For the first time, Yale researchers have identified common genetic variants that predispose lean individuals to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and insulin resistance. NAFLD is now the most common chronic liver disease in the U.S. and insulin...
Yale College Dean Mary Miller, a leading authority on Mesoamerican art, will present the 59th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts series this spring at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.Titled “Art and Representation in the Ancient New...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25...
There was a new face on the sidelines at Reese Stadium on March 17 when the Yale women’s lacrosse team beat Brown 8-7. She is Alanna [last name withheld]; she’s 13 years old; and she is being treated for a brain tumor at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New...
The special section aimed at Yale staff members this month features a story about Yale cooks who took a culinary “trip” around the world in recent Dining Services training sessions.For more news from working@yale, visit http://www.yale.edu/working....
Dr. Joseph E. Craft, newly named as the Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine, is an internationally recognized expert on the pathogenesis of systemic autoimmune diseases.He and his research team seek to define the mechanisms of loss of self-tolerance and...
James A. Levinsohn, newly appointed as the inaugural Charles W. Goodyear Professor in Global Affairs, is a specialist on international economics and economic development whose projects have included studying the impact of HIV/AIDS on unemployment in South...
A conference marking two milestones at Yale — the 30th year of the creation of Women’s Studies (WS) and the upcoming 25th anniversary of the founding of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Center (LGSCY) — will take place Friday-Sunday, April 16-18.“These have...
When Yale physician Dr. David M. Walker (YC ‘96) arrived in Haiti three weeks after the earthquake as part of a medical relief team, he and his colleagues did not find scores of critically injured individuals needing life-saving care.What they did find...
Campus visitors will have the chance to see some of Yale’s most distinguished architecture — from its stately mansions along Hillhouse Avenue to the marble- and granite-paned Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the award-winning, “green” Kroon...