Hormone therapy seems to preserve the memories of women just entering menopause but is of little benefit to older women and leaves them at increased risk of breast cancer, heart disease and stroke, according to a research team at Yale University.A new...
The founder of Time magazine Henry R. Luce will be the subject of a discussion with historians Alan Brinkley and Lance Morrow at Yale on March 25, at 5 p.m.Free and open to the public, the discussion, titled “Henry R. Luce and the 20th Century,” will take...
In recognition of 40 years of coeducation at Yale, several generations of Yale affiliated women, from the pioneering female students who graduated with the Class of 1971 to current students and faculty, will meet on the weekend of March 26–28 to take...
Yale University will launch a new Yale Publishing Course this summer, bringing emerging industry leaders from around the world together with experts in their respective fields to tackle the most compelling issues facing publishers. The first session will...
Yale Professor Jacob Hacker, who has helped to craft policies that are the foundation of health care reform, can provide answers to many questions of interest to ordinary citizens. A seasoned commentator with significant media experience, Professor Hacker...
Yale Environment 360 has won the award for best video in the 2010 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media for an original report that it produced and posted on the site about mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.The video, “Leveling Appalachia...
Yale scientists and researchers now have a comprehensive online tool they can use to share and discuss research projects, data, lab protocols, results, news of clinical trials and advances in clinical care.It is called the YCCI Research Accelerator (RA),...
For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.Action still resulted in an equal and opposite reaction, gravity kept the Earth circling the Sun, and...
When Jo Handelsman was 16 years old, she read a book by the late Yale plant physiologist Arthur Galston and became convinced her ambition to help feed the world was not misplaced.More than three decades later, she occupies the late Galston’s former office...
For most of her life, Binnie Klein was so non-athletic that breaking a sweat was a rare occurrence.She viewed her body, she says, as nothing more than a “necessary backpack for my brain.”In her mid-fifties, however, the lecturer in the Department of...