Yale University researchers have identified two novel genetic mutations that can trigger hypertension in up to a third of patients suffering from a common cause of severe high blood pressure, they report in the Feb. 11 issue of the journal Science.The...
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy today named Yale professor Daniel Esty as commissioner of the state’s new Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP).The agency will consolidate the state’s various energy branches, including the Department...
The Week Ender For Friday-Sunday, Feb. 11-13F R I D A YBuy unique gifts made by artisans with Reach Out’s World Micro-Market at the International Development and Gift Bazaar. Dwight Hall Chapel, 67 High St. Noon-4 p.m.Hear the Yale Concert Band perform...
Even if you did not have the opportunity to attend the panel on “Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa,” you can learn what four experts on the history and political affairs of the Middle East had to say about the causes of the unrest in the region...
Angelina N. Chambers, assistant professor at the Yale School of Nursing, has traveled to Guam to observe the island’s birthing centers as a unique model for providing family-centered maternity care and also to develop partnerships in the practice of...
Mozart’s masterpiece “Don Giovanni” has been staged many times in the past two centuries, but there’s never been a production like the one the Yale School of Music and Yale Opera will present Friday-Sunday, Feb. 11-13, at the Shubert Theater.Performances...
There are some changes coming to the Broadway area — specifically the Yale Bookstore — according to Abigail Rider, director of University Properties.In a Feb. 9 email to deans, directors and residential college masters, Rider wrote:“In order to most...
A new study has turned the conventional wisdom of breast cancer treatment upside down, finding that many women with the disease may not need to undergo the painful, invasive procedure of having lymph nodes removed from their armpits.What are women to...
The Yale School of Public Health’s Emerging Infections Program (EIP) is recruiting homeowners in nine Fairfield County towns (Bethel, Bridgewater, New Fairfield, Newtown, Ridgefield, Roxbury, Weston, Westport and Wilton) to participate in the Lyme and...
Robert Storr has been reappointed as dean of the Yale School of Art, announced President Richard C. Levin.The Dean begins his second five-year term July 1.“Dean Storr is valued for his refreshing and exciting vision for the school and for opening the...