A Yale research team has transplanted stem cells from a primate to repair the protective sheath around the spinal cord in the same animal, an accomplishment that some day could help people with spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis. “The concept...
Anna Deavere Smith, the actress, playwright and teacher known for her ability to converse and listen to others and then transform the conversations into startling, introspective dramas, will teach and perform at Yale School of Medicine November 15-18....
Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University, will host a meeting to explore an emerging issue in architecture and historic preservation: what to do about public buildings constructed 30-40 years ago. The “Architecture of the...
A new therapy for seasonal affective disorder (SAD) that delivers treatment through a light wrapped around a patient’s knee is being tested by Yale researcher Dan Oren, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. Oren, an expert...
Yale University and the University of Chile will sign an agreement November 10 to collaborate in the training of Chilean students in astronomy and astrophysics. The agreement also provides for the two institutions to have joint access to prime...
The election may be over, so what happens next? Yale University will hold a faculty-led discussion on what the election results mean to the business world, on November 14 at 11:30 a.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue....
Tamar Alexander, the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale, will deliver a free, public lecture on “The Dybbuk: Spiritual Possession in Jewish Tradition” on November 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at...
Two Yale professors with joint appointments at the Peabody Museum of Natural History have been awarded $900,000 to reform science education in New Haven public schools. The grant from the National Institutes of Health, which is the largest in the museum...
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale will hold its Second Annual International Conference, “The Arming of Slaves from the Classical Era to the American Civil War,” on November 16-18. Drawing scholars from...
Yale has established a joint center for research and training in plant biology with China’s Peking University that will actively foster collaborative research among scientists at the two universities and will train the next generation of international...