Yale President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Harold Hongju Koh, an expert on human rights and international law, as dean of Yale Law School. Koh, who has taught at Yale Law School since 1985, served as Assistant Secretary of State for...
Representatives from Northeastern colleges will gather on the Yale campus November 14 to strategize a transformation in college dining. The one-day conference, “Tilling the Soil, Turning the Tables,” is a day of panels and workshops promoting...
Despite previous reports concluding that patients want full disclosure about their illness, many seriously ill older persons and caregivers may not be ready or able to receive information such as life expectancy, research at Yale shows. Published in the...
A new study cautions that while drugs being designed to enhance memory in the elderly seem to be effective for some types of memory, they may actually worsen working memory, according to a study by Yale researchers published Thursday in the journal...
The burning, vise-like pain experienced by most people with spinal cord injuries results from overly sensitized nerve cells; this activity can be blocked by administering specially designed molecules, according to Yale researchers. These results for the...
The “Richard K. Gershon Symposium on Suppressor T Cells,” a day of presentations and discussions by nine of the most distinguished researchers in immunology, will be held on November 17 in the Anlyan Center Auditorium at Yale School of Medicine. Each...
Three women astronauts will discuss their work in a panel discussion titled “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women Pioneers in Space” on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 5:15 p.m. in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. The panelists will include...
Yale researchers have observed an increased number of neurons in the brains of patients with Tourette’s Syndrome (TS), a finding that could lead to deeper understanding of how the brain compensates for symptoms of TS. The results of the study will be...
Yale researchers are building a community atlas that provides the expression patterns of every gene in every cell type in rice – one of the first cereals cultivated on earth, and the principal food source for half of the world’s population. The four-...
Carolyn Mazure, professor of psychiatry and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale is among leading mental health experts who will be available to the media today between 3 and 4 p.m. to address women’s mental health. The press event takes place at...