Jodie Foster has a unique way of conquering her fears: She makes thriller movies. As a result, the Academy Award-winning actress told an audience at a recent Calhoun College master’s tea, she is the least fearful person she knows.A 1985 Yale College...
Two Yale seniors, Matthew Baum of Boston and Jarrad Aguirre of Denver, are among the 20 undergraduates who were selected for USA Today’s All-USA College Academic Team.They were chosen for the prize from hundreds of applicants nationwide who were nominated...
“Suppose you’re a judge in traffic court and for every conviction, you get a percentage of the fine. Or suppose you preside over a case involving a physical assault, and, unbeknownst to the court, your daughter was attacked and beaten several years ago....
For the second time in 10 years, students in a Yale Law School clinic played a major role in the revitalization of New Haven’s Greater Dwight neighborhood - this time, by overseeing the $11.5 million refinancing of the Shaw’s Shopping Center on Whalley...
Developers of a wristband that senses the optimum time in the sleep cycle to wake and a company with a new idea about how to help small cattle ranches were winners of the 2009 Y50K competition sponsored by the Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES)....
The departure of Yale students for the summer will once again prove a boon for local non-profit groups, thanks to the annual Spring Salvage program sponsored by Yale Recycling and the Yale Office of Sustainability.Representatives from local non-profits...
The revolutionary ideas and discoveries of Charles Darwin — and their legacy in current research — are explored in a new exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.Titled “Darwin: 150 Years of Evolutionary Thinking,” the exhibition is part...
Yale researcher Professor Scott Strobel has been named a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow by the Department of Defense (DOD) in recognition of his efforts to convert chemical byproducts of a Patagonian fungus into an alternate fuel...
Frank Keefe, the Robert J.H. Kiphuth Director of Swimming, who has guided the Yale men’s and women’s swimming teams to 473 wins, will retire at the conclusion of the 2009-2010 season.Keefe, who was inducted into the American Swimming Coaches Association...
Superior intelligence is no defense against the effects of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, Yale researchers have found.About three of four ADHD individuals with an IQ of more than 120 – a score that ranks them in the top nine percent of the...