Pessimism is good. Democracy is something you either use or lose. And water just might be an ideal agent for change in the Middle East. These were the messages shared by several former Yale World Fellows at a TEDx event that took place recently at Yale....
Henry B. Hansmann, the newly named Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law is a scholar of corporate law whose principal focus is on the law and economics of organizational ownership and design.He has written extensively about non-profit organizations, the...
Rajita Sinha, newly appointed as the Foundations’ Fund Professor of Psychiatry, is internationally known for her research on the mechanisms linking stress to addiction.She serves as the director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center, which focuses...
Lynn Cooley, the newly named C.N.H. Long Professor of Genetics, is an authority on oogenesis (egg development). She studies the cellular mechanisms of egg development using Drosophila (the fruit fly) as a model system.Her research focuses on understanding...
Paul Bloom, the newly designated Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology, explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with a focus on morality, religion, fiction and art.He is the author or editor of four books,...
Yale University researchers can’t tell you where you left your car keys — but they can tell you why you can’t find them.A new study published July 27 in the journal Nature shows that the neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have...
On Friday, July 29 at 5:30 P.M., Yale University will “graduate” 51 New Haven high school students who have successfully completed an intensive three-week science academy called the Yale SCHOLAR program. The ceremony, and the family barbecue that follows...
Yale School of Music student Garth Neustadter has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his score for the PBS documentary “John Muir in the New World.”The score was recorded at Yale with members of the Yale Philharmonia, the Yale Symphony...
“Yale’s alumni activities have gone beyond what we take in a traditional way,” according to Zhou Yan, secretary of the Alumni Association of Tianjin University, the first university established in China (1895). Zhou’s quote comes from an article titled “...