Henry P. Becton, director emeritus of Becton Dickinson and Company, will present the next Sheffield Fellowship address at Yale University. His talk, titled “Bringing a 100-year-old Company into its Second Century,” will be presented Tuesday, Nov. 17, at...
Shachar Tauber, M.D., recently traveled to Beijing, where he was Laser Education Ambassador to China at the Global Chinese Ophthalmology Congress. Tauber is director of Yale School of Medicine’s new Laser Vision Correction Service and medical...
Yale University will dedicate the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition on Monday, Nov. 16, at 3 p.m., with a ceremony at the Amistad Memorial in front of New Haven City Hall, 165 Church St. The following free,...
In a Peruvian valley only recently touched by the pressures of urbanization, Yale University scientists have found evidence of ancient Andean metallurgy dating as far back as 3,400 years ago, almost a millennium earlier than previously thought. Thin...
The following talks at Yale University Nov. 9-16 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Social-political philosopher to give Law School’s Storrs Lectures Philosopher Charles Taylor, a professor emeritus at McGill University who...
A concert based on visions of the apocalypse will be held at Yale University in Davenport College, 248 York St., at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12. The concert, titled “The Fermented Fermata,” is sponsored by the year-long Sawyer/Mellon Seminar on...
In studies at Yale University School of Medicine, rhesus monkeys developed schizophrenia-like symptoms as a result of selective brain damage caused by X-rays during the critical early weeks of fetal development. The monkeys tested normal on a battery...
Long before the dinosaurs ruled Earth, the planet was populated by tiny, wriggling creatures that left behind traces of their passage in the form of elaborate swirls and other patterns permanently preserved in stone. Examples of these and other “...
An investigation by the U.S. Department of State Office of the Inspector General into anonymous allegations of financial mismanagement of Yale University’s Cambodian Genocide Program disclosed no evidence of wrongdoing and has been closed, the University...
Five Yale University researchers have been awarded $100,000-a-year, five-year grants from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation, the foundation’s first awards through the Donaghue Investigator Program for Health-related...