Dr. George Lister, recently appointed as the Jean McLean Wallace Professor of Pediatrics, focuses his research on the factors affecting infants at risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).A 1973 graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, Lister serves...
Kathleen M. Carroll, recently named as the Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, focuses her research on methods to improve the effectiveness of addiction treatment.Carroll graduated summa cum laude from Duke University, received her Ph.D. in clinical...
In awarding Yale’s George Daniel Mostow its 2013 Wolf Foundation Prize in mathematics — one of the field’s premier global awards — the foundation offered this crisp assessment: “Few mathematicians,” it said, “can compete with the breadth, depth, and...
YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books may forward publishers’ book descriptions to us by email.Why Smile?: The...
A new tick-borne infection that shares many similarities with Lyme disease has been discovered in 18 patients in southern New England and neighboring New York by researchers at the Yale Schools of Public Health and Medicine. The report is published in the...
The adulthood of a midge fly is decidedly brief — about three days. But a new study of its mating swarm may yield lasting benefits for analyses of bird flocks, fish schools, human crowds and other forms of collective animal motion.A study of the midge fly...