Farmington, Conn. – The Lewis Walpole Library has announced that it will seek to record recollections by contemporaries of the Library’s founders, Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979) and Annie Burr Lewis (1902-1959), to round out the portrait of an...
Yale Law School’s Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic has released a report on the widespread use of short-term employment contracts in the Cambodian garment industry to deny workers statutory benefits and to restrict their exercise of...
Over one-third of the world’s population already lives in areas struggling to keep up with the demand for fresh water. By 2025, that number will nearly double. Some countries have met the challenge by tapping into natural sources of fresh water, but as...
Yale Police Department (YPD) Chief Ronnell Higgins has announced the promotions of Michael Patten and Steven Woznyk to the position of assistant chief. As part of a departmental reorganization, Higgins has divided the responsibilities of what was formerly...
“Ancient Art, Modern Science: 200 Years of Medicine at Yale,” a new film created to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Yale School of Medicine, can now be seen on Yale’s YouTube channel. Narrated by award-winning broadcaster Jane Pauley, the film...
Players will be serving up tennis balls even as some of the city’s top restaurants will be serving up their specialties when the New Haven Open at Yale presented by First Niagara returns to the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale Aug. 18-27.The New Haven...
A Yale University-led research team has discovered how reduced expression of a particular gene protects against obesity and type 2 diabetes, possibly prolonging lifespan by mimicking the effects of calorie restriction. The study appears in the August 3...
Anyone who has ever wondered what it takes for a child to learn a musical instrument is invited to visit the Yale School of Music Morse Summer Academy this month, where more than 50 New Haven public school students are immersed in an intensive four-week...
An anti-psychotic drug commonly prescribed to patients with hard-to-treat post-traumatic stress disorder does not ease PTSD symptoms, according to a new study by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Yale School of Medicine.There are limited treatment...
Children are being exposed to almost one advertisement every day for unhealthy food, beverage, and restaurant brands via product placements on prime-time TV, finds a study from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The study — which is the...