Yale University and the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC) today signed an agreement establishing the UNSAAC-Yale International Center for the Study of Machu Picchu and Inca Culture in Cusco, Peru.The Center will display,...
An interview of bestselling author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson by retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, senior fellow of the Yale Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at 4 p.m. at the Whitney Humanities...
More than 50 years after the invention of the laser, scientists at Yale University have built the world’s first anti-laser, in which incoming beams of light interfere with one another in such a way as to perfectly cancel each other out. The discovery...
Boston Scientific Corporation has established a $1.7 million scholarship endowment for Yale School of Medicine. The “Donald S. Baim, M.D., ‘75 Scholarship Fund” will honor the late cardiology pioneer and graduate of Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Baim...
If Dr. Laura Niklason has her way, vascular surgeons will someday be able to pull human veins off a shelf, whenever they want, to save lives.Niklason is a pioneer in the science — and art — of tissue-engineered replacement of human body components. Last...
Four of Yale’s brightest young scientists were among 118 named today as 2011 Sloan Research Fellows by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The fellowships are meant to encourage “fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding...
As a child grows, a short stature is not usually cause for concern, but it is often the only sign of a condition called Turner syndrome. Prevalent in girls, Turner syndrome is a genetic defect that short-circuits normal growth and leads to cardiac and...
Building upon a grant made in 2003 that established the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale, The Kavli Foundation has announced that it will contribute additional endowment funds to diversify and strengthen the institute’s interdisciplinary brain...
J.D. was dying. He had massive tumors in and around his neck that had choked off his ability to eat, sleep, breathe well and turn his head. Months of radiation treatment had done little to no good. He had only one hope: an experimental treatment that...
Clinicians have often referred to ultrasound technology as the “stethoscope of the future,” predicting that as the equipment shrinks in size, it will one day be as common at the bedside as that trusty tool around every physician’s neck. According to a new...