Yale faculty member Robert P. Forbes recently received an award from the Connecticut chapter of the National Association of Multicultural Education for his role promoting diversity in higher education. Forbes teaches in the American studies and history...
Two Yale University undergraduate students recently were selected to receive scholarships made possible by the Connecticut State Department of Higher Education’s Minority Teacher Incentive Grant program. Priscilla Noriega, a Pierson College senior from...
Researchers at Yale and the Salk Institute have determined the structure of a set of proteins called the Arp2/3 complex that helps cells move, paving the way for understanding how cells find bacteria and protect against infections. “This is a dream come...
The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center of the Yale School of Medicine will distribute more than $400,000 in “micro-grants” to Connecticut agencies and groups to support projects and programs that increase the quality and years of healthy life and/or...
Yale physics professor Nicholas Read and colleagues have received the 2002 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for their outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics. “It’s great to have recognition for work...
“Man and Beast,” a symposium that will take place at Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, December 7-8, will gather scholars of many disciplines from Europe and across the nation to examine a subject that has preoccupied mankind...
The Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention at the Yale School of Medicine has received a five-year, $12.5 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to...
In the November 16 issue of Science magazine, William D. Nordhaus, the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, provides the first published economic analysis of the Kyoto-Bonn protocol to slow global warming. The protocol, signed by 178 of...
Key Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiator Martin S. Indyk, immediate past U.S. Ambassador to Israel, will present his observations and analysis of the conflict in the Middle East in a talk titled “Israel and the Intifadah After September 11” on December 6...
To help people quit smoking, a team of experts from Yale have created the Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY) and the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC). The Yale TTURC, which is part of CENTURY, was...