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...
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...
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...
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...
Hearing the sobering statistics regarding the rate of childhood obesity in New Haven hit home for Yale baseball star Josh Cox, inspiring him to organize the first annual Yale Athletic Health Fair and Community Dinner.The free event — which aimed to...