Visitors can watch rehearsals of the American Sign Language (ASL) translation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”-a collaboration of mime, dance, body movement and facial expression, all without sound. Rehearsals are taking place Monday through Friday from...
Two Yale faculty members, David Bromwich and R.W.B. Lewis (emeritus), were recently honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for their literary achievements. Bromwich, the Bird White Housum Professor of English and director of the Whitney...
Gay Story Hamilton, chair of the Council of Elders of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut, recently was named to the board of directors of the Endangered Language Fund at Yale University. Hamilton is involved in her tribe’s effort at reviving its language...
A recent finding that intelligence is located in a particular area of the brain is a limited approach that does little to explain the roots of intelligence, a Yale professor says. “It’s like saying the intelligence of a computer is in the silicon chip...
Commonly recommended exercise stress testing for older persons may deter many of them from participating in highly beneficial exercise programs, Yale researchers report. After weighing the benefits and risks of exercise among older persons, Thomas Gill...
A group of distinguished Asian scholars who work in the field of American Studies and law have come to Yale to learn about their subject first hand. The 18 scholars from Beijing, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and...
A memorial service will be held in the fall for E. Turan Onat, a mechanical engineering professor at Yale University. Onat died in New Haven July 4 at the age of 75. A native of Turkey, Onat received his engineering diploma in 1948 and a doctor of...
“School-Based Violence Prevention: Can We Make a Difference?” will be one of the questions addressed at a Yale University-sponsored conference July 18-21. J. Lawrence Aber, a leading reseacher on conflict resolution and violence prevention programs and...
People with mental conditions are 25 percent more likely to use alternative or complementary treatments than those without such disorders, a Yale research team has found. And among those who used alternative treatments for mental conditions, herbal...
“School-Based Violence Prevention: Can We Make a Difference?” will be the question addressed by teachers, principals, program directors and policy makers at a Yale University-sponsored conference on Wednesday, July 19, at 12:45 p.m. J. Lawrence Aber, a...