Regency painter Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), one of the most lauded and imitated portraitists in Europe and a chronicler of fashionable London society, will be the focus of a retrospective exhibition through June 5 at the Yale Center for British Art — the...
General Stanley McChrystal launched his “Conversations on Leadership” series on Feb. 16. The featured guest was best-selling author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson.Mortenson is author of the bestseller “Three Cups of Tea” (with David Oliver Relin of The...
The Office of the Provost, the Department of History, the Yale University Library and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will hold a memorial service for Frank M. Turner on Saturday, March 26, at 11 a.m. in Battell Chapel, College and Elm...
Small ants may use fewer resources, but energy-hogging big ants tend to win evolution’s turf wars, according to a study by Yale scientists.Scientists had believed that, at the population level at least, the body size of individuals made no difference in...
Genre-defying American poet and critic Susan Howe has been named the 2011 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.Announcing the poet’s selection for the Bollingen Prize, the judges wrote, “In more than three decades of writing,...
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro came to Yale School of Medicine today to get a first-hand look at how proposed federal budget cuts would impact the extensive, cutting-edge and life-saving scientific research going on at Yale — and, by extension, at academic...
Faced with the risk of developing side effects, even ones as mild as fatigue, nausea and fuzzy thinking, many older patients are willing to forego medications that provide only average benefit in preventing heart attack, according to a report by Yale...
Imagine a material that’s stronger than steel, but just as versatile as plastic, able to take on a seemingly endless variety of forms. For decades, materials scientists have been trying to come up with just such an ideal substance, one that could be...
To celebrate the Yale School of Medicine’s bicentennial, its alumni magazine, Yale Medicine, devoted its Winter 2011 issue to a photo essay documenting a week in the life of the school.During the week of Sept. 20-24, photographers Julie Brown, Terry...
The Gallery at the Whitney’s newest exhibition explores the relationship of Nature to art through the sketches and paintings of a Yale alumnus.The exhibit draws on field notes and watercolor sketches James Prosek ’97 made in Suriname in late March and...