Prominent journalist and editor Fareed Zakaria will speak at Yale’s Battell Chapel, on the corner of Elm and College streets, tonight at 7 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship program, his talk, “Why Do They Hate Us? America in a New World,” is...
Maya Lin, designer of some of the nation’s most renowned public monuments, will be speaking at Yale tonight at 7:30 p.m., as part of the Tercentennial celebration’s William C. DeVane Lecture series. Most closely associated with the Vietnam Veterans...
Yale neurovirology expert Anthony van den Pol and colleagues have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a virus which can lead to deafness, mental retardation and brain diseases such as...
Environmental protection programs recently enacted by the Chinese government augur well for the future of the giant panda, according to the article, “Giant Pandas in a Changing Landscape,” published in the November 16 issue of Science by a Yale faculty...
Naomi Schor, one of the foremost scholars of French literature and critical theory and one of the pioneer feminist theorists of her generation, died suddenly in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 2, 2001 at the age of 58. At the time of her death,...
Early improvements in health-related quality of life for epilepsy patients were sustained over several years of treatment with the antiepileptic drug levetiracetam, according to new research presented today by Yale School of Medicine researchers at the...
The Yale Whitney Humanities Center has canceled “Man and Beast,” a symposium scheduled for December 7-8, owing to the sudden death on December 2 of the symposium’s originator, Naomi Schor. The symposium was to have gathered scholars from many...
There is no evidence that adult primates are able to create new neurons in the neocortex, the most sophisticated part of the brain, Yale researchers have found in a study published in the December 7 issue of Science. The results do not support widely...
Two events taking place this coming week will finish the Yale lecture and discussion series “Democracy, Security and Justice: Perspectives on the American Future” for this term. On Sunday, December 9, Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor...
Two current Yale students, Jennifer Nou and Shanya Strom, and two recent alumni, Zachary Kaufman and Krishanti Vignarajah, have been named winners of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for study in a British university. Kaufman, of Morgantown, West...