Volcanic ash that encased and preserved sea life in the Silurian age 425 million years ago near Herefordshire, UK has yielded fossils of an ancient sea spider, or pycnogonid, one of the most unusual types of arthropod in the seas today. Silurian...
W. Mark Saltzman, Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was named the Biomedical Engineering Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2004, the Society’s highest award....
Researchers at Yale and Syracuse Universities found the first direct evidence for a mutation in mitochondrial DNA that directly affects blood pressure and cholesterol levels. It has long been known that several metabolic traits including high...
The Committee on International Health (CIH) Annual Fall Symposium will highlight international research from the Student Travel Program, and honor former members and Yale professors, the late Robert Shope and Jordi Casals. The symposium, poster session...
The University of Illinois will be bestow the 2004 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Alumni Achievement Award on Arthur Galston, Eaton Professor Emeritus of Botany in the Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and professor...
Receptors in the brain that are highly sensitive to alcohol may function differently in a person with a family history of alcoholism, according to a Yale study published this month. The study included 45 healthy subjects, some with a family history of...
Yale’s Women Faculty Forum will hold a colloquium titled “Gender: A Useful Category of Analysis 1988/2004” on October 20, 6- 9 p.m. at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208. Taking its title from Joan Scott’s 1988 essay, “Gender as a...
Yale University announced today that The Starr Foundation of New York City has made a $5 million award to Yale over three years in support of the University’s World Fellows Program. Each year the World Fellows Program brings 16 to 18 highly...
Yale researchers have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to study bathing disability in elderly persons and ultimately to enhance safe and independent bathing among older persons. Disability in bathing-the need for...
A strong advocate for the protection of human subjects in research studies, Robert Lange, associate clinical professor of diagnostic radiology, died October 6 in New Haven at age 69. “Bob was a patient and caring teacher and scientist, as well as a...