The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University will host the first talks of the newly established David Brion Davis Lecture Series on the Yale campus, February 7–9. The inaugural lecturer of the series is...
Renowned scientist Stephen Wolfram will deliver a lecture titled “A New Kind of Science” at the Yale School of Architecture on February 14, 6:30 p.m. A ground–breaking and original scientist, Wolfram is recognized as one of the world’s most important...
Renowned scientist Stephen Wolfram will deliver a lecture titled “A New Kind of Science” at the Yale School of Architecture on February 14, 6:30 p.m. A ground–breaking and original scientist, Wolfram is recognized as one of the world’s most important...
Adolescents who smoke show impairment of memory and other cognitive functions, according to a Yale study in Biological Psychiatry. More than 4.5 million teenagers smoke cigarettes in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and the...
A Yale researcher and expert in the practice of acupuncture is conducting a three–year study on the effectiveness of this ancient Chinese practice in reducing low back pain during pregnancy. The study is funded with a $400,000 grant from the National...
The varicella vaccine is almost 90 percent effective against chickenpox, but its impact on herpes zoster (shingles) is unknown and needs wider surveillance, Yale School of Medicine researchers write in today’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)...
On a recent trip to India, Yale President Richard C. Levin and a delegation of Yale officials formally opened a new office for Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) housed at YRG Care, a non–profit organization based in Chennai. The...
George A. Silver, M.D., emeritus professor of public health at Yale School of Medicine and former deputy assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), died January 7 at age 91 in Chevy...
The varicella vaccine is almost 90 percent effective against chickenpox, but its impact on herpes zoster (shingles) is unknown and needs wider surveillance, Yale School of Medicine researchers write in today’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)...
Yale President Richard Levin has announced that Paul A. Fleury, Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Engineering and Applied Physics, and Physics, who was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Engineering in 2000, has agreed to extend his appointment through...