Yale Psychology Professor Karen Wynn, who studies infants’ ability to recognize and reason about numbers, has been awarded the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The award, which includes $50,000 in research funding, is...
Researchers are one step closer to reversing brain and spinal cord injuries with the discovery of another molecule in a pathway that prevents axon regeneration, a Yale researcher says. Stephen Strittmatter, M.D., who holds the Vincent Coates Chair of...
Two new locally owned and operated food service establishments, representative of the reawakening of New Haven as a restaurant and entertainment center, will hold a joint grand opening on Monday, January 22 at 2 p.m. Whimsels and Koffee? Too are two...
The Yale University Art Gallery has received an ownership claim regarding an 1864 painting by Gustave Courbet on loan to the Art Gallery since 1981. The claim was made by the son of the late Josephine Weinmann, a Jewish citizen who left Germany before...
Acclaimed writer and advocate for the Haitian-American community Edwidge Danticat will visit the Yale campus and give a reading from her works on February 6 and 7. Born in Port au Prince, Haiti, in 1969, Danticat came to the United States in 1981. Two...
An exhibition of paintings by David Gelernter is on view at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall Street, now through March 23. The art, primarily a mix of acrylic and pastel or watercolor and pastel, occasionally employs liquid iron, metal...
William Nordhaus, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics at Yale and former member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, will discuss “The Problem of Global Public Goods” on February 21 at 6 p.m. at the Yale Club of New York City. The...
A symposium on “Current Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health” will be held at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, on February 9 and 10. The symposium, free and open to the public, begins Friday afternoon with welcoming remarks by Anthony T. Kronman,...
While many baby boomers-people between the ages of 37 and 55-are exercising more, many end up in hospital emergency rooms suffering from sports related injuries, according to Yale orthopaedic surgeon, Robert A. Stanton, M.D., who wants to raise awareness...
Contrary to common beliefs, societal collapses of the past have been caused by sudden climate change, not only by social, political and economic factors, Yale anthropologist Harvey Weiss reports in a new study published in this week’s Science. “Our...