As a general rule, children with autism fare better with visual stimulation than they do with auditory information — and that’s where tools such as the iPad can help, says Dr. Fred Volkmar, director of the Yale Child Study Center.While other children may...
Yale senior Kevin Olusola of Morse College has been making musical waves ever since, at age 12, he became both principal saxophonist and the youngest musician to ever be a part of the United States Wind Band, a professionally touring band of the best high...
Margo Klar, a second-year M.P.H. student at the Yale School of Public Health, has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Exploration grant to pursue a project designed to reduce delivery-related infections in developing countries.Founded by the Bill &...
The Secular Student Alliance at Yale presents Jesse Bering, Director of the Institute of Cognition and culture at Queens’s University, Belfast, on the psychology of souls, destiny and religious belief in his novel “The Belief Instinct”There will be...
It can be quite jarring for a parent or caregiver to look in the rearview mirror while driving and see their child roaming around the backseat free of their safety restraints. A study on child self-unbuckling by Yale School of Medicine researchers reveals...
This weekend, members of the Yale Class of 2011 who majored in art will exhibit the senior projects they completed as requirements for graduation.The show will continue through May 2 at the Gallery of Holcombe T Green, Jr. Hall, 1156 Chapel St. A...
This story appeared in the March/April issue of Medicine@Yale.As the School of Medicine’s bicentennial year draws to a close, Yale’s venerable Child Study Center (CSC) has begun celebrating a milestone of its own — its 100th anniversary.Over the last 100...
The size and shape of the human cerebral cortex, an evolutionary marvel responsible for everything from Shakespeare’s poetry to the atomic bomb, are largely influenced by mutations in a single gene, according to a team of researchers led by the Yale...
Scientists at Yale University and in Grenoble France have succeeded in creating a movie showing the breakup of actin filaments, the thread-like structures inside cells that are crucial to their movement, maintenance and division.Actin filaments are the...
Yale College Dean Mary Miller emailed this document to the Yale community on April 28.Final Report of the Committee on Hazing and Initiations Submitted to Dean Mary MillerApril 21, 2011Judith B Krauss, ChairThomas BeckettRodney CohenAlison ColeJohn...