Treatment to lower systolic high blood pressure in older persons is associated with substantial reduction of stroke and other cardiovascular diseases, Yale researchers report in the September 1 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association. The...
Yale President Richard C. Levin has appointed Katherine Jones, R.N., FAAN, whose research focuses on health care quality and improvement, Acting Dean of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) effective Sept. 1, 2004. Jones joined the YSN faculty one year ago...
On October 6, the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., with the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, will host the first of a series of four lectures on 100 years of psychoanalysis by renowned author Elisabeth Young-Bruehl....
The Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities at Yale University will present the following lectures this fall: September 9 “Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: The Shaping of a Self and Object World,” Harry Trosman, M.D., professor of...
Mathematician Walter Feit, a Yale professor for 40 years, died at age 73 after a long illness on July 29, 2004 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, CT. Professor Feit was a pure mathematician whose contributions provided fundamental infrastructure...
Yale University is a key member of a nationwide group of medical centers awarded a $17 million grant from the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke, a division of the National Institutes of Health, for a study of childhood absence (petit...
The 1,312 members of the Yale College Class of 2008 will arrive on campus August 28 for orientation activities. This year’s class was chosen from the largest number of applicants Yale has ever had: 19,682 in all. That number represents an increase of...
Marathon runners 50 and older, and female athletes in particular, are showing greater improvement in running times than younger runners, according to a study by a Yale professor. Peter Jokl, M.D., professor of orthopedics, and his co-authors, Paul Sethi...
Yale mathematician Shizuo Kakutani, who invented a tool known as the Kakutani skyscraper that was used to organize random processes such as coin flipping, died this week in New Haven. He was 92. Kakutani, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at...
Yale College news reporters will hold a week-long Summer Journalism Program for 30 local high school students who want to experience the life of a journalist and hone their news skills, August 22-28. The program aims to teach “the tricks of the trade”...