Hoping to spark a revolution in colleges across the nation, students attending a summit at Yale last weekend ratified “The Real Food Declaration,” a document calling for radical changes in campus dining hall practices — favoring foods that are “locally...
Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State and winner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, will participate in a symposium at Yale University on December 6 at 7:45 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School, 127 Wall St.The event is free and open to...
Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur, a preeminent voice of post-World War II American poetry and the nation’s second Poet Laureate, will read from his work at Yale on December 3.Free and open to the public, the...
Jack Elias A protein measured in a simple blood test may be a new biomarker to identify patients with the most serious form of asthma, Yale School of Medicine researchers report today in the New England...
Yale graduate music students will perform a lively concert for the children of New Haven’s Hooker Elementary School on November 28 at 1:30 p.m., as part of an educational outreach program funded by the Yale Class of 1957. Reporters are welcome to cover...
Yale School of Public Health, working with the Connecticut Department of Public Health, will monitor the early impact of a vaccine against the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States and the leading cause of cervical cancer—human...
Xing-Wang Deng A joint Yale-Peking University center that aims to improve crop production by furthering understanding of plant biology will receive five years of continued and expanded support from the...
President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Derek E.G. Briggs, Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Geology and Geophysics, as Director of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History for a term of five years, beginning July 1, 2008.Briggs...
O. Erik Tetlie The gigantic fossil claw of a 390 million-year-old sea scorpion, recently found in Germany, shows that ancient arthropods — spiders, insects, crabs and the like — were surprisingly larger...
In the first evidence of its kind to date, Yale researchers find that infants prefer individuals who help others to those who either do nothing, or interfere with others’ goals, it is reported today in Nature.“This supports the view that our ability to...