Gamma knife radiosurgery is topic of community health education lectureThe Yale-New Haven Hospital Auxiliary will sponsor a community health education lecture on Thursday, Oct. 16, 6-8 p.m., in the hospital’s East Pavilion cafeteria, at the 20 York St....
Both the well-known and less-celebrated achievements of Noah Webster, creator of the first comprehensive American dictionary, will be celebrated at Yale on October 16–17 in commemoration of his 250th birthday. The two-day fête, titled “Shaping a Language...
Yale University is continuing to work toward an agreement with the government of Peru regarding Yale’s collection of artifacts excavated from Machu Picchu. Yale’s representatives had a productive meeting on September 27 in New York with Peru’s Foreign...
The October issue of US Airways’ in-flight magazine features a comprehensive profile of the City of New Haven and of the positive impact that Yale has on the city’s attractiveness as a place to live, work and visit. Full Article
Students at the Yale School of Architecture handed over the keys to a house that they designed and built to its new owners at a ceremony on Sept. 25 at 20 King Place (at Truman Street).The dedication of the house will mark the completion of the school’s...
Mark Hochstrasser, the newly named Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, is engaged in research at the crossroads of biochemistry and genetics aimed at understanding at a molecular level how specific eukaryotic proteins are...
Angus C. Nairn, recently named the Charles B.G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry, is noted for his research on the molecular actions of dopamine in the basal ganglia.Nairn has extensive experience in the study of enzymology, protein chemistry and the...
Michael Warner, who has been designated as the Seymour H. Knox Professor of English, has a range of interests that include American literature of the Colonial and Antebellum periods; social theory; media studies; the history of the book; queer theory and...
The American Physical Society (APS) has chosen two Yale physicists to receive two of its prestigious annual awards.Ramamurti Shankar, the John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics, is the 2009 winner of the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, “awarded for...
The women who are 2008 World Fellows at Yale will reflect on how gender affects their work and how their work affects gender relations in their countries in a panel discussion on Tuesday evening, Oct. 7.Titled “Gender Around the World: A Conversation with...