Elizabeth Howe Bradley, professor of public health and faculty director of the Global Health Leadership Institute at Yale, has been named the next master of Branford College, announced President Richard C. Levin.Her appointment will be for a period of...
The Yale School of Music and its longtime quartet-in-residence, the Tokyo String Quartet, will honor the one-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan with a special benefit concert on Monday, April 11 at 8 p.m. in Battell...
Seven documentaries, including an Oscar-nominated film co-produced by Yale Environment 360, will be screened during the 2011 Global Health Film Festival at Yale, April 7-9.Curated by students from the Yale Schools of Public Health, Nursing, and Forestry...
Male monkeys looking for a good time might benefit from spending a bit longer getting to know a potential mate, according to a new study published online in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.The time males spend around a...
Yale researchers Alanna Schepartz and Scott J. Miller were recently announced as the recipients of a prestigious $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation. The grant supports a three-year, pioneering study that aims to create artificial enzymes using...
The Yale Library has announced that it is providing online access to scholars and students of the 64 reel-to-reel tapes of noted Guinean scholar, Djibril Tamsir Niane. Made in the 1970s, the tapes include field recordings, interviews, ceremonies and...
Faced with the prospect of costly in vitro fertilization (IVF) but with no help from insurance coverage, some infertile couples feel pressure to transfer multiple embryos in an attempt to ensure that the IVF is a success. This can lead to higher rates of...
Yale neurologist Steven Novella populates his podcasts and blogs with aliens, ghosts and creationists for a single purpose: to help resurrect the lost art of scientific thinking.“I am interested in how otherwise intelligent people can get things so...
The Yale School of Medicine will premiere a new film that has been created in honor of its bicentennial. Titled “Ancient Art, Modern Science: 200 Years of Medicine at Yale,” the film will be shown on Tuesday, April 5, at 4 p.m. in Harkness Auditorium, 333...
Addictive eating behavior and substance dependence have similar patterns of brain activity, finds a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale. The study is published in the Archives of General Psychiatry and is the first to link...