Michael J. Donoghue, an expert in biodiversity at Harvard University, has been named the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor in Yale’s burgeoning Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB). Donoghue joins the department at a time of growth in areas...
A football autographed by NFL linebacker Pepper Johnson and a week’s lodging in London are among the items to be auctioned Friday, November 19 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Yale School of Medicine’s Seventh Annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction. “The...
The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies is hosting a symposium on Friday, November 12 to mark the 20th anniversary of a watershed climate report by the National Academy of Sciences that first identified the human contribution to global...
The Whiffenpoofs, the nation’s oldest collegiate a cappella singing group, will return to Yale November 12-14 to celebrate 90 years of harmony. The world-renowned group dates back to 1909, when the four men who made up the elite Varsity Quartet agreed...
Heart attack sufferers can benefit as much from taking one aspirin a day after their trauma as from taking aspirin along with a powerful anti-clotting drug, a Yale study shows. The study, one of the largest of its kind, appears to settle the controversy...
The Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES) today announced the launch of its Y50K Entrepreneurship Competition. The business plan competition, to be held in April, will award winners a total of $50,000 in cash and other prizes, including professional...
Prevention of bone loss caused by steroid treatments for such diseases as asthma and arthritis will be the topic of a conference given by the Yale School of Medicine. The conference will be held on Friday, Nov. 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the New...
Yale scientists have received a $3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to test triarchic instruction, a teaching method that focuses on children’s creative and practical strengths, rather than their academic skills. “When we expand the...
“Lonesome George,” the only remaining male of a subspecies of the giant Galapagos tortoise, may be turning up his nose at potential mates on nearby islands because the females most closely related to him are on an island 200 miles away, say Yale...
Award-winning architect Daniel Libeskind, designer of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, will meet with reporters to discuss his work on Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 10 a.m. in the Main Gallery of Yale University’s Art and Architecture Building, 180 York St. Reporters...