Evidence suggests that having a close relative with type 1 diabetes puts individuals at greater risk of developing the disease, but one Yale researcher is investigating whether it’s possible to prevent a genetic disposition from turning into a full-blown...
Priyamvada Natarajan, associate professor of astronomy and physics, and Jaime Lara, a lecturer at Yale Institute of Sacred Music, have been named 2009 fellows by the Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed not only on the basis of...
The Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals at Yale Law School will be called to order at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, May 4, in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St.Students will compete in the Thurman Arnold Prize Finals of the competition. The event is...
“Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” — so goes the catch line of a 1989 infomercial for a product designed as a simple alert system to aid people living alone.The ad, though amateurish, reminds the viewer of what it could be like to be old, infirm and...
Olympic hopefuls flexed their brains, rather than their brawn, when Yale’s Department of Chemistry hosted tryouts for this year’s national Chemistry Olympiad on April 25.The annual competition, which has been sponsored by the American Chemical Society...
Thanks to a partnership between Yale student entrepreneurs and the United Way of Greater New Haven, local residents now have a way of doing two good deeds - reducing environmental waste and enhancing early childhood education - with one simple act.TwigTek...
Goaltender Alec Richards, whose record-breaking 2008-2009 season helped the Yale men’s hockey team to its best-ever campaign, has been signed by the National Hockey League Chicago Blackhawks to a two-year, entry-level contract. He will join the squad next...
If you think of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library as a tomb for old “dead” books where only the most somber of scholars conduct research, curators Nancy Kuhl and Timothy Young hope a visit to their “Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities” might make...
Lynn Nottage, a visiting lecturer at the School of Drama, has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play “Ruined,” about a group of women who were raped and brutalized during the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The Pulitzer board described...
Twenty-five University departments are taking part in the Y-Bike program, which was launched a year ago by the Yale Transportation Options office. The bicycles come fully-equipped with fenders, lights, bell, rack, rear basket(s), odometer, combination U-...