Cathy Cohen, professor of political science and African American studies at Yale, will be a guest speaker at the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) on February 23. The lecture, titled “AIDS, Homophobia and the Politics of Black...
Susan E. Lederer, assistant professor of the history of medicine at Yale, will present a lecture on Thursday, January 17, on the ways in which public health policies concerning blood transfusions have reflected prevalent attitudes about race and...
A concert to raise money for malaria relief will be held at Woolsey Hall on Saturday, December 13 from 8 to 10 pm. Performers include St Luke’s Chorus and members of the Yale Alumni Chorus. Called the “Tony Blair Faith Foundation Malaria Relief Concert,”...
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150 year anniversary of publication of his Origin of the Species, Yale has created a webportal, Yale Celebrates Darwin. The portal provides links to information about all the...
Yale University and the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute based in Garrison, NY, have announced the establishment of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy — a collaboration designed to increase the range, depth...
New research conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School concludes that people’s cultural values influence how risky they perceive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to be and thus, their views on whether or not the vaccine should...
Yale’s Haiti medical relief team has returned from the earthquake-ravaged nation. Meanwhile, efforts continue on campus to raise funds to help victims of the disaster and to raise awareness about the conditions there.Medical team returnsThe six-member...
Six Yale researchers are among 126 recipients of the Sloan Research Fellowships, given to early-career scientists whose achievements identify them as rising stars.“Today’s Sloan Research Fellows are tomorrow’s Nobel Prize winners,” said Dr. Paul L. Joskow...
Susan E. Rivers, a research scientist in Yale University’s Department of Psychology and the associate director of Yale’s Health, Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory, has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for...
Dr. Howard M. Spiro, who served as the founding section chief of gastroenterology in the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale from its start in 1955 until 1982 and as the director of the Yale Program for Humanities in Medicine from 1983 until his...
