Cosmic Contraceptive?? Extremely massive black holes in the centers of galaxies may serve as “cosmic contraceptives” in the early Universe, suppressing the birth of new stars. The blue beam of light in this Hubble Space...
Chirag Parikh, M.D. Despite a high risk for cardiovascular death, patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are frequently excluded from cardiovascular trials, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report...
Hajime Sasaki, Chairman of the Board of NEC Corporation Hajime Sasaki, Chairman of the Board of NEC Corporation, will deliver the Distinguished Sheffield Fellowship Address, “Toward an Era of Symbiotic...
Kenneth S. Rogoff, the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will present two Arthur M. Okun Lectures at Yale on the globalization of monetary policy.Free and open to the public, the lectures will be...
Maurice R. (“Hank”) Greenberg, through his family foundation, and The Starr Foundation are each donating $25 million to Yale to create the Maurice R. Greenberg Yale-China Initiative, advancing the University’s collaborations with China in critical areas,...
The Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism (CCT) announced today that John Hollander, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale, has been named Connecticut’s new poet laureate. The poet laureate, an honorary position established by the...
Yale University will continue its celebration of the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin with a presentation of an original play, “Franklin in Love,” on October 20 at 3 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St.The program, which will...
Blocking the effect of individual immune system proteins that normally recognize viruses and bacteria produces surprisingly different effects on the severity of autoimmune diseases such as Lupus, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the...
The Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) has received a five-year, $13-million continuation award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to examine the impact of aging and alcohol use among those with and without chronic HIV...
Leptin, a hormone critical for normal food intake and metabolism, exerts a strong effect on appetite by acting in the mid-brain region as well as in the hypothalamus, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Neuron.“Finding that metabolic hormones...