Scientists once believed that proteins govern most cellular activities. However in recent years scientists have found that a diverse group of RNA molecules regulate numerous biological activities. Despite their ancient origin, these RNA molecules have...
The career and legacy of internationally renowned architect and former Yale faculty member James Stirling (1924-1992), who is regarded as one of the most important and innovative architects of the 20th century, will be highlighted in concurrent...
Dr. David F. Musto, the leading historian of drug policy in the United States died Oct. 8 while in Shanghai for a ceremony marking the donation of his books and papers on the history of drug policy to Shanghai University and the establishment there of a...
Peter Diamond, a 1960 graduate of Yale College who now teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is one of three noted economists to share the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Oct....
Yale University researchers have developed a tool for biodiversity conservation in the face of global change: a statistical model that helps predict the risk of extinction for almost 90% of the world’s bird species.“Our global study confirms and extends...
Critically acclaimed food writer and memorialist Claudia Roden, who turned the pleasures of eating into a division of cultural anthropology, will give a talk on the worlds contained in a bowl of soup, at 5 p.m. on October 28, in the Whitney Humanities...
Awards and Honors.Professor wins $852,000 grant for work in pediatric disaster trainingMark X. Cicero, assistant professor in pediatric emergency medicine, was awarded a Targeted Issue Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s...
A new series of netcasts on iTunesU featuring some of Yale’s top clinical and research faculty members explore how the Yale School of Medicine is working to move research findings from the “bench to the bedside.”In 2006, the the school won the largest...
The stress that predators arouse in their prey can alter the latter’s physiology and, by extension, affect how nutrients cycle throughout an ecosystem, according to a Yale study published in The American Naturalist.Postdoctoral associate Dror Hawlena and...
They came from every part of the campus — from the School of Medicine to the Divinity School — and joined together on Oct. 9 to assist local New Haven nonprofits with various projects.In this slideshow, Yale students, faculty and staff are pictured as...