A new exhibition opening at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History explores what we know, what we don’t know, and what we think we know about one of the world’s greatest space mysteries: black holes.Titled “Black Holes: Space Warps & Time Twists...
A team led by Yale School of Medicine professor Frederick L. Altice, M.D., has received a five year, $4.2 million grant from the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to study ways of curbing the HIV epidemic in states of the former Soviet Union –...
New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. met with Yale College students Tuesday evening to listen to their accounts of the compliance check conducted by city police officers and other officials early Saturday morning at a downtown nightclub that had been rented...
Andrew Phillips knows how to make molecules. During the nine years he spent at the University of Colorado at Boulder, his lab synthesized a total of 25 complex molecules, many of which have biologically useful properties.Now, as a new professor of...
With the sounds of bagpipes in the background, President Richard C. Levin and officials from Yale and the city came together for a ribbon cutting ceremony on Oct. 4, marking the official opening of the newly constructed Yale Health Center at 55 Lock St....
According to recent media reports in China, Professor Shelly Kagan of Yale is now the most popular foreign teacher in that nation.A course titled “Death” by Kagan, the Clark Professor of Philosophy, has been one of the offerings in the Open Yale Courses...
Vintage posters from around the world promoting movies with a biblical theme are on view in the exhibit “Reel Religion: A Century of the Bible on Film,” on view through Nov. 19 at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.The exhibition features over 50 vintage...
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Oct. 16, for Jean Mieko Conklin, a former Yale staff member who held positions as an executive assistant and research assistant. Conklin, who died on July 22, was 83 years old.The service will take place at 3 p...
Carlo Petrini, founder and president of Slow Food, an international movement dedicated to restoring healthy practices of food production and consumption to modern life, will present a talk titled “Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable...
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale has received a $256,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the impact of food packaging changes on food purchases and access to healthy foods. This is part of a larger $1.5 million...