The Yale University community – especially the Yale Athletics Department staff and Yale student and alumni athletes – has been dedicated to assisting Mandi Schwartz in her courageous struggle with leukemia since December of 2008, when she was first...
U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut will hold a hearing at Yale University on Monday, July 26, on “The State of the American Child: What’s Working for Connecticut’s Children.” The hearing will begin at 9 a.m. at the Yale Child Study Center,...
Cultivating the musical talents of New Haven students is the focus of a new Yale School of Music (YSM) program making its debut this summer July 26-August 30.The Morse Summer Music Academy at YSM is designed to nurture creativity and develop musicianship...
In the hope of stemming one of the biggest public health crises in Southeast Asia, Yale is partnering with the University of Malaya to fight the spread of HIV among drug users in Malaysia who are completing prison terms and transitioning back into the...
Rodney T. Cohen, formerly of Presbyterian College in South Carolina, has been named as assistant dean of Yale College and director of the Afro-American Cultural Center, announced Yale College Dean Mary Miller.Since 2006, Cohen served as director for...
David Evans, professor of geology and geophysics, has been named a Faculty Finalist in the New York Academy of Sciences’ 2010 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.The awards, which are currently in their fourth year, recognize “highly innovative,...
As the life expectancy of Americans increases, learning how to prevent or delay age-related physical disability has become a major health priority.Yale is one of eight centers in the country that will study whether physical activity and other lifestyle...
An environmental services startup launched by Yale affiliates has won the $25,000 Sabin Environmental Venture Prize for a technology that uses satellite imagery to obtain forest data.Developed by SilviaTerra, the technology will determine the composition...
Two years ago, Professor Alan Plattus of the Yale School of Architecture helped lead an international charette bringing together Yale faculty and students who joined with architects and students from Jordan, Israel and Palestine to design proposals for...
Juan J. Linz, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Social Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious 2010 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences.The prize, established in 1987 at the initiative of the Italian Association...