With HHMI funding, these Yale scientists are working to solve some of the most challenging biomedical mysteries.When the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has gone looking for biomedical researchers of “intellectual daring” in recent years, one place...
Yale and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will share a $10 million grant to study the way cocaine use during pregnancy affects interactions between mothers and infants.The Yale portion of the study will be spearheaded by Dr. Linda Mayes,...
Fellow Yale rowers Bob Casey and Rich Littlehale enjoy scheming about potential business ventures, but when they became serious about forming a company to sell vitamin water — with some of the proceeds supporting health research — they realized that there...
Not long after Yale juniors Rich Littlehale and Bob Casey realized that their idea of starting a company selling vitamin water was financially unfeasible, they began thinking of a potential new venture.At a conference in Chicago last spring, Casey learned...
The University will use a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish the George M. O’Brien Kidney Center at Yale.The five-year grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases will help fund three...
Two Yale poets — Louise Glück and Henri Cole — have won major prizes from the Academy of American Poets.Glück, an adjunct professor of English and the Rosencranz Writer in Residence, has won the Wallace Stevens Prize, awarded by the chancellors of the...
Yale physicist Jack Harris has demonstrated that one doesn’t have to be a research veteran to push back the frontiers of science.Like Einstein, who was only 26 years old when he came up with the theory of special relativity, Harris — an assistant...
Two celebrated playwrights aboard a trans-Atlantic ocean liner have no ending yet for their new musical comedy, which is to debut on Broadway in four days. In the meantime, their composer, being a fool for love, has tossed his score overboard and is...
Florence S. Wald, dean emerita of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) and founder of hospice in the United States, died on Nov. 8 at her home in Branford. She was 91 years old.Wald, a member of the National Women’s Hall of Fame and an American Academy of...
Dr. Franklin H. Epstein, a former Yale professor known worldwide for his accomplishments in nephrology, died on Nov. 5. He was 84 years old.A 1947 graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, Epstein completed his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where...