The 2008 Nobel Prize winner in economics and renowned political columnist and professor of economics Paul Krugman (’74) will return to his alma mater on November 9 to receive The Henry E. Howland Memorial Prize, one of the highest honors that Yale bestows...
During the first week of the Workplace Survey, over 25% of all non-faculty staff members provided valuable feedback about the work culture at Yale by filling out the survey. With a goal of reaching 75% of all staff members, the survey has been extended by...
More than two dozen Yale scientists mingled this weekend with nearly 600 science journalists in New Haven during ScienceWriters2010, the combined annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the Council for the Advancement of...
Archive of Awards & HonorsVeenema Smith receives grantDr. Megan Veenema Smith, assistant professor of psychiatry and child study, is a recipient of a federal grant designed to assess mental health needs of mothers in New Haven.The grant from the...
Children as young as age 2 are seeing more fast food ads than ever before, and restaurants rarely offer parents the healthy kids’ meal choices, according to a new study from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The new evaluation, the most...
The University will observe Veterans Day on Thursday, Nov. 11, with a ceremony at noon on Beinecke plaza that will feature music, remarks and the ceremonial laying of the wreath on the Yale Alumni War Memorial.Among the faculty and students who will be...
Last fall the leaders of Yale, University College London (UCL) and their affiliated hospitals signed a landmark agreement to form a transatlantic research partnership.Now one of UCL’s top scientists will be coming to Yale to give the first in the...
Nationally known lung cancer expert and director of the Yale Cancer Center Thomas Lynch, M.D., is available to speak about just-released government findings that CT scans can lower mortality from lung cancer through earlier detection.The National Cancer...
While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch schoolteacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a strange-looking object that baffled professional astronomers. Two...
The moment of truth came for Yale researcher Warren Jones over 13 years ago. He was a sophomore at Yale pursuing a double major in art and engineering when a small seminar on autism changed the course of his life.“Like many undergraduates, I really didn’t...