Yale President Richard C. Levin announced today that the University will give its acclaimed African American Studies Program the status of an interdisciplinary department, starting July 1, 2000. The Yale Corporation approved the change in status for...
Yale University is hosting a seminar March 17 on conducting research into Latino health issues, such as depression, substance abuse, AIDS and access to health care. The seminar is one of a series that supplements a five-year study by Kathleen Merikangas...
Yale University announced today that it will raise tuition and room and board for undergraduates by only 2.9 percent for 2000-2001, marking its third straight year at that rate of increase, the lowest among Ivy League schools in two decades. Yale also...
Manipulating the tongue’s temperature can result in the same salty, sweet or sour taste caused by sugars, acids or other chemicals, a Yale study finds, furthering understanding of the physiology of taste. “We’ve discovered that specific tastes can be...
Yale University announced today that it will begin construction of a new $176 million building on Congress Avenue to house key research and state-of-the-art educational facilities for its medical school. The building is part of Yale’s commitment, also...
A new device that allows at-home testing for glaucoma, which is one of the leading causes of blindness around the world, has been designed by a Yale physician. M. Marc Abreu, M.D., said he hopes the Alcon Abreu Tonometry System will improve glaucoma...
A recently created Web site that measures candidate preferences reveals a lack of association between respondents’ conscious and unconscious preferences. The Web site, created by investigators at Yale University and the University of Washington, shows...
The third annual Yale Native American Studies conference will be held March 31 to April 2 at the Yale University School of Law. In addition to the panel discussions and keynote addresses that form the core of the conference, the weekend’s activities...
Long committed to public interest law, the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP of New York has chosen four 1999 Yale Law School graduates to be among 27 new Skadden Fellows. Each Fellow in the two-year program will provide civil...
Yale research on the new protein Calcyon could lead to development of more effective drugs for conditions which are marked by dopamine deficiency, such as Parkinson’s, chronic schizophrenia and possibly attention deficit hyperactivity disorder....