The elixir of life, the philosopher’s stone, lead into gold — these are some of the alchemical images found in literature from the medieval period through J.K. Rawling’s Harry Potter series.An exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library...
Ambassador John D. Negroponte, YC’60 has been appointed the Brady-Johnson Distinguished Senior Research Fellow in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in International Affairs at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale....
Prize-winning author Jeremy Cohen will deliver three Arffa Lectures at Yale University in February on “Myth, History and Prophecy in Christian-Jewish Relations.” Each of the lectures, which are free and open to the public, will take place in Joseph Slifka...
A team of Yale University astronomers has discovered that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their most powerful stage, meaning the black holes can’t be responsible for shutting down star formation. Until...
Marrying genomics and geography on a grand scale, Yale University researchers have detected often-subtle molecular changes that occur within micro-organisms living in a host of different marine environments.In an upcoming issue of Proceedings of the...
Representatives from Yale outlined their efforts to develop a sustainability plan for the University’s athletics program at the recent National Collegiate Athletic Association convention in Washington, D.C. Sara Smiley Smith, a doctoral candidate at the...
Wynton Marsalis will hold a “musical Q&A” on February 5 at 4:30 p.m. in the United Church on the Green, corner of Temple and Elm streets.This event is free and open to the public. Marsalis is visiting Yale University as a Chubb Fellow. Widely...
By the time it is detected in many women, ovarian cancer has already spread to a point that makes treatment difficult or impossible. In a boost to their efforts to improve ovarian cancer detection and find a cure for the disease, Yale School of Medicine...
The movement of facial skin and muscles around the mouth plays an important role not only in the way the sounds of speech are made, but also in the way they are heard according to a study by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research...
Janet Browne, the Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, will speak at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., on February 4.Her talk, titled “Darwin and the Challenge of Biography,” will be the first in the 2009 series...