A Yale University researcher has found virus-like genetic material within samples of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and scrapie, a finding that challenges scientific consensus on the nature of these deadly brain-wasting diseases.Many scientists say that...
Yale University’s Nancy Moran this week received the International Prize for Biology from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.The William H. Fleming Professor of Biology received the award, which commemorates the 60-year reign of Emperor...
The Whitney Humanities Center is currently hosting an exhibition by renowned American artist William Bailey, who also happens to be the Kingman Brewster Professor Emeritus of Art at Yale.Bailey, who turned 80 in November, is a widely exhibited figurative...
About 60 students and staff members learned about deaf culture and sign language during an information forum held in November at the Yale School of Nursing.The event was presented by the University Library’s Disabilities Services Committee, the Provost’s...
Six in the morning is hardly the best time to confront your worst nightmare. Yet there we were: The members of the Yale Precision Marching Band (YPMB), quickly snatched out of our early morning reveries on Nov. 19, as red brick buildings and artificial...
Nationally known breast cancer expert and director of the Yale-New Haven Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital, Anees Chagpar, MD, is available to provide comment and insight on the new data presented on breast cancer at this week’s San Antonio Breast...
Yale University researchers have found that a single molecule not only connects brain cells but also changes how we learn. The findings, reported in the December 9 issue of the journal Neuron, may help researchers discover ways to improve memory and could...
A lecture on January 6 by visionary Chinese developer Vincent Lo will open the season of free and public events offered by the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) in the first half of 2011.Unless otherwise noted, all lectures and symposia take place in...
Two Yale professors — Robert Shiller and Bruce Ackerman ‘67 LAW — and a number of Yale graduates are among the noted national leaders, statesmen, authors, entrepreneurs, writers and dissidents who are recognized as “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign...
Gladiators, cross-dressers and star-crossed lovers will be out in full force when the Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP) presents its seventh fully staged production, “Scipione Affricano” by Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676), Friday-Saturday, Dec. 10-11....