Douglas L. Rothman Yale will receive a $2 million High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grant from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to fund the purchase of a 7-Tesla human magnetic resonance (MR) system that will facilitate...
HMS Dreadnought On September 21, Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale, will give a lecture at Yale on 20th-century British naval history. Titled “HMS...
Leading scientists, including several from Yale School of Medicine, will gather in Washington, D.C., September 10-12 to identify new approaches for the treatment of Tourette Syndrome (TS), a familial neurological disorder that begins in childhood and is...
When cigarette smokers first stop smoking the number of nicotine receptors in the brain is significantly higher when compared to non-smokers, which may explain why it is so tough to quit, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers...
Children who are anxious before surgery experience a more painful, slow, and complicated postoperative recovery, according to a Yale School of Medicine study published this month in Pediatrics.The study is important, said lead author, Zeev Kain, M.D.,...
Team 10, the influential architectural group that defied Modernist dogma, is the subject of the first exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture for the academic year 2006–07.Taking place in the gallery of Yale’s landmark Art & Architecture...
Mark Brandon Mark Brandon, professor of geology and geophysics at Yale, is designated this year’s Kirk Bryan Award for Research Excellence from the Geological Society of America (GSA) for his work on erosion rates and their relationship...
For minority students, simply completing a writing assignment designed to affirm a positive identity and sense of “self integrity” near the beginning of the school year raised their school performance and reduced the racial achievement gap by 40 percent,...
Thomas Gill, M.D. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that persistent bathing disability among the elderly can increase the risk of long-term nursing home admission by 77 percent, but interventions aimed at prevention and...
The 1,318 members of the Yale College Class of 2010, chosen from among 21,101 applicants, were welcomed to campus today.There are 660 men and 658 women among the freshmen, who represent all 50 states and 50 foreign countries. Almost one-third (31.1...