Yale senior Crystal Howser has had two constants in her life: playing hockey and helping people who are less fortunate.A forward on the Yale women’s Bulldogs, Howser believes humanitarian service is simply a requisite of living in any community.The Yale...
The following is a list of books recently or soon to be published by members of the Yale community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books can forward publishers’ book descriptions to susan.gonzalez@yale.edu....
Global climate rapidly shifted from a relatively ice-free world to one with massive ice sheets on Antarctica about 34 million years ago. What happened? What changed? A team of scientists led by Yale geologists offers a new perspective on the nature of...
Yale University Properties welcomes Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea to 194 York St. in Downtown New Haven.Members of the Press are invited to the Grand Opening ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new shop, which will take place at 194 York Street on Thursday,...
Yale University announced today that it is increasing its annual voluntary payment to the City of New Haven to more than $7.5 million.“While the University is dealing with its own budget challenges, Yale University is a citizen of this community and feels...
Yale scientists have found a way to study within a living organism the wonders of micro-RNAs – tiny bits of RNA that act like a sculptor and shape the activity of hundreds of genes. The work is reported in the March 1 edition of the journal Genes &...
Yale researchers have filled in a missing gap on the molecular road map of Alzheimer’s disease. In the Feb. 26 issue of the journal Nature, the Yale team reports that cellular prion proteins trigger the process by which amyloid-beta peptides block brain...
After an extensive national search, Thomas J. Lynch, Jr., MD, has been named director of Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the new Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, which will open in October 2009. His appointment is effective April 1,...
When it comes to getting to work, it’s arriving on time, not the journey itself, that usually matters most to employees, but Holly Parker, director of Yale’s Transportation Options program, is working to get the University’s carbon-consuming commuters to...
Edward Rugemer wins award for book on civil warEdward Rugemer, assistant professor of African-American studies and of history, has been awarded the 2009 Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians (OAH).The award is for Rugemer’s book...