President Richard C. Levin announced today the appointment of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dean Robert Alpern as dean of the Yale School of Medicine. Alpern, who will assume the deanship at Yale June 1, is the Ruth W. and Milton P....
Yale College sophomore Jacob Leibenluft was one of 20 undergraduates from the U.S. and Canada named a Goldman Sachs Global Leader. Leibenluft joins 100 new Global Leaders worldwide being honored for academic excellence and leadership achievements by the...
Researchers from Yale University, University of Pittsburgh and University of Georgia have reported new data on how the fundamental arrangement of water molecules is affected by the presence of protons. The work appears in Sciencexpress. This research is...
Yale University Professors Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber offer a practical guide to mobilize voters, in their new book “Get Out the Vote!,” to be released April 30 by the Brookings Institution.
Voter participation in the United States is dismal: The...
The European Physical Society has awarded the 2004 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize to Michel Devoret, Yale Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, and to three other scientists for the “realization and demonstration of the quantum bit concept...
Yale University Professors Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber offer a practical guide to mobilize voters, in their new book “Get Out the Vote!,” to be released April 30 by the Brookings Institution. Voter participation in the United States is dismal:...
Noted author Adam Phillips will deliver a lecture at Yale titled “ ‘Great Expectations’ and First Impressions” on May 6. Free and open to the public, the talk is the annual Freud Lecture sponsored by the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and...
The 25th Annual Seton Elm and Ivy Awards will be presented by Yale University President Richard C. Levin and New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. on Wednesday, April 28, noon to 2 p.m. in the Presidents Room of Woolsey Hall. The Awards were established...
Two Yale College seniors and two recent Yale graduates are among 31 Gates Cambridge Scholars selected from candidates around the world to pursue graduate study at Cambridge University in England, beginning October 2004. Gates Cambridge Scholars include...
One of the most widely used cancer chemotherapy agents not only kills cells directly, but also appears to cause cells to transmit a “death signal” to neighboring cells, according to a Yale researcher. The agent, cisplatin, has been used in cancer...