Yale University has today agreed to pay the federal government $7.6 million to settle issues arising from a broad, multi-year investigation of federal research grant accounting going back to 1999. The settlement covers Yale’s grants with substantially...
Many physicians fail to use readily available interpreters with their non-English speaking patients, opting for “getting by” with their own limited foreign language skills or using a patient’s friend or family member, according to research conducted in...
A Yale book examining the clash between today’s capitalism and the environment was selected by the Washington Post as one of the best nonfiction books of 2008. The newspaper called “The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and...
Elizabeth Alexander, an award-winning poet and Yale professor of African American studies and English literature, has been selected to compose and read an original poem at the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. “I’m completely...
Are you planning a holiday ski trip? How about a quick getaway to the Caribbean? Think you can leave the sunscreen at home because it’s winter? Here’s a warning from Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. David J. Leffell: “Just because the calendar says...
Jeremy Gray, a psychologist at Yale University, is one of 20 young scientists who are winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Science and Engineers. The awards, given by the White House in consultation with the National Science Foundation and...
After serving time, prisoners battling heroin addiction, mental illness and HIV face many challenges as they re-enter society. As part of an effort to make this transition easier on both the prisoner and the community, researchers at the Yale University...
Like a well-trained army, the fundamental biological processes of organisms are coordinated through a hierarchy of finely tuned molecular commands. In a new paper published online Dec. 18 in the journal Genes and Development, Yale University researchers...
In a finding that could lead to improved treatment of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Yale University researchers have uncovered a key mechanism in the immune system that appears to offer protection from the disorder. Their work appears in the...
The public’s concerns about costs and increased promiscuity among teenagers appear to be hindering use of a vaccine against the human papilloma virus (HPV) to prevent life-threatening diseases, according to a study by researchers at Yale School of Public...