Scientists dream of the day when they can create designer proteins capable of inhibiting harmful interactions, modifying substrates or guiding cellular machines to where they are needed within the body. Though that dream may be far down the road, Yale...
A young black man with the grades and the desire to attend the Yale School of Medicine in the 1800s faced seemingly insurmountable odds, but the power of relationships is what made it possible for Courtlandt Van Rensselaer Creed to beat those odds, said...
In the autumn of 1609, the Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Gallilei turned his telescope to the heavens, deciphering the cratered face of the moon, the four satellites of Jupiter and other features of the sky.The discoveries Galileo made 400...
The work of noted photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) will be highlighted in an exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.Titled “Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans 1939-1964,” the...
Translating basic research into new technologies that advance our health and welfare has been part of Yale’s “DNA” for centuries, and the pace of innovation at the University continues to accelerate dramatically. Visit the “Yale Innovators” website....
Liu Yandong, state councilor for the People’s Republic of China, was awarded a Howland Fellowship during a visit to campus on April 15.That day, at the Yale Center for British Art, she gave a talk titled, “Deepening People-to-People Exchanges and Cultural...
Academy award-winning actress and Yale alumna Jodie Foster will visit the campus on Wednesday, April 29, when she will be honored by the University’s Film Studies Program and take part in a conversation with members of the Yale community.The conversation...
The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded $125,000 to Yale biomedical engineers Mark Saltzman and Michael Levene for research on the obstacles to drug delivery in regions of the brain affected by Parkinson’s disease. Saltzman and Levene will develop new...
A symposium titled “Photography, Memory and the Black Panther Party’s Visit to the People’s Republic of the Congo, 1971” will be held April 30-May 1 at the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale (AACC).The event marks the 10th anniversary of the...
This spring marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of “All Our Kin,” Carol Stack’s path-breaking ethnography of the survival strategies of African-American women living in poverty in urban America. A conference honoring the legacy of Stack’s work...