Like the many of the 47 new companies it has helped create since 2007, the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI) has outgrown the adjective “start-up.”The institute, envisioned as a place where Yale students could get advice on implementing their business...
The student founders of 10 enterprises took part in the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute’s summer program this year. (See related story, “As student business ideas evolve and expand, so does YEI.”) Here are the start-ups and how they are “pitching”...
Engineering graduate Zachary Rotholz ‘11 will open a retail business in New Haven on Sept. 1. The shop, Chairigami, will sell Rotholz’s unique brand of affordable modular furniture, which he describes as “cardboard furniture for the urban nomad.” The line...
Paul Bloom, professor of psychology and author of “How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like,” will explore the science of our moral behavior in this term’s Devane lectures series, titled “Moralities of Everyday Life.”Bloom will give...
Yale University researchers have identified a key genetic gear that keeps the circadian clock of plants ticking, a finding that could have broad implications for global agriculture.The research appears in the Sept. 2 issue of the journal Molecular Cell.“...
Yale researchers have discovered the source of signals that trigger hair growth, an insight that may lead to new treatments for baldness.The researchers identified stem cells within the skin’s fatty layer and showed that molecular signals from these cells...
Tennis star Venus Williams revealed that she is pulling out of the U.S. Open because she has been diagnosed with Sjogren’s Syndrome, a disorder of the immune system.A great deal of research is underway at Yale School of Medicine into Sjogren’s and other...
Awards & Honors archive.New Grant to study healthcare disparities in Hispanic women with breast cancerNita Maihle, professor of obstetrics/gynecology and of pathology, Beth Jones, professor at the School of Public Health, and Jason Wilken, professor...
Former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger gave an address before Yale faculty, students and World Fellows during a ceremony to celebrate the establishment of the Kissinger archives and the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy.The archives...
When it comes to mountaineering, Yale professor Joseph G. Manning is a self-described “newbie.” But this summer, each step he’s taken toward a mountain summit has helped prepare him for a climb in September that he hopes to remember for the rest of his...