To help improve treatment for premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and the more serious premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), researchers at Yale are examining the body’s emotional and physiological responses across the menstrual cycle. “We are trying to...
Yale University Divinity School will host a lecture by historian Jessie G. Lutz titled “Mission Dilemmas: Bride Price, Minor Marriage, Concubinage, Infanticide and the Education of Women” on July 13 at 5 p.m. in Marquand Chapel, 409 Prospect Street. The...
Documents discovered by Yale faculty member Mary Habeck, and collected into a new book, offer historic evidence of the duplicitous role the former Soviet Union played in the Spanish Civil War. Habeck, a scholar of European and military history, is co-...
Six Yale researchers were recently elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences for distinguished and continued achievements in original research. The new members include three researchers from the Yale School of Medicine: Peter Cresswell,...
Yale Law School has announced the winners of the Knight Fellowships in Law for Journalists for the 2001-2002 academic year. The Fellows will be Adam Freed, KNSD-TV/NBC, San Diego; Scott Hiaasen, The Palm Beach Post; Nadya Labi, Time Magazine; and Maro...
People with sleep-related breathing disorders, such as habitual snoring and sleep apnea, are at higher risk of suffering a stroke, according to a study by a Yale researcher published in the June issue of the journal Stroke. “Sleep-related breathing...
Jonathan Spence, the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and a renowned authority on modern Chinese history, is to be made a Companion of the Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), an honor given by the Queen of England for...
The Broadway Merchants Association and Yale University invite neighbors from the community to join in a day-long festival celebrating the completion of the latest development phase of the Broadway retail district on Saturday, June 23. The festivities...
The media is invited to participate in a special ceremony to commemorate the town’s place in the founding of the “Collegiate School” in 1701, which eventually became Yale University. Janet Lindner, director of Yale’s Tercentennial Office, will make the...
Women who breastfeed their children, particularly if the first child is breastfed for more than 13 months, have a reduced risk of breast cancer, according to a study by a Yale researcher and published in the British Journal of Cancer. The study...