A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a Japanese senator, the president of Haverford College and two other distinguished alumni of Yale University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will receive the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal—the Graduate School’s...
Heart patients are particularly vulnerable to depression and should be screened, and if necessary treated, to improve their recovery and overall health, according to a scientific advisory issued Monday by the American Heart Association and co-authored by...
Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have found that two-year-olds with autism looked significantly more at the mouths of others, and less at their eyes, than typically developing toddlers. This abnormality predicts the level of disability, according to...
Karl Ulrich Mayer, the newly appointed Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology, conducts research in the areas of social stratification and mobility, the sociology of aging and the life course, social demography, occupational structures and labor...
Five Yale students have their feet firmly back on the ground after experiencing weightlessness while testing their self-designed and constructed experiment onboard a gravity-defying NASA aircraft this summer.The students - known as the Yale Drop Team -...
David A. McCormick, recently appointed the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology, studies cellular and network mechanisms of cortical function in the brain.His laboratory uses a variety of in vitro and in vivo approaches, from patch clamp...
Jane R. Taylor, who has recently been designated as the Charles B.G. Murphy Associate Professor of Psychiatry, specializes in brain research related to drug addiction and various psychiatric disorders.Her laboratory focuses on the dysfunction of cortico-...
Melina Shannon-DiPietro, who has been co-director of the Yale Sustainable Project for the last five years, will assume full responsibilities as director on Oct. 1. Shannon-DiPietro succeeds Josh Viertel, founder and co-director of the Sustainable Food...
In the spirit of an old-time barn raising, members of the Yale and New Haven community pitched in to help raise a pavilion at the Yale Farm on Sept. 20. The structure still awaits a roof, but that didn’t stop participants from holding a dance there that...
Scenes of everyday life and of spiritual transformation are featured in the paintings in the exhibition “The Story of Our Journey: The Art of John Swanson,” on exhibit Oct. 1-Dec. 12 at the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM).The child of a Mexican mother and...