Building upon a grant made in 2003 that established the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale, The Kavli Foundation has announced that it will contribute additional endowment funds to diversify and strengthen the institute’s interdisciplinary brain...
Open Yale Courses, which will be releasing another set of undergraduate courses this spring, has added a new dimension to its offering by engaging in a social networking pilot project with the website OpenStudy.OpenStudy is designed to connect users in a...
Yale professor Jorge Galan has been named winner of the 2011 Koch Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of microbiology.Galan — who is the Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis, professor of cell biology and chair of the...
More than 50 years after the invention of the laser, scientists at Yale University have built the world’s first anti-laser, in which incoming beams of light interfere with one another in such a way as to perfectly cancel each other out. The discovery...
Music lovers all over the world celebrated Franz Schubert’s 214th birthday on January 31. On Wednesday, February 23, music lovers in Connecticut can celebrate again when the renowned pianist Emanuel Ax gives an all-Schubert recital presented by the Yale...
Every year, students and faculty from the Yale School of Nursing travel to La Escuelita (Little School) in Managua, Nicaragua, where they provide health screenings and work with community organizations to offer follow up care.YSN is holding two...
This article originally appeared on the Yale School of Management news site.An article written by Robert J. Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, was recently named one of the “top 20” articles in the 100-year history of the American...
As a child grows, a short stature is not usually cause for concern, but it is often the only sign of a condition called Turner syndrome. Prevalent in girls, Turner syndrome is a genetic defect that short-circuits normal growth and leads to cardiac and...
If Dr. Laura Niklason has her way, vascular surgeons will someday be able to pull human veins off a shelf, whenever they want, to save lives.Niklason is a pioneer in the science — and art — of tissue-engineered replacement of human body components. Last...
Four of Yale’s brightest young scientists were among 118 named today as 2011 Sloan Research Fellows by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The fellowships are meant to encourage “fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding...