Most animals, like humans, have separate sexes — they are born, live out their lives and reproduce as one sex or the other. However, some animals live as one sex in part of their lifetime and then switch to the other sex, a phenomenon called sequential...
Poet, librettist and Yale professor J.D. McClatchy has been named President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.A professor of English at Yale and, since 1991, the editor of The Yale Review, McClatchy succeeds another Yale faculty member and...
This event has been postponed due to the Ambassador’s Official Business. The future of U.S.-Japan relations under the administration of President Barack Obama will be the topic of a lecture by His Excellency Ichiro Fujisaki, the Ambassador Extraordinary...
Rev. Frederick Streets conducts ethnographic study as Fulbright ScholarThe Reverend Frederick J. Streets, who served as the University chaplain from 1992 to 2007, returned recently from South Africa where he was a Fulbright Scholar and visiting faculty...
A team of Yale University researchers has found that school-based programs for obesity prevention and reversal are generally effective and are an important component in battling what many regard as a national obesity epidemic among young people.In recent...
Ira Flatow, host and executive producer of “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” on National Public Radio, will give a public lecture on campus on Tuesday, February 10.Titled “Talking Science in A Science-Challenged World,” Flatow’s talk will begin at 4 p....
“Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes,” an exhibition examining the suburb as a catalyst for new work by artists and architects, will be on view March 2–May 10 at the Yale Architecture Gallery, Paul Rudolph Hall, 180 York St.The American suburbs have been...
Why do some people exposed to West Nile virus get deathly ill and others emerge unscathed? In a study that both helps to answer that question and could point the way toward prevention and effective treatment, scientists at Yale University have isolated...
The Yale University Police Department (YPD) will once again host its Citizen’s Police Academy beginning March 24 for members of the Yale and New Haven community.The academy is free of charge and takes place over a six-week period on Tuesdays, 6–8:30 p.m...
A missing link in the evolution of the front claw of living scorpions and horseshoe crabs was identified with the discovery of a 390 million-year-old fossil by researchers at Yale and the University of Bonn, Germany.The specimen, named Schinderhannes...