Three researchers in the Yale Program on Aging were honored for their work at the Gerontological Society of American’s (GSA) 56th Meeting in San Diego, California. The GSA meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among...
Celebrated writer Caryl Phillips, whose novels and non-fiction work relate to the long-lasting legacy of the African slave trade, will speak at Yale on February 9 and 10. A native of the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, England,...
The Yale Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care will sponsor the 6th Annual Convocation of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) on February 9, at 4 p.m. in the YSN Lecture Hall, Room 118, 100 Church Street South. The keynote speaker will be...
At the meetings of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., in January, two Yale faculty members, Timothy Snyder and Peter Gay received, respectively, the George Louis Beer Prize for “outstanding historical writing in European...
At the meetings of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., in January, two Yale faculty members, Timothy Snyder and Peter Gay received, respectively, the George Louis Beer Prize for “outstanding historical writing in European...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a Yale researcher $6 million to transplant neural cells in primates in an attempt to replace dopamine lost in Parkinson’s disease. Transplantation of fetal neural cells was carried out on a limited basis in...
On being appointed today by President George W. Bush to the bipartisan commission to examine American intelligence-gathering, Yale University President Richard C. Levin said, “I am honored that the President has asked me to serve our nation, and I look...
Louise Glück, poet laureate of the United States and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will be the next Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence in Yale College, Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead has announced. As such, Glück will teach courses and workshops...
Yale University Dean Peter Salovey has announced a significant increase in financial aid for doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale. The nine-month stipend for both entering and continuing students in the humanities and...
Researchers at Yale have found that decreased activity in muscle mitochondria, the powerhouses of the cell, may be a major factor in the development of type 2 diabetes in young, lean offspring of parents with the disease. They demonstrated a potential...