Gail D’Eramo Melkus is fighting a vicious and subtle epidemic. Melkus, an associate professor at the Yale School of Nursing, studies diabetes in African-American women along with co-investigator Geralyn Spollett, assistant professor. Their work is...
Yale University has received a five-year, $4.3 million grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to pursue advanced research in public health and health care. The grant will support Yale’s continued participation in the Foundation’s Scholars in...
Yale University has announced the appointment of the following three faculty members to endowed professorships: law professors Jules L. Coleman and William. N. Eskridge Jr., and School of Management professor Dick R. Wittink. Coleman, a specialist in...
- Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced today that the section of the old Farmington Canal running through the Yale campus would be made available for the Rails to Trails project. “We support the Rails to Trails project, we hope that it...
The Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) at Yale and Yale Hillel will jointly sponsor a seminar series on “Bioethics and Public Policy” during the 1998-99 academic year. The series, focused on medicine, genetics and the environment, will...
Yale University researchers have discovered what appears to be evidence of worm-like animals in rocks that are more than 1 billion years old – about twice as old as any other evidence for multicellular life yet discovered. These findings, published in...
To test your own prejudices, click on www.yale.edu/implicit/. New Haven, Conn. – The pervasiveness of prejudice, which affects 90 to 95 percent of people, was demonstrated today in a Seattle news conference at the University of Washington by...
The classic image of communication between brain cells shows a neurotransmitter crossing the synapse and binding to receptors on the surface of a neighboring neuron. Yet scientists have had only a murky picture of the events within the secreting...
The following talks at Yale University the week of Sept. 21-27 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. African culture wars is topic of talk by anthropologist Yale alumnus Andrew Apter, an anthropologist who is a specialist on West...
Morse Named Recipient of Highest Engineering Award in Field New Haven, Conn. – On a nearly vertical slope in the Alps virtually inaccessible by helicopter, two mountain climbers get sick and need medical supplies badly. Normally, the sick climbers...