Nationally-known educators Jonathan Kozol and Edmund Gordon, professor emeritus of psychology at Yale University, will be the main speakers at a conference by the Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry June 9.The 7th Annual Divisional Conference...
In conjunction with National Osteoporosis Month in May, Women’s Health Research at Yale is making available on its website a brochure “Understanding How Nutrition Affects Bone Health.”The brochure explains the relationship of calcium, vitamin D and...
Yale University’s 2006 Commencement will be held on May 21 and May 22 on the Yale campus.All members of the media must obtain and display Yale media credentials during Class Day (Sunday) and Commencement (Monday) ceremonies. Please email credential...
Eric Sargis, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Thanks to a globe-spanning collaboration and an animal found in a farmer’s cornfield in Tanzania, a new genus of living monkey has been characterized, marking the first such discovery in 83...
William Sloane Coffin Jr. A public memorial service for the late Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. (1924–2006) will be held at Yale’s Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets, on May 27 at 2 p.m.Coffin died on April 12 at his home...
Yale’s University Properties celebrates the opening of Villarina’s Pasta, Gifts and More in the Chapel-College District of New Haven. The press is invited to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Villarina’s at 11 a.m. on May 11 at 1092 Chapel St. The new...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin Yale University President Richard C. Levin was honored with the Community Dialogue Project’s 2006 Reverend Howard Nash Community Leadership Award on May 3 at the New Haven Lawn Club.The Dialogue...
Elizabeth B. Claus, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded a two-year, $250,000 grant from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to study breast ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS...
A current exhibition on the pioneering environmental activist and author of “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson, will be at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Wall and High streets, through June.The publication of “Silent Spring” in 1962 marked...
Haskins Laboratories, an independent research institute in New Haven that collaborates with Yale University and other institutions around the world, has been awarded $3.4 million by the National Institutes of Health to continue the study of links between...