President Richard C. Levin has written to the faculty and staff concerning the effect of current economic conditions on the University and outlining the steps that will be taken to address them while continuing to advance Yale’s most important objectives...
The Yale School of Public Health is partnering with Tsinghua University in Beijing to provide management and leadership education for 500 underserved women in China working in the healthcare field. The partnership, beginning in 2009, is part of the...
Joan Channick, an internationally renowned theatre manager and teacher, has been appointed as associate dean of the Yale School of Drama, effective Feb. 1, 2009, announced Yale University Provost Peter Salovey and Yale School of Drama Dean James Bundy....
For over six decades, Yale scientist Talbot Waterman has been bringing insights into how aquatic animals use polarized light — i.e., the directional orientation of light that indicates the sun’s position in the sky — to navigate underwater.Waterman, 94,...
For Ross Mitchell and Taylor Kilian, graduate students in geology and geophysics, the end of the work week sometimes marks the beginning of their work.Weekends often find them far from New Haven, studying paleomagnetism — using “fossilized” magnetic...
A smile may be infectious, but are obesity, smoking and even a headache?Published research has suggested that certain health outcomes are “contagious” in close social networks — that, for instance, people who kick the smoking habit are likely to...
Youngsters and adults alike will soon be able to tour the cosmos without leaving their seats, thanks to the opening of a new planetarium at Yale’s Leitner Family Observatory, 355 Prospect St. The renamed Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium is set...
Two Yale-affiliated stores in the Broadway shopping area are hosting Faculty and Staff Appreciation Days from Dec. 12 to 19.Campus community members who shop at the Yale Bookstore (a.k.a. Barnes & Noble at Yale), located at 77 Broadway, will receive...
The University Police Department issued the following statement on campus security procedures during the holiday recess.The University’s holiday recess begins at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 23. Students must vacate their rooms by noon on Sunday, Dec. 21, and...
Once a week in the basement of Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH), Yale junior Sameer Gupta sorts through medical and surgical supplies and packs them for transport overseas.It’s not the most glamorous job, says Gupta, but it gives him an “unparalleled...