Yale University will hold a memorial event celebrating the life and work of recently deceased Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai on October 24 at 4:30 p.m. in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. At the “Homage to Amichai,” Benjamin Harshav, the...
Cancer epidemiologist Sir Richard Doll, who was the first to identify smoking as a leading cause of lung cancer, will receive the C-E.A. Winslow Medal from Yale University Oct. 19. The award is the first Winslow medal conferred by the School of Medicine...
Melasyn(tm), a water soluble, synthetic melanin that was first developed as a skin cancer preventative by Yale School of Medicine researcher, John Pawelek and his colleagues, has now hit the national cosmetics market as the key ingredient in a make-up...
Richard J. Wood, dean of the Yale Divinity School since 1996, will leave the University to become president of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia in January 2001. “Dean Wood has been an outstanding leader of the Yale Divinity School...
Teasing people about their general appearance, more so than making fun of their weight and size, may play a role in binge eating disorder, a study by Yale researchers shows. “What we discovered from interviewing women with binge eating disorder is that...
A national survey of 3,000 adults on what they know about child development shows serious gaps in basic knowledge, says a Yale psychiatrist and president of a group that acted as the chief scientific collaborator on the survey. Kyle Pruett, M.D., a...
In her recently published “Harems of the Mind,” Yale professor Ruth Bernard Yeazell examines how a mysterious Middle Eastern institution captivated the Western imagination and put its mark on European culture. From the defeat of the Ottomans by the...
Yale will hold a campus-wide open house for the public on Saturday, October 21 to launch the celebration of the University’s 300th birthday. “We invite all our neighbors and friends to spend the day exploring our campus and all it has to offer,”...
The Yale Physics Department’s Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory will host the 33rd meeting of the Symposium of Northeastern Accelerator Personnel October 9-12. The objective of the symposium is to assemble a wide spectrum of engineers, physicists and...
Hundreds of alumnae from around the globe will converge on Yale University Oct. 5-8 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). F&ES is the oldest, continuous forestry school in the country....