Yale College will welcome the Class of 2002 on Aug. 28, when 1,305 entering freshmen arrive in New Haven for orientation. The freshmen class was selected from among 11,947 applicants. “We are honored to receive such an accomplished group of students...
Classes at Yale College, the undergraduate college of Yale University, will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 2. Freshmen check into their dormitories starting at 9 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 28. At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, President Richard C....
Beta-blockers are not prescribed for many older patients who could benefit from their use after heart attacks, according to an article in the Aug. 19 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In fact, the study found that only...
Although resuscitation is often used with patients suffering from severe congestive heart failure, nearly one in four of those patients who were hospitalized said they did not wish to be resuscitated if their hearts stopped beating, according to a study...
Reporters and photographers are invited to the first in a series of open houses to showcase major renovation and construction projects completed recently at Yale University. Architects and construction managers, as well as representatives from Yale’s...
DreamWorks Pictures has donated a 35mm print of the feature film “Amistad” to Yale University’s Film Studies Program and Film Study Center, thanks to executive producer and DreamWorks co-head Walter Parkes (Yale College, Class of 1973). The print will...
Yale University officials today said they were pleased that a federal court had dismissed a civil suit filed by four students who contested the University’s requirement that undergraduates live on campus. “We are extremely pleased that the court has...
U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., will visit the genetic counseling and testing center at the Yale School of Medicine to highlight the need for legislation to safeguard the privacy of genetic information. Such legislation would protect...
Using “knockout” mice – a strain of mice in which a single gene is disabled in order to observe its role during development – researchers at the Yale School of Medicine and Vertex Pharmaceuticals have discovered that an enzyme called Caspase-9 plays...