For the fifth year in a row, area residents are invited to sample the city’s award-winning and internationally diverse restaurants during New Haven Restaurant Week, Nov. 7-12.Yale is among the sponsors of the event, which this year will feature 32...
Novelist Mark Helprin, whose work has been called “visionary” and “incandescent,” will speak about writing, and his own beginnings as a writer, at a master’s tea on Wednesday, Nov. 10, at 4 p.m. at Branford College, 80 High St.The event, which is co-...
Young, overweight women are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors and are at significantly higher risk for sexually transmitted infections than their more slender peers, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The paper is...
More than 550 science journalists will be in New Haven Nov. 5-9 as Yale University and the Yale School of Medicine host ScienceWriters2010, the combined annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the Council for the...
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale has received a $256,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to study the impact of food packaging changes on food purchases and access to healthy foods. This is part of a larger $1.5...
Yale athletes are holding two separate fundraising events this month to support Mandi Schwartz and her family as the student continues her battle with cancer.In 2008 Schwartz, a center on the women’s ice hockey team, was diagnosed with acute myeloid...
This story is from the Yale Medical Group website.When Dr. Mark Marieb told Kristen Klansky that the catheter ablation procedure to treat her arrhythmia would trigger the fluttering heartbeat that brought her to him in the first place, it made her nervous...
Talbot H. Waterman, a Yale scientist renowned for his research on underwater optics — particularly on how aquatic animals use polarized light to navigate — died on Sept. 11 at the age of 96.A member of the Yale faculty for four decades, he was an active...
While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch schoolteacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a strange-looking object that baffled professional astronomers. Two...
The Yale Law School launched a new clinic this semester to train students to address the needs of an underserved and often stigmatized population — Connecticut’s military veterans.Yale’s program is one of a handful of veterans’ clinics now operating in...