Samuel E. Martin, a professor of Far Eastern linguistics at Yale for more than 40 years, died on Nov. 28 at his home in Vancouver, Washington, after a long illness. He was 85 years old.Martin served as director of the Korean Dictionary Project, sponsored...
In 1935, in order to generate support for New Deal reforms, the Historical Division of the Farm Security Administration — and later the Office of War Information — began making photographic surveys of economic struggle and social dislocation in Depression...
Yale President Richard C. Levin presented a $5,000 contribution for Haitian relief efforts today to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the opening ceremony of the Global Colloquium of University Presidents.“As a caring, global...
Sons of adolescent fathers are nearly twice as likely to perpetuate the cycle of young parenthood and become teenage dads themselves, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health has found.Previous studies have documented the intergenerational cycle of...
Yale student musicians, including the incomparable Whiffenpoofs and Yale Gospel Choir, will put on a concert, “Help Can’t Wait Haiti,” to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake on Monday evening, Martin Luther King Day.The benefit concert will...
Carnegie Professor Emeritus of the History of Art Walter Cahn will deliver the first spring-term Franke lecture at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) at Yale in this semester’s series, “The Age of Cathedrals.”His talk, titled “Romanesque and Gothic as...
Stress induces signals that cause cells to develop into tumors, Yale researchers have discovered. The research, published online Jan. 13 in the journal Nature, describes a novel way cancer takes hold in the body and suggests new ways to attack the deadly...
New research conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School concludes that people’s cultural values influence how risky they perceive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to be and thus, their views on whether or not the vaccine should...
Our energy-hungry brains operate reliably and efficiently while processing a flood of sensory information, thanks to a sort of neuronal thermostat that regulates activity in the visual cortex, Yale researchers have found.The actions of inhibitory neurons...
DeVita elected to top post in American Cancer Society Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. was elected second vice-president of the American Cancer Society (ACS), the nation’s largest voluntary health organization. DeVita is the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of...