Sixteen students from Hill Regional Career High School and three students from Common Ground Charter School will represent the city in the FIRST Robotics Competition, co-sponsored by Yale University and the United Illuminating Co. Founded by Dean Kamen...
The first annual Conference on Anthropological Approaches to Health Research will be held at Yale University on Saturday April 6. “Medical anthropology is the comparative study of medical systems, health beliefs and health practices,” says Yasmina...
In his new book, Yale political science professor Robert A. Dahl takes a provocative look at the U.S. Constitution and draws startling conclusions about its democratic foundations. “How Democratic Is the American Constitution?” explores the historic...
The Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities at Yale will finish the academic year with two meetings in April. On Thursday April 18, Anne Higonnet will speak on “The Photographs of Sally Mann.” Higonnet is an associate professor of...
Mel Martinez, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, will visit Yale University as a Chubb Fellow. Martinez is being honored for his work in the public and private sectors, his active involvement in community activities and his understanding...
Two grants totaling $1.65 million from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) will allow the Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY) to conduct research on tobacco-related policy issues and communicate findings. Policy...
A non-native strain of the common reed Phragmites australis, found along roadways and marshes all over New England, has been introduced and spread undetected along the eastern seaboard, resulting in dramatic changes in plant populations and altering...
Jocelyn Dow, a member of the United Nation’s Secretary-General’s Panel of Eminent Persons for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg next September, will discuss “Rio to Johannesburg: The Path to a Fairer World?” on Wednesday, April...
A series of events to explore the links between the environment and economic development will begin with a forum on “Climate Change: Impacts and Equity Issues” on Wednesday, March 27, at 5:30 p.m. at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental...
The discovery of a million-year-old skull in Ethiopia indicates that a single species of human ancestor, Homo erectus, ranged from Europe to Africa to Asia in the Pleistocene era, according to the cover article in the March 21 issue of the journal Nature...