Dr. Lloyd G. Cantley, newly designated as the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine, is a noted nephrologist who focuses his research on the mechanisms of renal tubule formation and repair.By examining epithelial cell adhesion, migration and branching...
Dr. Bennett A. Shaywitz, the inaugural Charles and Helen Schwab Professor in Dyslexia and Learning Development, is chief of pediatric neurology, co-director of the newly established Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, and a noted leader in the...
Dr. Michael Simons, recently appointed the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine, is a leader in the role of angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels) in cardiovascular diseases.Simons joined the Yale faculty earlier this fall as the new section...
Portraits of English painters that once formed part of a collection of prints and drawings in the library of Horace Walpole will be featured in an exhibition at the Lewis Walpole Library.Titled “Portraits of Painters: Drawings by George Vertue and Horace...
Members of the Yale community are invited to share their thoughts and opinions about the 2008 election on a political blog that was started as part of an undergraduate English class.The blog, “Election 2008: Examining New Media for November,” was started...
Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will deliver the 2008 Tanner Lectures on Human Values on October 29 and 30, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.His talks — “The Epistemology of Physics and Scientific Revolutions” on October 29 and “...
Professor Tomas Venclova honored in RussiaTomas Venclova, professor of Slavic languages and literatures and a renowed Lithuanain poet, received the Baltic Star in St. Petersburg last week.The award is for developing and strengthening cultural ties among...
Yale scientist Menachem Elimelech will receive the 2008 Lawrence K. Cecil Award for outstanding contributions to the fields of chemical and environmental engineering at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) on November...
Theodore C. Sorensen, former special counsel, speechwriter and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, will speak at Yale University on November 12, 4:30 p.m., in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School as a Chubb Fellow. The talk is free and open to the...
Halting a medication that treats one ailment because it may worsen another is a treatment trade-off decision that elderly patients with multiple medical conditions would rather take part in, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in a study...