A celebration marking two watershed events in the history of the discipline of psychology at Yale will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, September 3, 2004, with remarks from several officials, including Yale President Richard C. Levin. The convocation will be...
Yale President Richard C. Levin has appointed Katherine Jones, R.N., FAAN, whose research focuses on health care quality and improvement, Acting Dean of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) effective Sept. 1, 2004. Jones joined the YSN faculty one year ago...
Marathon runners 50 and older, and female athletes in particular, are showing greater improvement in running times than younger runners, according to a study by a Yale professor. Peter Jokl, M.D., professor of orthopedics, and his co-authors, Paul Sethi...
Yale mathematician Shizuo Kakutani, who invented a tool known as the Kakutani skyscraper that was used to organize random processes such as coin flipping, died this week in New Haven. He was 92. Kakutani, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at...
In a paper published this month in Molecular Cell, Yale researchers have, for the first time, described the atomic structure of a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease. “Alzheimer’s disease is a major health problem because of the aging of the...
Eighteen women who maintained a weight loss of 15 to 144 pounds for at least one year and as long as 27 years followed similar patterns leading to consistent behavior change, according to a study published in the Nursing Science Quarterly. Diane Berry,...
The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression is providing almost $700,000 this year to 11 Yale University and affiliated researchers to study causes and treatment for mental illness. Among the topics NARSAD is supporting at Yale...
Yale surgeon Charles Cha, M.D., has received a Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Scholars Award, which was created to encourage young physicians and surgeons to make the geriatric aspects of their disciplines a career focus. Cha, of the Yale School...
In the brain, low levels of the inhibitory transmitter GABA and high levels of the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate appear to be strongly associated with a particular type of depression, according to a study by Yale researchers. The findings were...
Donor derived endometrial cells were detected in biopsy samples of four women who received bone marrow transplants to treat leukemia, according to a Yale study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This is the first known report...