President Richard C. Levin issued the following statement regarding the Annie Le investigation.To the Yale Community:The New Haven Chief of Police has just announced that Raymond Clark has been arrested in connection with the death of Annie Le. We are...
Presenting a united front in the war on obesity, diabetes and other nutrition-related disorders, seven of America’s leading public health and economics experts are urging passage of taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB). Their report, which suggests...
Yale University researchers have found a molecular mechanism that allows the proper mixing of neurons during the formation of columns essential for the operation of the cerebral cortex, they report in the Sept. 16 online issue of the journal Nature....
A Yale anthropologist has captured photographic images of a rare, cougar-like cat ranging at night in an endangered Ugandan forest.The images of the African golden cat (Profelis aurata) were taken by a digital infrared camera trap set last year by the...
Seyla Benhabib awarded the Ernst Bloch PrizeSeyla Benhabib, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, will be awarded the Ernst Bloch Prize in Ludwigshafen, Germany, on Sept. 25.The prize, one of Germany’s most distinguished...
Award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on September 22.Brokaw’s lecture on the future of journalism will take place at 5 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall Street. The event is free and...
A $64,500 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Program for Museums and Art Conservation will enable Yale to conduct a survey of hundreds of collections of photographs dispersed throughout the University and to create a directory of its vast...
President Richard C. Levin issued the following statement regarding the investigation into Annie Le’s disappearance on September 8.To the Yale community: It is my tragic duty to report that the body of a female was found in the basement of the Amistad...
A tiny bit of genetic material with no previously known function may hold the key to stopping the spread of cancer, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Sichuan University in Chengdu, China report in two papers in the September 7-11 issue of...
Scientists studying cognitive decline that accompanies aging have been interested in nicotinic receptors, part of a key neural pathway that not only enhances learning and memory skills but reinforces addictions as well. The loss of these receptors has...