Yale sophomore Lexy Adams will give the ultimate gift this holiday season by donating bone marrow to help save the life of a cancer patient.The 18-year old sophomore, a back on the field hockey team, found out she was an excellent genetic match for the...
The following is a reminder from Benefits Planning.The Annual Benefits Enrollment period — when eligible Yale faculty and staff opportunity can make changes to existing benefits or sign up for new benefits — continues through Dec. 15.You can also enroll...
A Yale University researcher has found virus-like genetic material within samples of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and scrapie, a finding that challenges scientific consensus on the nature of these deadly brain-wasting diseases.Many scientists say that...
Yale University’s Nancy Moran this week received the International Prize for Biology from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.The William H. Fleming Professor of Biology received the award, which commemorates the 60-year reign of Emperor...
The Whitney Humanities Center is currently hosting an exhibition by renowned American artist William Bailey, who also happens to be the Kingman Brewster Professor Emeritus of Art at Yale.Bailey, who turned 80 in November, is a widely exhibited figurative...
About 60 students and staff members learned about deaf culture and sign language during an information forum held in November at the Yale School of Nursing.The event was presented by the University Library’s Disabilities Services Committee, the Provost’s...
Six in the morning is hardly the best time to confront your worst nightmare. Yet there we were: The members of the Yale Precision Marching Band (YPMB), quickly snatched out of our early morning reveries on Nov. 19, as red brick buildings and artificial...
Yale University researchers have found that a single molecule not only connects brain cells but also changes how we learn. The findings, reported in the December 9 issue of the journal Neuron, may help researchers discover ways to improve memory and could...
Two Yale professors — Robert Shiller and Bruce Ackerman ‘67 LAW — and a number of Yale graduates are among the noted national leaders, statesmen, authors, entrepreneurs, writers and dissidents who are recognized as “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign...
Gladiators, cross-dressers and star-crossed lovers will be out in full force when the Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP) presents its seventh fully staged production, “Scipione Affricano” by Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676), Friday-Saturday, Dec. 10-11....