainability and reduced environmental impact. Engineered osmosis holds a key to addressing...
President-elect Barack Obama has said science is crucial to assuring America’s future by creating jobs and wealth today, through the development of alternate energy sources, green industries, new medicines and advanced technologies. His campaign promises...
Many Americans have already taken action to reduce their energy use and many others would do the same if they could afford to, according to a national survey conducted by Yale and George Mason universities. Roughly half of the 2,164 American adults...
“Reassessing Paul Rudolph: Architecture and Reputation,” a two-day symposium hosted by Yale School of Architecture, January 23–24, will gather an international roster of scholars, critics and architects under the roof of newly renovated Paul Rudolph Hall...