The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute has announced the launch of a national initiative to strengthen classroom teaching in U.S. public schools. Underwritten by a $2.5 million grant from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, the effort seeks to...
United States Representative Rosa L. DeLauro: I was pleased to learn that the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute has been awarded a grant from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund to establish programs to improve public school curriculum around the...
Three Yale University scientists – a Hungarian mathematician known for his work on the theory of computers, an anthropologist specializing in lemurs, and an expert in computer vision and robotics – recently were named to endowed chairs by vote of the...
In the quest to make faster computer chips and more efficient semiconductor lasers, scientists are exploring the relatively new field of “spintronics,” in which the direction an electron spin is pointing is just as important as its charge. Bringing...
Yale University Press has announced a winner in the 1998 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. The judge, distinguished poet W.S. Merwin, chose Craig Arnold’s manuscript, “Shells,” which Yale University Press will publish in the spring of 1999...
Eight Yale students are working this summer to improve life in New Haven and advance the cause of social justice, thanks to the Dwight Hall Summer Internship Program. The program, now in its 30th year, provides funding so that students can work full...
Two vaccines designed to protect humans against Lyme disease have been shown to be effective in tests at the Yale University School of Medicine, where one of the vaccines was pioneered and where the tick-borne illness first was described in 1975....
Rwanda. Congo. Somalia. Violent regional and ethnic tensions have erupted in Africa in recent years, leaving thousands dead, wounded and driven from their homes. The first step in preventing a repetition of these tragedies is to understand them...
A bequest to Yale University from Germain Seligman provided 10 Yale undergraduates with scholarships totaling $155,789 during the recently completed 1997P98 academic year. This is the fourth consecutive year that Yale undergraduates benefitted from the...
More than 300 teachers, principals, parents and policy-makers interested in school-based child care are expected to attend the ninth annual School of the 21st Century conference, titled “Schools as Family and Community Resources: Ten Years of Experience...