A Yale professor has been awarded a $150,000 grant to study the use of the natural product palau’amine, which was isolated from a marine sponge found in the West Pacific, as a potential chemotherapeutic agent. Chemistry Professor David Austin said the...
A new, annual $25,000 prize for the most outstanding book published on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition has been awarded for the first time to Ira Berlin, author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery, and Philip D...
Marina Warner will deliver Yale University’s 1999 Tanner Lectures on “Spirit Visions” on Wednesday, Oct. 20, and Thursday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St. The first talk, “The Inner Eye: Figuring the...
A CD-Rom on the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes edited by Professor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria of Yale University has received Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book Award for 1998. The multi-media reference work about Spain’s most...
Renowned experts from around the country will convene in October to present innovative women’s health research as part of the second Yale Conference on Women’s Health & Fitness. The conference will run Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 21-23 at the Omni New...
Jonathan E. Soderstrom has been named director of Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research. Soderstrom succeeds Gregory E. Gardiner, who has been director of OCR since February 1996. Gardiner is leaving to pursue other interests. At the same time, Robert...
New findings by Yale researchers bring us one step closer to understanding why we have fleeting memories of some events, yet remember other incidents for a lifetime. In a study published Friday in the journal Science, Professor Thomas Carew and co-...
In order to promote favorable living conditions once it invades a cell, the salmonella bacteria injects its host cell with a protein called SptP, a Yale study finds. “These findings bring us closer to understanding the complex mechanisms by which...
James A. Baker, III will present the annual George Herbert Walker Lecture at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies on Wednesday, Sept. 29, at 4 p.m. The title of his talk is “Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy on the Threshold of a New...
Yale today received a $100,000 grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., to support STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) – a program to promote academic success in the sciences among women, minorities and the physically...