A talk on Friday, March 27, titled “Do Babies Matter in the Academy?” will be the next offering in the Women Faculty Forum’s lecture series “Breakthroughs and Barriers: Gender in Academia.”The series aims to open up a conversation on women’s advancement...
The controversial phenomenon described by some as “opting out” — the supposed trend of professional women leaving the workplace to devote their energies full time to family care-taking — will be explored at a conference taking place Friday-Saturday,...
The Lupus Research Institute has granted a three-year, $300,000 Novel Research Award to support the work on the disease being done by Tarek Fahmy, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Joseph Craft, professor of medicine and immunobiology and...
More prominent displays may be needed to help increase consumer awareness of nutritional information in fast food restaurants, according to an observational study from Yale University that appears in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health....
Scientists used to think most of the exchange of information between cells was conducted at the surface, where cell receptors receive signals from other cells. Now Yale researchers report in the March 20 issue of the journal Cell how a switching station...
Yale School of Music Dean Robert Blocker has announced the alumni recipients of the first grants to advance the cause of music under the “alumniVentures” program.In the inaugural year of what Blocker hopes to be an annual program, alumniVentures received...
The public is invited both to listen and participate as three acclaimed scientists share the passion and excitement of their research in Yale’s Science Saturdays series. The presentations will be held on April 4, 11 and 18, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in...
Jock Reynolds, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Yale University Art Gallery, today announced the creation of a new curatorial department devoted to Indo-Pacific art, enabled by the generosity of Yale alumnus Thomas Jaffe, Class of `71. Mr. Jaffe has provided...
New Haven residents and Yale historians will gather March 26 at 5:30 p.m. at the New Haven Museum at 114 Whitney Ave. for a unique celebration of the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama. Sharing their eyewitness accounts and photographs, New...
Yale researchers to speak at stem cell symposiumYale scientists will join researchers from around the world to offer their views of the rapidly evolving world of stem cell research at StemConn 09, Connecticut’s International Stem Cell Research Symposium....