Physicians-in-training at the Yale School of Medicine will learn how to identify and aid individuals with substance abuse problems through a program being suppported by a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service...
Battell Chapel will be the setting for an unusual presentation of poetry and whirling dervishes on Sunday, Oct. 26, at 4 p.m.The internationally recognized sacred Whirling Ceremony, known as SEMA, will be preceded by a reading from the poetry of...
Yale University Library has received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a unique research project that will attempt to improve how users can search for and discover digital resources.Digital collections may...
Dr. George E. Palade, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who founded the Section of Cell Biology at the Yale School of Medicine, died on Oct. 8 at his home in Del Mar, California. He was 96 years old.“Dr. Palade was a giant in 20th century scientific...
The brains of obese people seem to respond to a tasty treat with less vigor than the brains of their leaner peers, suggesting obese people may overeat to compensate for a reduced reward response, according to a new brain imaging and genetics study...
Eight new courses in history, economics, literature and biomedical engineering taught by leading faculty have been added to “Open Yale Courses,” the University’s free online education initiative. The courses, which were recorded in their entirety as they...
Yale Cancer Center researchers have identified a genetic biomarker that may help to determine why some people are at an increased risk of developing lung cancer. Yale Cancer Center researchers have identified a genetic biomarker that may help to determine...
“Civic Engagement Conversation”Yale will co-sponsor a “Civic Engagement Conversation” on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 6-8 p.m., at the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St.The event will feature Eric Etheridge, author of “Breach of Peace: Portraits of the...
Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University, longtime scholar of the American South, and author of “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” (Knopf, 2008), will talk about her book at 4:30 p.m. on October 29, at Luce Hall...
Yale University’s Arthur Horwich, M.D., has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences announced.Horwich, Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical...