The link between food marketing and the growing childhood obesity epidemic is the focus of a $6.4 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University.Principal investigators, Rudd Center...
Yale School of Drama dean James Bundy is among five individuals and organizations being honored by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven as artistic “ground breakers.”Bundy, who is also artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, is a recipient of...
Student composer’s work to be premiered in local concertThe New Haven Chorale will perform the world premiere of a commissioned work for chorus and orchestra by Colin Britt, a student of choral conducting at the School of Music.The chorale will present...
A concert to raise money for malaria relief will be held at Woolsey Hall on Saturday, December 13 from 8 to 10 pm. Performers include St Luke’s Chorus and members of the Yale Alumni Chorus. Called the “Tony Blair Faith Foundation Malaria Relief Concert,”...
Two current Yale undergraduates and a recent alumna will be studying in Britain and Ireland next year as either Rhodes or Mitchell Scholars. Jarrad M. Aguirre ’09 is among the 32 Americans selected as Rhodes Scholars for study at Oxford next year, and...
Science fiction writers have long envisioned sailing a spacecraft by the optical force of the sun’s light. But, the forces of sunlight are too weak to fill even the oversized sails that have been tried. Now a team led by researchers at the Yale School of...
In the battle against obesity, Yale University researchers may have discovered a new weapon — a naturally occurring molecule secreted by the gut that makes rats and mice less hungry after fatty meals. The findings are published in the Nov. 26 issue of the...
Yale University will open the historic Mead Visitor Center, 149 Elm St., to the public on December 4, 5–7:30 p.m. for tours and light refreshments. The Open House is being held in conjunction with the City of New Haven’s holiday festivities on the nearby...
Huynh Sanh Thong, considered the preeminent translator of Vietnamese poetry and literature into English and the former director of the Yale Southeast Asian Refugee Project, died on Nov. 17 of sudden heart failure. He was 82 years old. Huynh dedicated much...
The United Way of Greater New Havens’s Leadership Circle has recognized Bruce Alexander, vice president for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development at Yale, and his wife, Christine Alexander, the founder and executive director of New Haven...