When the brain is stimulated, functional imaging results are misinterpreted by neglecting the resting brain neurotransmitter activity, a study by a Yale researcher concludes. “There is an assumption made in the use of PET scans and functional magnetic...
Kathryn Marie Dudley, associate professor of American Studies and anthropology at Yale University, has been named the winner of the 2000-2001 Margaret Mead Award, presented annually by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the American Anthropological...
Four distinguished architects will hold endowed visiting professorships of design at Yale University’s School of Architecture this spring. They are Greg Lynn, Andres Duany, Leon Krier and Glenn Murcutt. Lynn will be the Davenport Professor, Duany and...
A new Yale study may help to clarify whether hemorrhaging in a baby’s eyes is due to child abuse or simply a lingering effect of birth. The researchers found that retinal hemorrhaging caused by the pressure of moving through the birth canal cleared up...
(Editors and Reporters: the location of the Democratic Vistas lectures has been changed to Battell Chapel. The talks were initially scheduled at Yale Law School) Yale University’s celebration of its 300th birthday will feature weekly lectures on...
Finding Could Help Pinpoint Time of Planet Formations New Haven, Conn. – A team of astronomers from Yale, Venezuela and the Smithsonian Institution have identified 168 young stars, about half the mass of the sun, in a region called the Orion star forming...
Two Yale astronomers have discovered that, contrary to previous beliefs, the area around the Milky Way contains the remains of small galaxies that were torn apart by the Milky Way’s gravity. “It was once thought that the Milky Way’s halo had a smooth...
Yale University has received two grants totaling more than $1.1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. in support of projects at the Institute of Sacred Music and the Divinity School. The grants will help fund the study of liturgical practices at the...
A study of melanoma tumors by Yale researchers shows that Salmonella injections in combination with radiation therapy could provide a promising new cancer therapy. “Combining radiotherapy with injections of genetically engineered Salmonella provide a...
The discovery in Mongolia of the fossil of a new bird, Apsaravis ukhaana, that lived about 80 million years ago, sheds new light on the evolution of birds. The nearly complete specimen of the small pigeon-sized bird was found at the locality Ukhaa...