While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch schoolteacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a strange-looking object that baffled professional astronomers. Two...
The Yale Law School launched a new clinic this semester to train students to address the needs of an underserved and often stigmatized population — Connecticut’s military veterans.Yale’s program is one of a handful of veterans’ clinics now operating in...
Four of today’s best-known science writers — Richard Conniff, Jennifer Ouelette, Annie Murphy Paul and Jonathan Weiner — will read from their new books as part of “Great Science Writing at Yale” on Friday, Nov. 5.The event will be held 4-6 p.m. in the...
A study by Yale School of Medicine researchers reveals that the illnesses and injuries that can restrict the activity of older adults or land them in the hospital are linked to worsening functional ability, especially among those who are physically frail...
Thirty years after it was given a name, the epidemic of AIDS and its related illnesses continues to kill millions of people around the world. But nowhere are the numbers as high today as in sub-Saharan Africa, and in particular, the nation of South Africa...
For Yale chefs, it’s a chance to vie for some serious bragging rights. For the campus community, it’s an occasion to indulge in flavorful fare. And for the Yale-United Way Campaign, it’s an opportunity to raise funds for local agencies that are working to...
Yale College Dean Mary Miller has announced the recipients of three annual awards for outstanding junior faculty: the Arthur Greer Memorial Prize, the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize, and the Poorvu Family Award.Each prize carries an award of funding to...
Novelist Mark Helprin, whose work has been called “visionary” and “incandescent,” will speak about writing, and his own beginnings as a writer, at a Master’s Tea at Branford College, 80 High St., on Nov. 10 at 4 p.m.Co-sponsored by the Francis Fund and...
In the latest of the “Pink” events marking October as National Breast Cancer Awareness month, members of the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation put pink casts on patients last Friday. Here, 13-year old Jerrell Brodie...
Staff members have the opportunity to provide the University with valuable feedback regarding the work culture at Yale through the 2010 Workplace Survey, which will be held Nov. 1-14.The survey measures attitudes toward such critical dimensions of the...