Willie Ruff, professor at the Yale School of Music, will present the annual James Snead Memorial Lectureship on Sunday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m. in Dwight Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public. The talk, titled “The Church Bass: A Yankee...
The classic image of communication between brain cells shows a neurotransmitter crossing the synapse and binding to receptors on the surface of a neighboring neuron. Yet scientists have had only a murky picture of the events within the secreting...
Yale University has announced the appointment of the following three faculty members to endowed professorships: law professors Jules L. Coleman and William. N. Eskridge Jr., and School of Management professor Dick R. Wittink. Coleman, a specialist in...
The following talks at Yale University the week of Sept. 21-27 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. African culture wars is topic of talk by anthropologist Yale alumnus Andrew Apter, an anthropologist who is a specialist on West...
Morse Named Recipient of Highest Engineering Award in Field New Haven, Conn. – On a nearly vertical slope in the Alps virtually inaccessible by helicopter, two mountain climbers get sick and need medical supplies badly. Normally, the sick climbers...
Science education programs for New Haven students from elementary school through Yale College will be funded by a four-year, $1.8 million grant to Yale University from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The programs start with third through...
A French physicist who has been hailed as the “Isaac Newton of our time” for his ability to reduce a broad range of complex phenomena to a few simple truths will deliver the first Silliman Lectures of the 1998-99 academic year at Yale University....
- Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced today that the section of the old Farmington Canal running through the Yale campus would be made available for the Rails to Trails project. “We support the Rails to Trails project, we hope that it...
James Gustave Speth, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, has been named dean of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, President Richard C. Levin announced today. Speth’s appointment is effective July 1,...
Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and the Institutes for Pharmaceutical Discovery in Branford, Conn., have discovered a possible new mechanism for the body to control its fat stores by inducing the growth of new blood vessels, which...