For the first time on a national scale, voters completing one essential fall ritual, casting their ballot, can simultaneously take part in another: getting vaccinated against the flu. Flu vaccination clinics around the country are being set up within—or...
How do we make moral decisions, pick friends and lovers, and develop empathy for the feelings of others? An international group of renowned scientists who study the behavior of mankind’s closest relatives will try to answer these and other fundamental...
Malaria, a re-emerging disease that causes a huge burden of mortality, morbidity and economic cost on some of the poorest nations on the planet, will be the focus of a Yale-sponsored international symposium taking place Friday-Sunday, Nov. 7-9, in New...
After three-and-a-half years as dean of the Yale School of Management (SOM), Joel Podolny will step down on Nov. 1 from the post to lead educational initiatives at Apple Inc., President Richard C. Levin has announced.Sharon M. Oster, the Frederic D. Wolfe...
“One Community, One Voice,” a concert to benefit Shelter Now — a recently initiated effort to raise money for New Haven homeless shelters — will take place on Sunday, Nov. 2, 3-5 p.m. at Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets.The event will...
An exhibition of book jacket designs from the Yale University Press will be on view at the Whitney Humanities Center Nov. 5-Dec. 19 as part of the publishing house’s centenary celebration.The exhibit features book jackets from the past decade, with titles...
Paul D. Cleary, the newly named Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, has devoted much of his career to understanding how to improve the quality of patient care.Cleary, who is the dean of the School of Public Health and director of the Center for...
Bertolt Brecht’s “MAN=MAN,” a play inspired by silent cinema, clown and song, is currently being staged by the School of Drama, through Saturday, Nov. 1.“MAN=MAN” tells the tale of a peaceable porter transformed by a gang of soldiers into a ruthless...
Dr. Lloyd G. Cantley, newly designated as the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine, is a noted nephrologist who focuses his research on the mechanisms of renal tubule formation and repair.By examining epithelial cell adhesion, migration and branching...
Dr. Bennett A. Shaywitz, the inaugural Charles and Helen Schwab Professor in Dyslexia and Learning Development, is chief of pediatric neurology, co-director of the newly established Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, and a noted leader in the...