Emergency room practitioners can be successfully trained in two hours to counsel problem drinkers in a 10–minute intervention, according to a study by Yale researchers in Academic Emergency Medicine. “The emergency room is an ideal opportunity to...
Yale College will eliminate the financial contribution that low–income parents have to make toward their children’s education, President Richard C. Levin announced today. Families with incomes below $45,000 will no longer be required to pay any portion...
David Leffell, M.D., director of the Yale Medical Group (YMG) and professor of dermatology and surgery at Yale School of Medicine, has been appointed Deputy Dean for Clinical Affairs at the medical school. “In his new role as deputy dean, Dr. Leffell...
Hundreds of public school children will visit the Yale University campus for educational and cultural programs this month, beginning on March 8 with the New Haven Public Schools’ 11th annual City–wide Science Fair. Other events at Yale in March include a...
Impaired function of a receptor that regulates release of a mood elevating hormone in the brain may be responsible for causing depression, anxiety and cardiovascular disorders, according to a Yale study in Pharmacogenetics and Genomics. The genetic...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have identified a gene for age–related macular degeneration (AMD) on a region of chromosome 1, leading the way for targeted treatment for this widespread eye disease that causes blindness in millions of people. The...
Distinguished Yale professor and celebrated literary critic Harold Bloom will receive the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2005 in Odense, Denmark, on April 2 in an event to launch a year–long 200th birthday celebration for the city’s most famous native son...
The French Ambassador to the United States, Jean–David Levitte, will give a free and public talk on “The United States and France in a World Transformed” on Tuesday, March 22 at 2:15 p.m. in Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. Levitte assumed his...
Retired Yale University French Professor Jacques Guicharnaud, 80, died at home in New Haven on March 5. Guicharnaud was the Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French. He taught at Yale from 1950 until his retirement in 1997, with the exception of a brief...
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization is pleased to announce that Nayan Chanda, the editor of YaleGlobal Online, is the recipient of the 2005 Shorenstein Award for Journalism. Chanda, who is also the director of publications for the...
