Alanna Schepartz knows that some of the most interesting science happening today is being done at the intersection of different disciplines.The Milton Harris ‘29 PhD Professor of Chemistry, who is also a professor in the Department of Molecular Cellular...
Throughout the yearlong debate on health care reform, the physician’s voice has largely been unheard. But now doctors have an opportunity to shape how reform efforts will translate for patients and society, maintains Cary Gross, M.D., associate professor...
Last week Dr. Stephanie Spangler, deputy provost for health affairs, and Rich Jacob, associate vice president for federal relations, talked to New Haven community leaders about what the historic health care reform legislation will mean for residents of...
As the U.S. government works through the next steps of implementing the newly signed health care reform legislation, the University expects there will be only modest change in the near future for faculty and staff members who receive their health care...
“[I]t’s damn hard to get things done and harder still to get them undone. … I think that’s what the Republicans were frightened of. They think President Obama has a chance of making health care reform do for him [what] … the Social Security Act of 1935...
“Luminous Transportations,” a site-specific installation by artist Jo Yarrington, is on view at Yale Divinity School’s Marquand Chapel from April 5 through April 27. The exhibition is curated by author and architectural historian Judith Dupré, an M.Div....
“The Current Contours of U.S.-Mexican Relations: The Drug War, Undocumented Migration, and Prospects for a Common Agenda,” will be the topic of a lecture at Yale presented by David Brooks, U.S. correspondent for La Jornada. The talk, which is free and...
Faculty appointments President Richard C. Levin announced the following appointments: Laura Engelstein, the Henry S. McNeil Professor of Russian History, as chair of the Department of History. Her term, which begins on July 1, will be for three years....
Yale researchers have found that services to assist with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing and walking, are needed for all older persons at the end of life, regardless of the conditions leading to their deaths. The team also found that...
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, whose novel “Things Fall Apart” is the most widely read book in African literature, will speak at Yale on April 14, as a guest of the Chubb Fellowship.Free and open to the public, his talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the...