Gamma knife radiosurgery is topic of community health education lectureThe Yale-New Haven Hospital Auxiliary will sponsor a community health education lecture on Thursday, Oct. 16, 6-8 p.m., in the hospital’s East Pavilion cafeteria, at the 20 York St....
A team of Yale scientists has found that certain countries and some U.S. states stand to benefit from the use of compact fluorescent lighting more than others in the fight against global warming. Some places may even produce more mercury emissions by...
Alanna Schepartz, the Milton Harris ‘29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry at Yale, has been awarded the 2008-2009 Frank H. Westheimer Prize, Harvard has announced. Established in 2002 in honor of Harvard chemist Frank Westheimer, the prize is awarded annually...
Both the well-known and less-celebrated achievements of Noah Webster, creator of the first comprehensive American dictionary, will be celebrated at Yale on October 16–17 in commemoration of his 250th birthday. The two-day fête, titled “Shaping a Language...
Yale researchers have harnessed the power of 21st century computing to confirm an idea first proposed in 1916 — that plants with rapid reproductive cycles evolve faster. Their findings appear in the October 3rd edition of Science. “Our study highlights...
Yale University is continuing to work toward an agreement with the government of Peru regarding Yale’s collection of artifacts excavated from Machu Picchu. Yale’s representatives had a productive meeting on September 27 in New York with Peru’s Foreign...
The October issue of US Airways’ in-flight magazine features a comprehensive profile of the City of New Haven and of the positive impact that Yale has on the city’s attractiveness as a place to live, work and visit. Full Article
Students at the Yale School of Architecture handed over the keys to a house that they designed and built to its new owners at a ceremony on Sept. 25 at 20 King Place (at Truman Street).The dedication of the house will mark the completion of the school’s...
Mark Hochstrasser, the newly named Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, is engaged in research at the crossroads of biochemistry and genetics aimed at understanding at a molecular level how specific eukaryotic proteins are...
Angus C. Nairn, recently named the Charles B.G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry, is noted for his research on the molecular actions of dopamine in the basal ganglia.Nairn has extensive experience in the study of enzymology, protein chemistry and the...