President Richard C. Levin has spoken directly with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to underscore Yale’s interest in pursuing the opportunity to have the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) return to Yale. The President said he spoke with Secretary...
When vaccinating children against varicella (chicken pox), researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found, two doses are better than one. In fact, the odds of developing chicken pox were 95% lower in children who had received two doses of the vaccine...
The world that Garentina Kraja ‘11 has come to know as a Yale student is vastly different from the one in which she grew up in Kosovo. But memories of the days when she was literally running for her life or watching families identify loved ones killed...
Heavy use of antibiotics has created a host of dangerous drug-resistant pathogens that endanger the health of millions of people. However, it has been unclear how quickly a ban on the overuse of an antibiotic would restore its usefulness.According to a...
If you want to be surrounded by females on the prowl, it pays to be cool, at least if you are a male butterfly.In an unusual example of sex role reversals, females actively court males after being exposed to cool, dry temperatures as caterpillars, Yale...
The Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology will hold a memorial service to commemorate the life of long-time Yale faculty member Talbot H. Waterman, who passed away on Sept. 11 at the age of 96The service will be held Sunday, Jan. 16...
If you want to be surrounded by females on the prowl, it pays to be cool, at least if you are a male butterfly.In an unusual example of sex role reversals, females actively court males after being exposed to cool, dry temperatures as caterpillars, Yale...
Physicians from Yale University and other institutions assert that medical residents need far more rigorous training and medical schools need stronger infrastructure in order to adequately deal with the medical, behavioral, financial and social problems...
When Eric Sargis first saw a photograph of an unusual monkey that biologists discovered in 2005, he didn’t doubt that it represented a new species. But it wasn’t until one of the unusual monkeys had been trapped by a farmer in Tanzania that he was...
The New Haven Public Schools have been attracting increasing interest from parents who want to take advantage of the opportunities available for their children from the largest magnet school program in the state of Connecticut and from the growing...