President Richard C. Levin joined former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the announcement today of the launch of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. As part of the Foundation’s efforts, Blair said he would lead a seminar at Yale beginning in the fall.“...
Blocking a common immune system response cleared up plaques associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and enabled treated mice to recover some lost memory, Yale University researchers report Friday in the journal Nature Medicine.Researchers hope the new...
The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded the following prizes at Commencement Convocation on May 25. The Robert E. Apfel Fellowship Award recognizes the Yale graduate student in Mechanical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering who best...
This year, for the tenth time, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honored three faculty members for their exemplary qualities as mentors. The honorees were chosen by a committee of students and faculty, in coordination the Graduate Teaching Center....
Today Pasko Rakic, professor of neurobiology and neurology at Yale University School of Medicine, was named one of the inaugural recipients of the Kavli Prizes, for his key role in changing our understanding of the cerebral cortex, the seat of human...
A Yale research team has engineered a system with the potential for making the Internet work more efficiently, in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers can work cooperatively to deliver data. The way people use...
Researchers at Yale and the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich have formulated a theory that, allows scientists to better understand and predict the properties of both conventional and non-conventional lasers, according to a recent article in...
Yale University’s Christine Jacobs-Wagner has been designated an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, a non-profit medical research organization that is one of the nation’s largest philanthropies.Jacobs-Wagner, the Maxine...
New departmental chairs are announced by President Levin President Richard C. Levin recently announced the following faculty appointments: Edward Kamens, the Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, as acting chair of the Department of East Asian...
Graduation ceremonies were held over the weekend on the New Haven campus. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke at the Yale College Class Day on May 25. The weekend included a variety of activities, including social events, performances and...