The Yale World Fellows Program is partnering with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants to launch Project 2012, an analysis of impending global political, social and economic upheavals aimed at preparing decision makers for this transitional year.In 2012,...
Fifty million years ago, crocodiles roamed the Arctic and palm trees grew in Alaska. But just how hot the Earth got during this period of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has remained a mystery.Now a team of scientists from Yale and Syracuse...
There are cultural difference not only in the way we smile, but also in how we can tell a fake smile from a real one, says Yale psychology professor Marianne LaFrance in an interview with healthzone.ca.Click here to read the interview.
Yale School of Medicine researchers have described for the first time the structure of a member in an enigmatic family of proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease, a crucial early step in understanding key mechanisms of the disease and designing drugs to...
Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, has received the 2011 International Award of Lifetime Achievement by the Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation of Spain. The foundation lauded Zedillo’s political and economic reforms as...
A team of scientists has discovered the youngest dinosaur preserved in the fossil record before the catastrophic meteor impact 65 million years ago. The finding indicates that dinosaurs did not go extinct prior to the impact and provides further evidence...
Sarah Demers wins DOE Early Career Research AwardThe U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Sarah Demers, assistant professor of physics, a 2011 Early Career Research Award.The five-year awards are meant to support “exceptional researchers during the...
A team of Yale professors and students from the Departments of Geology and Geophysics and of Anthropology are currently in Montana on a fossil-hunting expedition.You can follow their progress on their blog.The Yale Peabody Museum’s Division of Vertebrate...
“Critical Condition: When Silence Speaks,” a group exhibition exploring the “medical-emotional landscape,” will open on Tuesday, July 12, at the Parachute Factory.“This exhibition seeks to expose the stories about health that you don’t hear, narratives...
A team of rising juniors beat out graduate and undergraduate students from around the country in a national competition to create novel technology for improved healthcare delivery.Elizabeth Asai, Nick Demas and Elliot Swart won the prize for their...