Women like to believe they would report or confront someone who was sexually harassing them, but when faced with an actual situation, out of fear they rarely voice objections, according to a study by a Yale University researcher. The findings published...
Preschoolers have difficulty distinguishing imagination from reality, particularly if asked about events some time after they occurred, which could have implications for eyewitness testimony, a researcher at Yale has found. Amy Sussman, who conducted...
Paul Hawken, an environmentalist, educator, entrepreneur, and best-selling author, will speak at the 100th commencement exercises of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) May 21. F&ES commencement exercises will...
One way to anticipate the progress of global warming is to examine the evidence for changes in global climate over the last 550 million years and compare it with levels of carbon dioxide, a professor at Yale said in a recent journal article. “Carbon...
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded the Yale Combustion Group in the Department of Engineering a $2.4 million grant to help develop lightweight, readily rechargeable micro-combustion batteries for the soldier of the future. “Conventional...
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded a total of $3 million to Yale electrical engineering and applied physics professor Mark Reed to continue research in the area of nanotechnology, a field involving the controlled manipulation of...
Depression has a far larger impact on ‘presenteeism’ or reduced productivity while at work, than on absenteeism, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. “The findings...
Thomas Pollard, formerly of the Salk Institute, Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins Medical School, will join the Yale University faculty this fall in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. A graduate of Harvard Medical...