Why is it that two people can consume the same high fat, high-calorie Western diet and one becomes obese and prone to diabetes while the other maintains a slim frame? This question has long baffled scientists, but a study by Yale School of Medicine...
Standard therapeutic techniques decrease cravings of cigarette smokers by regulating activity in two separate but related areas of the brain, a new study led by a Yale University researcher shows.Smokers who are taught cognitive strategies, such as...
As Haiti rebuilds from the devastation of January’s earthquake, a Yale study finds that the country’s most vulnerable children will likely face unique and additional risks in the forms of gender-based violence against women, child trafficking and poor...
Fifteen teachers from the U.S. and nine from Ghana have convened on the Yale Campus for a seminar hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition about the Transatlantic Slave Trade.For more information see the...
The U.S. Dept of Education has awarded more than $9 million to the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale for expansion and development of five of its studies councils in the areas of Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin...
More than 90 internationally renowned scholars and intellectuals of diverse expertise will convene on the Yale campus from August 23-25 for a three-day conference examining antisemitism in the world today.Titled “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity...
The Yale School of Architecture (YSA) Gallery in Paul Rudolph Hall, 180 York St., will feature exhibitions in the fall term celebrating the life and work of two legendary master architects with deep ties to the School: lighting designer Richard Kelly (...
Cancer can call upon a bewildering array of genetic tricks to wreak havoc, but Yale researchers show in the August 8 online edition of the journal Nature that the disease can become dependant upon a tiny gene that allows it to adapt and proliferate.The...
It turns out that watching paint dry might not be as boring as the old adage claims. A team led by Yale University researchers has come up with a new technique to study the mechanics of coatings as they dry and peel, and has discovered that the process is...
This fall the Yale School of Architecture will offer more than a dozen free lectures, symposia and panel discussions that are open to the public. They include a two-day symposium on the great lighting designer Richard Kelly, which coincides with a...