World-renowned neuroscientist Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, professor of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and psychology at Yale University School of Medicine, died on July 31 at age 66. “Pat Goldman-Rakic was one of the most distinguished...
Women who have served in the military are up to four times more likely to become homeless when compared with women in the general population, a Yale researcher has found. One of three authors of the study, Robert Rosenheck, M.D., professor in the...
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded the Yale Child Study Center a $25,000 grant for evaluation of the “Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service” (IICAPS). IICAPS was developed at Yale in 1995 as a model of home-based...
The cost of wildfires is vastly underestimated because federal and state agencies do not share or collect enough data on the impacts of fires, according to a report released by the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry at the Yale School of Forestry...
A student-run organic garden is the most recent undertaking in Yale’s Sustainable Food Initiative, an ambitious plan to change the ethos of eating on the Yale campus. The Yale initiative, which promotes direct contact between consumers and local growers...
In an effort to end the stalemate in negotiations with its unions and reach new contract agreements before the beginning of the new academic year, Yale today made new proposals to increase wages and pensions, and offered a $1,500 signing bonus for all...
A new Yale publication, “Portraits of Four Schools: Meeting the Needs of Immigrant Students and Their Families,” provides insight into how four different schools are meeting the challenges and opportunities of new languages, cultures and expectations as...
On Tuesday, August 19, many of the rare books damaged in the Law School explosion in May will be removed from the freezer where they have been stored. Head of the Yale Library preservation department, Bobby Pilette, and colleagues will exhibit the Law...
Imaging studies have identified unique brain activity changes in men with pathological gambling when they viewed videotapes about betting on cards or rolling dice at a casino, a Yale study has found. The study, which is believed to be the first...
Yale University today presented its unions with a proposal to significantly increase job security for all clerical and technical employees in Local 34. Under the new proposal, Local 34 employees with six or more years of service who are laid off could...