A team of Yale University researchers has found that school-based programs for obesity prevention and reversal are generally effective and are an important component in battling what many regard as a national obesity epidemic among young people.In recent...
Ira Flatow, host and executive producer of “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” on National Public Radio, will give a public lecture on campus on Tuesday, February 10.Titled “Talking Science in A Science-Challenged World,” Flatow’s talk will begin at 4 p....
“Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes,” an exhibition examining the suburb as a catalyst for new work by artists and architects, will be on view March 2–May 10 at the Yale Architecture Gallery, Paul Rudolph Hall, 180 York St.The American suburbs have been...
The Yale University Police Department (YPD) will once again host its Citizen’s Police Academy beginning March 24 for members of the Yale and New Haven community.The academy is free of charge and takes place over a six-week period on Tuesdays, 6–8:30 p.m...
A missing link in the evolution of the front claw of living scorpions and horseshoe crabs was identified with the discovery of a 390 million-year-old fossil by researchers at Yale and the University of Bonn, Germany.The specimen, named Schinderhannes...
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150 year anniversary of publication of his Origin of the Species, Yale has created a webportal, Yale Celebrates Darwin. The portal provides links to information about all the...
Kirsten Gillibrand, the new U.S. Senator from New York, occupying the seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is a graduate of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University (WCSY).Gillibrand, a Democrat who had been reelected in November to...
Window shoppers walking down Chapel Street’s retail row may pause at a display of plywood structures in the storefront of 978 Chapel St. and wonder: “What are joints like that doing in a place like this?”The “body-sized” sculptures, made up of differing...
Yale School of Architecture has selected five pioneering projects to receive the inaugural grants from the Hines Research Fund for Advanced Sustainability in Architecture.The $5 million endowment fund was set up in 2008 by Gerald D. Hines, founder and...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery Thursday for what appears to be early-stage pancreatic cancer. Yale-New Haven Hospital is one of the leading centers in the Northeast for pancreatic cancer surgery, under Dr. Ronald Salem....