Peering at single molecules within an organism that makes its home near thermal vents, Yale University scientists have discovered the structure of a key player in the creation of protein-making factories in humans.In the Sept. 11 issue of the journal...
We write to apprise you of the University’s financial condition as we continue to work through the effects of the economic downturn. We have been greatly impressed with the response of the Yale community. Rather than wait to reduce expenditures until the...
Scientists studying cognitive decline that accompanies aging have been interested in nicotinic receptors, part of a key neural pathway that not only enhances learning and memory skills but reinforces addictions as well. The loss of these receptors has...
A tiny bit of genetic material with no previously known function may hold the key to stopping the spread of cancer, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Sichuan University in Chengdu, China report in two papers in the September 7-11 issue of...
President Richard C. Levin issued the following statement regarding the investigation into Annie Le’s disappearance on September 8.To the Yale community: It is my tragic duty to report that the body of a female was found in the basement of the Amistad...
A $64,500 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Program for Museums and Art Conservation will enable Yale to conduct a survey of hundreds of collections of photographs dispersed throughout the University and to create a directory of its vast...
Award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on September 22.Brokaw’s lecture on the future of journalism will take place at 5 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall Street. The event is free and...
Seyla Benhabib awarded the Ernst Bloch PrizeSeyla Benhabib, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, will be awarded the Ernst Bloch Prize in Ludwigshafen, Germany, on Sept. 25.The prize, one of Germany’s most distinguished...
A Yale anthropologist has captured photographic images of a rare, cougar-like cat ranging at night in an endangered Ugandan forest.The images of the African golden cat (Profelis aurata) were taken by a digital infrared camera trap set last year by the...
Yale University researchers have found a molecular mechanism that allows the proper mixing of neurons during the formation of columns essential for the operation of the cerebral cortex, they report in the Sept. 16 online issue of the journal Nature....