The decision by Olympic officials to discontinue, on a trial basis, gender testing at the summer games in Sydney, Australia, was long in coming, a Yale physician says. “In reality, gender verification tests are difficult, expensive, and potentially...
Researchers at Yale and the University of Connecticut (UConn) will study clinician/patient relationships under a new $2.8 million initiative funded by the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation. The partnership, based at the...
Oxford, Princeton, Stanford and Yale universities announced today that they would each provide $3 million to launch their “distance learning” venture to provide on-line courses in the arts and sciences to their combined 500,000 alumni. Herbert M....
The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC), an academic-community partnership that promotes research and disease prevention, has been awarded nearly $1.2 million in grants by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). One of the new...
Best-selling novelist and social commentator Tom Wolfe will speak about his life as a graduate student at Yale, on Wednesday, October 11, at 4 p.m. in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall Street. Wolfe’s talk is titled “Maggie, a Girl of the...
Vincent Ilardi, a visiting fellow and emeritus faculty member in the history department at Yale University, will be delivering two lectures on Renaissance vision on September 28 and October 5 this fall. Ilardi’s lectures, titled, “Renaissance Vision...
Yale University is joining with a Stanford University start up company, SKOLAR, in creating an Internet database and search system that will enable nurses across the globe to get instant expert information on patient care. The new venture, SKOLAR, RN is...
New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. will head an impressive panel on the state of entrepreneurship and economic development in New Haven’s high-tech sectors, hosted by the Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES). Set for Wednesday night, September 27,...
Former Stanford University President Gerhard Casper has been named a Successor Trustee of the Yale Corporation, the University’s governing board, President Richard C. Levin announced today. Casper, a graduate of Yale Law School whose eight-year tenure...
Non-overweight women who are vulnerable to the effects of stress are more likely to have excess abdominal fat, and have higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, a study conducted at Yale suggests.
While past studies have examined cortisol response in...