Two Yale seniors who represent the ideals of “sportsmanship and Yale tradition” were presented athletic awards by Thomas A. Beckett, director of athletics, at the Yale College Senior Class Day exercises. Meredith Bryarly received the Nellie Pratt Elliot...
Yale senior Ashley Lucas was honored during Senior Class Day ceremonies with the David Everett Chantler Award in recognition of her courage, strength of character and high moral purpose. Steven B. Smith, chair of the Council of Masters Committee on...
Five faculty members named as outstanding teachers were honored with special awards at the Yale College Senior Class Day program on Sunday, May 20. The teachers were nominated by undergraduates to receive the Yale College Prizes for Distinguished...
Almost 80% of Down syndrome cases can be detected with a new non-invasive formula using a ratio of skin thickness and limb measurements, Yale researchers report in a study published in the May issue of American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. This...
Although it is well documented that using beta blockers is effective in preventing a subsequent heart attack or death, not all hospitals are prescribing them widely for complicated internal reasons, a study by researchers at Yale concludes. B-blockers...
Leptin, a hormone known for its hunger-blocking effect on the brain, operates in a more complex way than previously thought, researchers from Yale and The Vollum Institute find, possibly leading to development of drugs that can better interfere with...
Howard P. Forman, M.D., vice chair of finance and administration in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship. He is one of six fellows chosen from around the...
A letter recommending that current National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines on stem cell research remain intact was signed by members of Yale’s Interdisciplinary Bioethics Committee and sent to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G....
Pasko Rakic, the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor and chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine, recently gave the 71st James Arthur Lecture on the “Evolution of Neocortex: Lessons from Embryoarcheology” at the American Museum of...
Two researchers at Yale School of Medicine, Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., and Richard Lifton, M.D., have been selected for the medical research awards of The Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation. The foundation annually recognizes three researchers for...