Scientists for the first time have discovered a way to predict whether women with the most common form of non-invasive breast cancer — ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)— are at risk of developing more invasive tumors in later life. The study appears online...
Dr. Michael Caplan, the C.N.H. Long Professor and chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the Yale School of Medicine, has received the University’s first Postdoctoral Mentoring Prize.The new prize, to be presented annually, honors...
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has honored seven Yale faculty with election as new members: Joseph G. Altonji, Peter Cresswell, Paul Harris Freedman, Alanna Schepartz, Günter P. Wagner, Elisabeth Jean Wood and Craig Milton Wright.They are among...
The molecular caps at the ends of chromosomes that protect humans against cancer and premature cellular aging show a surprising inability to protect themselves against ultraviolet radiation, a new Yale School of Medicine study has found.Telomeres—the...
Yale Divinity School (YDS) will host a conference May 6–7 titled “Money and Morals after the Crash,” addressing some of the critical ethical questions people face as the recession brings economic issues front and center.The conference coincides with...
Yale University announces the selection of 15 Yale World Fellows for 2010. The Yale World Fellows Program is the University’s signature global leadership development initiative and a core element of Yale’s ongoing commitment to internationalization. Each...
In recognition of his prolific contributions to the field of immunological research, Yale professor Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, the elite corps of researchers from the nation’s top scientific...
Most patients and research subjects believe that the financial ties their clinicians and researchers have with private companies should be disclosed, according to findings published in Archives of Internal Medicine by researchers at Yale School of...
The inaugural session of the Yale Publishing Course July 18-23, 2010 will focus on “Leadership Strategies in a Time of Transition.”The Yale Course on the University campus is carrying on the mission of the now defunct Stanford Publishing Course to train...
It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Jeffrey Brenzel TD ’75, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Lecturer in Philosophy, and current Timothy Dwight resident fellow, as the next Master of Timothy Dwight College for a period of five years...