Joan Steitz “Beyond Bias and Barriers: The National Academy of Sciences Report on Women in Academic Science and Engineering” will be the topic of a panel discussion to be presented by the Women Faculty...
An executive education program focusing on the condition and dynamics of global forests will be offered in the spring by Yale University’s Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry. The program, which will consist of two week-long courses at Yale in March...
Global warming 55 million years ago suggests a high climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide, according to research led by Mark Pagani, associate professor of geology and geophysics at Yale and published in the December 8 issue of Science.For some years,...
Runner Christian McEvoy, who left San Francisco five months and nearly 3,500 miles ago to raise awareness and funds for cancer survivors at the Yale Cancer Center (YCC), is due to arrive in New Haven December 12.Beginning with a ceremonial 1.5 mile run...
Voluntary screening for HIV should be a routine part of the medical care of all adults, not just those at high risk, according to a study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine.The team reports in the December 5 Annals of Internal Medicine that...
The “godfather” of school reform James P. Comer, M.D., the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, has won the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education.The prestigious award honors Comer’s commitment to...
Robert A. Berner, the Alan M. Bateman Professor of Geology and Geophysics, a pioneer in the study of the geologic history of atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide, is being honored with a two-day symposium December 8 and 9 on the occasion of his...
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale will bestow Golden Apple Awards Thursday, December 7, on the winners of its first “Seeds of Healthy Change” contest, which is designed to generate creative ideas to battle the global obesity epidemic.At...
Alan E. Kazdin, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Child Psychiatry, and Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale, has been named President of the American Psychological Association (APA), the largest association of psychologists worldwide...
Thomas M. Gill, M.D. With a structured exercise program, inactive older people at high risk for becoming disabled can improve their physical functioning and reduce their likelihood of having difficulty...