The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential to depict the original coloration of fossilized birds and...
The Smilow Cancer Hospital is the recipient of a $1 million contribution from United Technologies Corp. The money will help patients throughout the region by expanding clinical space for Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of...
More than 150 Muslim and Christian leaders, including some of the world’s most eminent scholars and clerics, will gather at Yale University July 28 –31 to promote understanding between the two faiths, whose members comprise more than half the world’s...
President Levin announces faculty appointmentsPresident Richard C. Levin recently announced several faculty appointments.Rolena Adorno, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, was reappointed as chair of the Department of Spanish and...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found signs of an apparent connection between bullying, being bullied and suicide in children, according to a new review of studies from 13 countries published in the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine...
Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent – all without initial involvement of DNA. Yale University researchers describe Friday in the journal Science how bacteria accomplish this amazing feat – and in doing...
When nurse Denise Walsh arrived at Redemption Hospital in Liberia, Africa, which is now just emerging from years of civil war, the basic systems that help hospitals run smoothly and effectively were nowhere to be found. Most beds were empty - except in...
Within human cells, tiny membrane-bound compartments called vesicles shepherd biomolecules from place to place. How these vesicles form, move and finally fuse to deliver cargo at a particular destination largely remains a mystery, now being investigated...
A gift from a Yale alumnus will support research by Yale and Israeli scholars on homeland security and counterterrorism.The gift from Daniel Rose, chair of Rose Associates Inc., and a 1951 graduate of Yale College, will fund a three-year partnership...
Successfully confronting today’s environmental and social challenges requires a re-examination of the values and worldviews that shape our perceptions of nature and society, according to a new Yale report, “Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain...