Members of the Yale community will be one step closer to a new state-of-the-art health care facility when officials break ground on the new Yale University Health Services (YUHS) on June 30 at 9:30 a.m. at 55 Lock St., corner of Canal. Speakers at the...
Scientists seeking link between stress and addiction.Yale psychologist Rajita Sinha started with a simple question posed to a diverse group of academic colleagues at Yale and two other universities.“What is the role that stress plays in the loss of self-...
Larry Samuelson, newly named as the inaugural A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics, focuses his research and teaching on microeconomic theory, game theory, repeated games and the evolutionary foundations of economic behavior.He is the author of “The...
Ebonya L. Washington, the newly designated Henry Kohn Assistant Professor of Economics, specializes in public finance and political economy.Washington teaches courses in both economics and political science. Her research interests focus on the interplay...
The David Paterson Golf Technology Center, a new facility to enhance the quality of training and the performance of the men’s and women’s teams, was formally dedicated on May 3.Named in honor of longtime Yale golf coach Dave Paterson, who is retiring, the...
Yale’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences (Ob/Gyn) recently sponsored two Yale medical students on a medical mission to Kenya, where they participated in the care of women with a condition known as vesicovaginal fistula,...
A rare water bug, a juvenile box turtle and a quarter-inch-long isopod that hasn’t been seen in more than 50 years highlighted findings in the second annual “BioBlitz” that involved Yale and other regional scientists May 30 and 31 in Stratford.Scientists...
A tiny species of fairy shrimp that hasn’t been seen since the 1950s has been rediscovered by a scientist at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.Eric A. Lazo-Wasem, senior collections manager in the Peabody’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology, was...
Visitors to the Yale University Art Gallery this summer will have the opportunity to see two of Vincent van Gogh’s most renowned paintings side by side and to view the pioneering camera obscura images by contemporary photographer Abelardo Morell.‘...
This year’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas will begin with a free concert by a gospel and soul performer and end with a procession that is part dance, part prayer, part procession.In between, the 15-day event will serve up a global feast of...