Awards and Honors.Charles Small elected president of IASACharles Small, director and founder of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, was elected president of the newly formed International Association for the Study of...
Last spring, when graduation and the inevitable job search were just a few months away, English major Laura Marris couldn’t have imagined that one of the questions on her first post-graduate interview would be: “Do you really want to carry rocks around...
The Cleveland Foundation has awarded an Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry to Elizabeth Alexander, professor and chair of African American studies and professor of American studies and English.The prize was established 75 years...
Yale University scientists have discovered how one protein plays a key role in repairing damage to chromosomes that can cause different types of cancer, they report in the September 26 online edition of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology....
President Richard C. Levin and Jane Levin were honored at a ceremony on Sept. 24 marking the 350th anniversary of Hopkins School in New Haven.The Levins received Hopkins Medals in recognition of their roles as former Hopkins trustees and parents.Hopkins...
A disproportionate number of HIV patients come from racially and economically disadvantaged groups. Now, a new research and education institute at Yale has received a $1.3 million grant to address a documented shortage of research scientists from this...
The dedication of the house that first-year students at Yale School of Architecture designed and built themselves will take place at 12 King Place (between Washington Ave. and Truman St.), on September 27 at 5:30 p.m.Since it was initiated in 1967, the...
Yale’s endowment earned an 8.9% investment return for the year ending June 30, 2010.The endowment value rose to $16.7 billion as a result of investment gains of $1.4 billion, operating budget distributions of $1.1 billion, gifts of $136 million, and...
Students and teachers in Connecticut’s public schools have fewer unhealthy snack food options in their cafeterias, according to a study by Yale researchers just published in the Journal of School Health.Researchers from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy...
Scientists have wondered for some time why certain seismic waves travel more quickly through the core-mantle boundary, a thin layer of the Earth’s interior that lies between about 1675 and 1800 miles below the surface. Now a new study by Yale University...