Many Yale University students are spending the summer in New Haven working on community service projects, thanks to funding from the Yale President’s Office and Dwight Hall. Projects include helping the elderly, the indigent and the mentally ill....
“Children’s Health and Learning: What Educators Need to Know” will be the topic addressed by former Surgeon General of the United States, Joycelyn Elders and a group of teachers, principals, program directors and policy makers at a Yale University-...
Yale researchers and their collaborators have found that high-risk behaviors such as smoking, physical fighting, alcohol use and sexual activity are associated with increased risk of suicidal attempts among adolescents. The findings have potentially...
Like drug and alcohol abuse, pathological gambling should be viewed as a chronic medical condition, Yale researchers assert in an article published in the July 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). “Pathological gambling...
Yale Univesity and Tsinghua University in Beijing, both traditionally associated with the discipline of comparative literature, will co-sponsor an international symposium on the subject in China next month. Scholars from Europe and Australia will join...
A diversified summer study program that has attracted 660 students from around the world kicked off its inaugural season at Yale recently. The Exploration Seminar Program - nicknamed Explo - which began on July 1 is a tuition-based program for high...
Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, has announced that four distinguished architects will hold visiting endowed professorships during the Fall Semester 2001. Brigitte Shim will be the William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of...
The Women’s Campaign School (WCS) at Yale University will hold its eighth annual summer training session on the Yale campus this week, July 18-22. Wholly non-partisan, the WCS helps women contemplating political careers through a program comprising...
Nearly 100 national leaders and practitioners will present new data and address the widening achievement gap among America’s public school students during the Yale Child Study Center’s School Development Program Summer Policy Institute, taking place July...
Yale University Dean of Architecture Robert A.M. Stern will present the DeVane Lecture Series this fall focusing on Yale’s extensive contributions to modern architecture. The DeVane Lectures, which are free and open to the public, will be held on Monday...