While a neurotransmitter is enhancing morphine’s effects in the spine, it also is diminishing the drug’s addictive characteristics in the brain, a Yale study shows. “In the spinal cord, the neuropeptide galanin makes morphine a better pain drug. It...
Every spring since 1967, first-year students at the Yale School of Architecture have put down their pencils and picked up hammers to build a house from foundation to roof, from framing to trim. Excavation began on May 1 for the hands-on student project...
Two Yale University faculty members recently were honored for their contributions to advanced practice nursing by a national nurse practitioner group. Associate Dean Barbara Safriet of Yale Law School and Associate Dean Margaret Grey of Yale University...
Yale Law School student John Leibovitz and graduate students in engineering Stephen Robinson and Stephen Brown have won the grand prize of $60,000 in cash and services in Yale’s first Y50K Entrepreneurship Competition. The students won $30,000 in cash...
Straightforward advice and practical answers to the most commonly asked skin health questions can now be found in “Total Skin: The Definitive Guide to Whole Skin Care For Life,” a new book by David J. Leffell, M.D., professor of dermatology and surgery...
A permanent professorship in environmental studies will be created at Yale through $4 million bequeathed by Joan Tweedy of Darien, a lifelong conservationist. Under the terms of her will, Tweedy will leave the gift to Yale to endow the Tweedy/Ordway...
The dedication and inaugural ceremony for the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence will be held on Monday, May 8 at noon at the Yale University School of Medicine in the Harkness Auditorium at 333 Cedar Street. The Honorable Eric H. Holder...
A Yale researcher is among 60 new members and 15 foreign associates from 9 countries to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences for distinguished and continued achievements in original research. Charles A. Janeway, Jr., M.D., professor of...
Scientists, spiritual leaders, and conservationists, including U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, will gather at Yale May 11-14 for a conference on religion and the natural world. Stephen Kellert, professor of social ecology at the Yale...
A portrait of Yale graduate Yung Wing, Class of 1854, the first person from China to have graduated from an American university, was unveiled Friday afternoon at a ceremony hosted by Yale President Richard C. Levin and attended by Zhang Hongxi, Consul...