Some heavy drinkers suffer intense withdrawal symptoms when they try to stop drinking — some, less so. A new Yale-led international study of individuals with alcohol dependence has identified gene variants that may help explain why “detox” from alcohol...
Vladimir Pozner, a Russian-American journalist and broadcaster, will speak at Yale on Thursday, Sept. 27, as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. The event is co-sponsored by the Program on Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the MacMillan Center,...
Guided walking tours, with the goal of adding extra steps and some fun activity and movement to one’s workday, are being offered to Yale staff.
Led by alumna Shana Schneider, the Fitstyle Walking tours also offer a bit of history, vouchers for stops to...
The Yale Women Faculty Forum (WFF) marked the new academic year on Sept. 21 by unveiling a portrait of Otelia Cromwell ’26 Ph.D., the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate from Yale. The portrait, painted by Jennifer Packer ’12 M.F.A., was...
Over the last 20 years, women have increased their presence in governments across Africa, but — like their peers elsewhere — they still lag far behind men. Through its Leadership Forum for Strategic Impact, Yale is working to enhance the knowledge and...
A Yale-led project examining the link between explosive volcanic eruptions and the annual Nile river summer flooding in antiquity has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The project, titled “Volcanism, Hydrology and Social...
Philip Ball, a freelance science writer, will discuss “The Heretical Idea of Making People Artificially” at Yale on Wednesday, Sept. 26, as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.