Using artificial cell-like particles, Yale biomedical engineers have devised a rapid and efficient way to produce a 45-fold enhancement of T cell activation and expansion, an immune response important for a patient’s ability to fight cancer and infectious...
Erin Lavik Erin Lavik, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Yale, was honored recently by the Connecticut Technology Council as one of their 2008 Women of Innovation.The annual event, now in...
The National Institute of Nursing Research has awarded Yale University School of Nursing (YSN) $3.4 million to compare the effectiveness of Internet-based coping skills training versus an Internet education program for diabetic children.The goal is to...
Rémi Brague, a leading authority on the Abrahamic religions, will deliver two lectures at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall St., on March 4 and 5.The first lecture, titled “God and the Humanities,” takes place on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m., and...
Yale University will host a free, public panel on the recently released Mitchell Report on March 4 at 5 p.m. in the Sterling Law Building, Room 122.The Mitchell Report has brought national attention to the role of performance-enhancing substances in...
Predators have considerably more influence than plants over how an ecosystem functions, according to a Yale study published Feb. 15 in Science that offers a revolutionary shift in thinking on the subject. Environmental cages...
The 11th annual Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Colloquium, “Liman at the Local Level: Public Interest Advocacy and American Federalism,” will be held at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., on March 6 and 7.This year’s Colloquium will examine state and local...
A lecture exploring the complex emotional transformations wrought by war, another on “Why Psychoanalysis Has No History” and the screening of a film about Freud disciple Marie Bonaparte are the three spring-term events being presented by the Muriel...
The fifth annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education at Yale University will be held March 28 and 29, with most events taking place in the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The title of this year’s conference is “Public...
John E. Pepper Jr., former Yale vice president of finance and administration and current co-chair of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, will return to campus March 25–26 as Dwight Hall at Yale’s third annual Curran Distinguished Mentor.The...