Long-time Yale faculty member Jonathan Spence, one of the world’s leading experts on Chinese history and culture, has been selected by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to deliver the 2010 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.The NEH-sponsored...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced the appointment of Rakesh Mohan as Professor in the Practice of International Economics and Finance in the Yale School of Management, and as Senior Fellow in the Jackson Institute for Global...
An international team led by Yale University has, for the first time, measured the mass of a type of supernova thought to belong to a unique subclass and confirmed that it surpasses what was believed to be an upper mass limit. Their findings, which appear...
A Yale-led study reveals, for the first time, the process by which a particular genetic mutation causes seizures and ataxia, the neurodegenerative disorder believed to have afflicted Abraham Lincoln. The study appears online in the Early Edition of the...
Flowering plants may have appeared on earth tens of millions of years earlier than the fossil record indicates, suggests a new analysis by researchers at Yale University and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, published the week of March 15 in the...
PepsiCo announced today a voluntary policy to stop sales of full-sugar soft drinks to primary and secondary schools worldwide by 2012.This marks an important development in supporting safe and healthy nutrition for children around the globe and has been...
Pietro De Camilli named as Javits investigator Pietro De Camilli has been designated a Javits Neuroscience Investigator by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). De Camilli, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology and...
“Diary of an Infidel,” a short, one-act play adapted from a story by surgeon-writer Dr. Richard Selzer, will be performed in the McNeill Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, on April 24 at 8 p.m. and April 25 at 2 p.m....
Yale University is seeking adults between the ages of 70 and 89 to take part in a lifestyle intervention study to determine whether exercise or health education can prevent or delay major mobility disability in older adults.Little is known about whether...
Almost a decade after the first draft of the human genome was published, scientists now know that many differences among individuals arise not only from the content of their genes but where and when those genes are expressed.Now a Yale-led team of...