A team of Yale University biologists has identified 16 odor receptor genes in fruit flies – the first found in any insect – thus providing a promising avenue for controlling insects that carry deadly diseases and cause widespread crop damage....
Marc Matsil, chief of the Natural Resources Group of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreations, will be the next speaker in the semester-long Distinguished Lecturer lunchtime series at Yale University, titled “The Restoration Agenda: Focus...
The following talks at Yale University from March 1-10 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Restoring ecosystems in the ‘Big Apple’ is topic of forestry talk Marc Matsil, chief of the Natural Resources Group of the New York City...
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Oscar Arias Sanchez will deliver a Chubb Fellowship address at Yale on Wednesday, March 24, at 8 p.m. in the Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Arias’s talk, “Peace in the Age of Globalization: Confronting Poverty,...
A program designed to reduce six risk factors for delirium in hospitalized patients 70 years old or older successfully reduced the number of patients who developed symptoms by 40 percent compared to a control group, a Yale study has shown. Published...
The following talks at Yale University March 10-23 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Noted physicist to speak about science in reunified Germany Gisbert Freiherr zu Putlitz, a noted German physicist, will speak on the topic “...
Novelist and critic A. S. Byatt will deliver the Finzi-Contini lecture at Yale University on Monday, April 5, at 4:30 p.m., in the auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Her topic will be: “Old Tales and New Forms: Storytelling in...
The Yale School of Architecture will host a public program to explore the University’s immediate and long-term plans for its physical facilities, April 9, 10 and 11. The program, called “Yale Constructs: Planning and Building for the University’s...
Martin Price, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, and Fred C. Robinson, who is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, were each awarded the William Clyde DeVane Medal by the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on March 2. The medals were...
Q New Haven students in grades K-12 from more than 40 public schools will exhibit investigative science projects on Tuesday, March 9, at Commons Hall, corner of Grove and College streets. Photographers and reporters are invited. Olin Corporation and...