Yale College announced it has accepted 761 of 5,257 early action applicants for the Class of 2015. A total of 2,952 students will be given the chance for reconsideration in the regular decision round in the spring.To continue expanding access and...
Web users around the globe will be able to help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planets thanks to a new online citizen science project called Planet Hunters that launches Dec. 16. at www.planethunters.org.Planet Hunters, which is...
Yale’s museum gift shops contain a treasure trove of unique gifts for holiday shoppers looking for something out of the ordinary to give to their loved ones this holiday season.The gift store in the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St., has a wide...
This article is from Qn, a publication of the Yale School of Management.Should you take charge? Should you work to build consensus? Victor Vroom, the BearingPoint Professor of Management at Yale School of Management, argues that effective leaders are...
A new study led by Yale School of Medicine reveals a persistent anomaly in the mortality rates of male Latino youth: Although the U.S. Latino population has an overall favorable health profile despite its socioeconomic challenges, young Latino males...
On the eve of an all-star a cappella benefit concert at Alice Tully Hall on Saturday, the legendary Yale Whiffenpoofs, will entertain guests at the annual Family and Children’s’ Holiday Party. The group will be entertaining pediatric patients and their...
More than 93% of American households experienced “substantial economic shock” in 2008-2009, according to a Rockefeller Foundation-supported study headed by political science professor Jacob Hacker.The study report, titled “Standing on Shaky Ground:...
Former Yale professor and Nobel laureate John B. Fenn died on Dec. 10, in Richmond, Virginia, at age 93.Fenn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a technique known as Electrospray Mass Spectrometry (ESMS) that sped up the...
Nearly 14 billion years ago, the universe began with a bang — a big one.Scientists believe that the universe and everything within it began as an extremely hot, dense “soup” that eventually gave rise to galaxies, stars, planets and life and that continues...
A three-year study by Yale School of Medicine researchers has found that vaccinating pregnant women against influenza is over 90 percent effective in preventing their infants from being hospitalized with influenza in the first six months of life....