The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $789,000 to Yale and Stanford universities and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to facilitate the cataloging of historical 78-rpm sound recordings at all three institutions. During the 40...
Two prominent writers and social critics, Nathan Glazer and Jim Sleeper, will hold a public discussion at Yale on the subject of race on April 10 at 7:15 p.m., in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 61 High Street, Room 102.Glazer, professor emeritus of sociology and...
Marvin Chun and team The way the brain stores new, conscious information such as a first kiss or a childhood home is strongly linked to the way the human brain stores unconscious information, researchers at Yale report this month in an...
Christy Marshuetz One of two separate areas of the brain light up when younger people look at a house or a face, but each image activates both areas of the brain at the same time in older persons, according to a study published by Yale...
To address the staggering rise in HIV/AIDS among women and girls in every region of the world, the Yale University Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will hold a conference Thursday, April 6, at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155...
Scott Strobel The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Scott Strobel, professor and newly appointed chair of the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale as one of its new HHMI Professors chosen for their...
Joan A. Steitz The 2006 Gairdner International Awards, among the most prestigious awards in science, will be presented to two Yale biologists and three other scientists for their breakthrough research on RNAs, cell motility and hormones...
Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, led by professors Jack Balkin and Yochai Benkler, is sponsoring a conference on the future of access to knowledge, “A2K,” April 21–23, at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. American and international policy makers...
Thomas Kirk, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, will receive the first Research Advocacy Award from the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine on Saturday, April 8.The award recognizes Kirk’s...
The inaugural Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., Lecture will be held at Yale School of Medicine May 15 in honor of Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., professor emeritus at Yale who is widely acknowledged as one of the founders of neurology.The Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., Fund...