Addictive behaviors in women involving tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs and overeating will be the focus of a new five-year, $2.5 million faculty training grant awarded to Yale University researchers in the Department of Psychiatry.The grant, funded by the...
Yale believes the humane use of animals in research is more than justified by the benefits it yields to humankind. Virtually all medical advances of the last century would have been impossible without animal research. From antibiotics and blood...
Yale Professor Marcia Inhorn, a leading scholar in the field of medical anthropology, has been named the first Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge in honor of her...
When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant as the dinosaur’s appearance. Over a few beers with fellow paleontologists one night, he blurted out the...
As part of a multi-year preparation for a major renovation and expansion currently underway, the Yale University Art Gallery undertook a thorough review of its vast holding of paintings, sculpture and artifacts, only a small percentage of which have ever...
Yale faculty member J.D. McClatchy has received the 2010 Ambassador Book Award for Poetry from the English-Speaking Union of the United States for his book of poems “Mercury Dressing” (2009).The Ambassador Book Awards recognize important literary works...