Environmental writer Elizabeth Kolbert, award-winning author of “Field Notes from a Catastrophe,” will visit the campus on Wednesday, Feb. 4.Kolbert will be the guest at a master’s tea at 4 p.m. in the Branford College master’s house, 80 High St. At 6 p.m...
The piano will be the featured instrument when the winners of the 2008-2009 Friends of Music at Yale Undergraduate Recital Competition show off their musical talents in a performance on Sunday, Feb. 8.The free concert will take place at 3 p.m. in Sudler...
Yale student Eli Bildner’s first job was to ask wealthy people for money to support worthy causes. When he got to Yale, he decided he would rather raise funds for poor but ambitious businesses in New Haven.Bildner - who may have inherited his knack for...
The Yale men’s hockey team took a break from normal practice on Jan. 19 and ventured outside to skate on the pond next to the clubhouse on the University’s golf course.It is believed to be the first time a Bulldog varsity team has done anything official...
In an address to the Italian Parliament in Rome on Jan. 12, Yale Fertility Center Director Dr. Pasquale Patrizio provided statistics showing that a 2004 Italian law that restricts in-vitro fertilization (IVF) practices is resulting in fewer pregnancies...
Carol R. Ember, executive director of the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).The AAAS awarded the distinction to 486 of its members this year. Ember was chosen for...
Frederic M. Richards, a structural biologist at Yale and an innovative leader in the study of the relationships between protein structures and their biological functions, died of natural causes at home on Jan. 11. He was 83 years old.Richards, Sterling...
Clues to the cause of preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertension complication of pregnancy that has puzzled doctors and researchers for decades, point to proteins that misfold and aggregate, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers.These...