A new exhibition featuring an array of gemstones, minerals and ores — including one of the finest gemstones ever discovered in North America — opens on Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.The mineral hall is the final stage...
It was 50 years ago that Judge Guido Calabresi graduated from the Yale Law School (YLS), where he later served as dean. To mark that anniversary, the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale recently acquired a significant collection of early Italian law books...
Ania Bleszynski-Jayich, a postdoctoral fellow in physics, is one of five American women who have been honored by L’Oréal U.S.A. with a 2008 Fellowship for Women in Science.Bleszynski-Jayich has developed new techniques for creating the extreme conditions...
Yale University is one of five recipients of a $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to enhance informatics research tools for neuroscientists around the world. The five-year grant administered by the University of California-San Diego...
Yale has been one of United Way of Greater New Haven’s staunchest supporters of Success by 6 (SB6), an initiative that is working to ensure that young children in the area enter kindergarten ready for school.Experts have long known that children’s...
Yale College has received a $1 million gift from an anonymous donor in honor of Sharon Oster, Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management.The gift will establish the Sharon Oster Resource Fund...
The Reverend Ian B. Oliver will be installed as pastor of the University Church in a special service of worship on November 16.The public is invited to attend the service, at 2:30 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. Installation is...
A study to help nurses hone their heart-monitoring skills has received the largest grant in the history of the Yale School of Nursing — $3.9 million. The funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health will...
Speth to give public lectureJames Gustave Speth will give a talk at the New Haven Museum next week.Speth is the Carl W. Knobloch Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of...
Widespread prejudice directed at obese children and adults is the theme of a special supplement to the November issue of Obesity. The supplement, devoted exclusively to bias and prejudice toward obese persons, and the emergence of new science on this...