The famed king of big band swing is back at Yale by popular demand. On February 11, the Yale University Concert Band will raise the spirit of Glenn Miller and the 418th Army Air Forces Band as they lived and played in New Haven more than a half century...
A new course offered by Yale’s International Security Studies Program aims to restore the subject of “grand strategy” to the academic agenda during a post-Cold War era that the course’s teachers contend sorely needs broad strategic thinking in...
The total lunar eclipse January 20 will cast the Moon in shadow for almost 78 minutes, says Yale Astronomy and Physics Professor Bradley Schaefer. “No equipment is needed to observe the eclipse, although binoculars do improve the view,” said Schaefer. “...
The United States embargo against Cuba has contributed to several public health catastrophes, among them an epidemic of blindness due to a dramatic decrease in the supply of nutrients, a Yale physician says. There also have been epidemics of infants...
The Yale School of Medicine will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., with a keynote speech by William H. Gray, president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund. The annual observance will be held Monday, January 17 from 10...
Paul Sigler, a Yale University scientist and one of the world’s leading structural biologists, died suddenly January 11 while walking to his laboratory. He was 65. Sigler, who was Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale...
A protein that was previously thought to prevent hardening of the arteries has been shown to actually cause the disease, according to a Yale study. Interferon-gamma, a key immune factor protein produced by certain white blood cells, was thought to...
U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala has appointed Yale School of Nursing Associate Dean Margaret Grey, DrPH, PNP, FAAN, to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research. The council determines how federal dollars for...
The number of “near-Earth asteroids” that have a chance, though miniscule, of colliding with Earth this century is half what was originally estimated, a Yale researcher says. “They are the kind of asteroids you hear about in movies that are about two-...
A Yale researcher has found up to 100 new and very distant RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way that can give valuable clues about the galaxy’s history and composition. Using a large format camera in a telescope at the Llano del hato Observatory in the...