Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has announced the finalists for the 11th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African-American experience.The...
Retroviruses such as HIV that are already within cells are much more easily transmitted when they are next to uninfected cells than if they are floating free in the bloodstream. “Cell-to-cell transmission is a thousand times more efficient, which is why...
A team of astronomers has discovered a group of rare galaxies called the “Green Peas” with the help of citizen scientists working through an online project called Galaxy Zoo. The finding could lend unique insights into how galaxies form stars in the early...
Synchronicity in nature is seen in beating hearts, the flashing of fireflies’ lights, the ebb and flow of infectious disease—and the simultaneous rise and fall of populations across vast reaches of space. While scientists have identified some factors that...
As part of its continuing engagement in global health issues, Yale University’s Global Health Leadership Institute is partnering with Tsinghua University to launch a four-year leadership development program in healthcare management for women in China. The...
Five Yale School of Medicine investigators have received new Pilot Project Program grants from Women’s Health Research at Yale. They will study a variety of women’s health areas and gender differences that affect disease and behavior. The research is...
In a major advance in obesity and diabetes research, Yale School of Medicine scientists have found that reducing levels of a key enzyme in the brain decreased appetites and increased energy levels. Reductions in the levels of the enzyme...
Physician-scientist David A. Hafler, MD, a leader in the effort to better understand the molecular basis of multiple sclerosis (MS), has been named chief and chair of neurology at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and Yale School of Medicine (YSM). His...
This issue marks both the debut of “Working @ Yale” in the Yale Bulletin & Calendar, and the launch of a new partnership between the Office of Human Resources and Administration Communications and the Office of Public Affairs.
In May, the two offices...
Art conservators, like medical doctors, are governed by the principle “First, do no harm,” and they go about their task of preserving art and artifacts using delicacy and cautionBut for museum conservators, the boundary between harming and healing a work...