Ruth Whittemore, M.D., a retired Yale pediatric cardiologist, who provided pre- and post-operative care for the baby who received the first “blue baby” operation, died on December 27, 2001 in Connecticut at age 84. A widely recognized pediatric...
Administrators, faculty, staff and students in public health at Yale will celebrate the life and words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the first floor lobby of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public...
Michael Holquist, professor of Slavic languages and literatures and chairman of the department of comparative literature at Yale, has been awarded an honorary doctoral degree by Stockholm University in Sweden. Holquist is closely associated with the...
As a result of joint discussions this summer designed to improve labor/management relations, Yale University and Locals 34 and 35 of HERE mutually agreed to hire a consultant to assess the past and current labor-management environment, and to suggest...
Some persons with schizophrenia can remember complex sounds, such as intricate bird songs, but not simple words, providing yet more evidence about the complex nature of the mental illness, a study by Yale researchers has found. “This gives you a sense...
A celebration of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Yale Hon. LLD. ‘64) will take place on the Yale campus beginning on Martin Luther King’s birthday, January 15, and continuing through a two-day festival on January 20-21. The first in the...
The intersection of love and the law in works by Spain’s most famous author, Miguel de Cervantes, will be explored in the spring series of DeVane Lectures, to be presented by Roberto Gonz‡lez Echevarr’a, the Sterling Professor of Comparative and Hispanic...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have received a $9 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to help translate research findings about alcoholism into treatment for patients. The five-year grant to John Krystal, M.D...
Many of the risk factors for more advanced breast cancer also apply to an early form of breast cancer known as breast carcinoma in-situ, according to a study by Yale researchers that is the first large scale study of risk factors for this type of early...
The director of Yale University’s Center for the Study of Globalization, Strobe Talbott, will join Yale professors Paul Bracken, Charles Hill and Harold Koh Thursday, January 17 at the Boston Public Library’s Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston St., Boston,...