Whether or not a woman’s ovaries are removed during hysterectomy depends partly on where she lives and her surgeon’s experience, according to a Yale School of Medicine study. Removal of healthy ovaries-oophorectomy-is believed to be the most effective...
Yale Professor John Carlson is one of five recipients of this year’s McKnight Investigator Award, which is granted by The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience to gifted, mid-career scientists. Carlson, a professor in the Department of Molecular,...
STATEMENT BY RICHARD C. LEVIN, PRESIDENT, YALE UNIVERSITY IN RESPONSE TO THE NLRB DECISIONS IN THE CASE OF YALE UNIVERSITY AND THE GRADUATE EMPLOYEES AND STUDENTS ORGANIZATION AND THE CASE OF THE BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION November 29, 1999 New...
In the largest genome project of its kind to date, Yale scientists have succeeded in fully characterizing the function of the yeast gene, furthering understanding of how human cells work. “While the human genome project so far has focused on the...
The following talks at Yale University November 30-December 3 are free and open to the public. Pulitzer Prize-winning author will be featured in two events Tracy Kidder, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his nonfiction...
Yale Law Professor Dan Esty is hosting a series of “trade and environment” policy briefings November 29 through December 3 at the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Seattle, Wash. “Globalization offers great promise, but only if other...
Yale University announced today that it will receive $6 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to restore and improve the historic buildings at the Yale Divinity School, enabling the work to begin this summer. With this grant, the University is now prepared...
Treatment for obsessive thinking and compulsive behavior is now available in a group setting at Yale psychological services. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) involves excessive worry about being harmed in some way. People with the disorder may...
Yale and Rice University scientists have demonstrated molecular devices that act as reversible electronic switches, making it possible to build smaller computers that are less expensive. The vast improvements and reduced cost seen in computers and...
A Yale research team has succeeded for the first time in turning supercritical carbon dioxide, which is CO2 under tremendous pressure, into gel form. The discovery could have widespread application in a number of industries, including oil drilling, in...