About 135 scientists have gathered in New Haven to discuss the latest advances in computational neuroscience at the Sloan-Swartz Centers 2010 Summer Meeting.The meeting that runs from June 29 to July 1 features top scientists from 11 Sloan-Swartz Centers...
Jeffrey Prescott, Deputy Director of The China Law Center and Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, has been named a White House Fellow, one of the country’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service.Prescott is...
A year-long clinical trial by Yale University and other institutions showed that treatment with sensor-augmented insulin pumps, which include a system of continuous glucose monitoring, leads to significantly greater control of type 1 diabetes than a daily...
Two Yale scientists have received a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study hepatitis C virus (HCV), a deadly pathogen that attacks the liver and afflicts about 170 million people worldwide.Anna Marie Pyle, the William Edward...
Yale University’s Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, 180 York Street, will host the exhibition “Material Meets Metaphor: A Half Century of Book Art by Richard Minsky” from August 2 through November 29.The exhibition covers 50 years of Minsky’s work —...
The Organization of American States (OAS) has extended its scholarship and financial aid benefits, geared towards students from Latin America and the Caribbean who are interested in pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees, to include those attending Yale’s...
A Yale University-led team of scientists reports that it has achieved an important first step in regenerating fully functional lung tissue that can exchange gas, which is the key role of the lungs. Their paper appears in the June 24 issue of Science...
Through textures, shapes, weights and temperatures, the sense of touch influences both our thoughts and behavior.In a series of six experiments documented in the June 25 issue of the journal Science, a Yale-led team of psychologists demonstrated how...
Yale University engineers have for the first time created 3D models of whole intact mouse organs, a feat they accomplished using fluorescence microscopy. The team reports its findings in the May/June issue of the Journal of Biomedical Optics, in a study...
Yale University Library has received a grant of $250,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support “The New England Indian Papers Series: The Connecticut Colony Collection, 1603–1783,” an online compendium of important and rare...