The trauma that a majority of drug addicts suffer in early life has now been shown to increase their vulnerability to drug addiction, Yale researchers report in a new study. “Using well-established animal models, we’ve found strong evidence that early...
Comedian Bill Cosby will visit Yale University on Friday, November 10 to appear at a benefit for Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership at Woolsey Hall, corner of Grove and College streets, at 8:00 p.m. Cosby is donating his time for this...
The third annual Yale Physics Olympics Competition, which is designed to stimulate interest in physics among high school students and to support physics teachers, will be held October 21. About 200 high school seniors from Connecticut and New York will...
Protein toxins found in bacteria that are the most common culprit in food poisoning attack and destroy DNA, a study by Yale researchers shows. The finding, published in the journal Science, is significant because little is known about how these bacteria...
Photographers and reporters are invited to the Yale campus at 2 p.m. on Thursday, October 19 to see University bakers working on the 300-pound birthday cake that is being prepared for Saturday’s campus-wide open house. The giant, uniquely shaped...
Yale University announced today that the Yale College Class of 1954 is providing a $70 million gift to support new science buildings and other major University priorities, marking the largest class gift in Yale’s 300-year history. The gift is the...
Yale University has been awarded $4.6 million from the Human Brain Project to help organize the huge volume of neuroscience research data being generated by scientists. The Human Brain Project, which is coordinated by the National Institute of Mental...
Peter Singer, among the most influential and controversial living philosophers, will deliver the Dwight Terry Lectures at Yale this year from October 31 to November 9. Titled “One World: The Ethics and Politics of Globalization,” the series comprises...
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University is hosting the following series of events throughout this academic year on the theme of “Emancipation and Abolition.” October 19 Peter Hinks, Hamilton...
The Program for Humanities in Medicine at Yale University is sponsoring a symposium on Sunday, October 22, at the Yale Medical School on the nature of creativity in medicine and art. The symposium, which will gather health care professionals and artists...