Renowned experts from around the country will present innovative women’s health research as part of the Third Yale Conference on Women’s Health & Fitness. The conference will run Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 26-28 at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155...
Brain scans of children born prematurely show key areas of the brain are much smaller than those of children born at full-term, a study by Yale researchers has found. The researchers conducted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans on 25 eight-year-olds...
Renowned pianist Boris Berman, professor at the Yale University School of Music, will deliver a lecture and demonstration titled “The Making of a Pianist, the Making of a Musician” on October 27 at 5:30 p.m. in Sudler Lecture Hall, William L. Harkness...
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...