Yale faculty member J.D. McClatchy has received the 2010 Ambassador Book Award for Poetry from the English-Speaking Union of the United States for his book of poems “Mercury Dressing” (2009).The Ambassador Book Awards recognize important literary works...
As part of a multi-year preparation for a major renovation and expansion currently underway, the Yale University Art Gallery undertook a thorough review of its vast holding of paintings, sculpture and artifacts, only a small percentage of which have ever...
When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant as the dinosaur’s appearance. Over a few beers with fellow paleontologists one night, he blurted out the...
Yale Professor Marcia Inhorn, a leading scholar in the field of medical anthropology, has been named the first Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge in honor of her...
Yale believes the humane use of animals in research is more than justified by the benefits it yields to humankind. Virtually all medical advances of the last century would have been impossible without animal research. From antibiotics and blood...
Addictive behaviors in women involving tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs and overeating will be the focus of a new five-year, $2.5 million faculty training grant awarded to Yale University researchers in the Department of Psychiatry.The grant, funded by the...
Most scientists have viewed electrical fields within the brain as the simple byproducts of neuronal activity. However, Yale scientists report in the July 15 issue of the journal Neuron that electrical fields can also influence the activity of brain cells....
In a fundamental shift in the view of how bacteria proliferate and survive, Yale scientists report online June 20 in the journal Nature that most of the genetic action within a cell takes place close to home.Since bacteria lack internal compartments such...
With an ever-growing collection that already boasts more than 12 million specimens, it was getting tough for the Peabody Museum of Natural History to find space for all of its treasures, many of which were stored in cramped spaces that made inventory and...
Faculty appointments President Richard C. Levin announced the following appointments: Julia Adams, professor of sociology, as chair of the Department of Sociology; Steven Berry, the James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics, as director of the...