Lung cancer in non-smokers is topic of talk by surgeon Dr. Daniel Boffa Dr. Daniel Boffa, assistant professor of thoracic surgery, will speak on “Why Do Non-Smokers Get Lung Cancer” on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Yale New Haven Shoreline Medical Center, 111...
Soledad O’Brien, anchor and special correspondent for CNN Worldwide, will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Tuesday, November 10.O’Brien’s lecture, “Diversity in the Media: Behind the Scenes & in Our Lives,” will take...
Two Yale School of Medicine physicians have been awarded a $4.1 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study a new pharmacological treatment for newly released HIV-positive inmates with alcohol dependence who are...
Yale University today appointed Thomas G. Mattia, a former Coca-Cola Company senior executive with international public affairs, communications and social responsibility background, as its Chief Communications Officer and Special Advisor to President...
Yale researchers have been awarded a $320,000 grant from The Kiev Foundation to study new ways to treat Williams Syndrome, a rare, thus far incurable chromosomal disorder that causes cardiovascular and connective tissue problems.Williams Syndrome (WS)...
President Obama has declared the H1N1 outbreak a national emergency. Yale University is offering specialists in infectious diseases, emerging viruses, global health and epidemiology to speak on H1N1. They can address many aspects of this outbreak,...
The least healthy breakfast cereals are those most frequently and aggressively marketed directly to children as young as age two, finds a new study from Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The researchers’ evaluation of cereal...
A dramatic shift in the way Americans receive news and information, stimulated by the growing dominance of the Internet and other electronic media, is the focus of the conference “Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?” at Yale...
The Yale Opera will present fully staged scenes from eight different operas over two nights at the end of October.On Friday, Oct. 30, Yale Opera will stage one act of three operas: Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” (“The Marriage of Figaro”), Ambroise Thomas...
How do you become one of the brightest young scientists in the country? Knowing what you want to do before you’re 10 years old doesn’t hurt — at least in Yale astronomer Marla Geha’s case.She remembers watching the launch of the first Space Shuttle from...