Donald McNeil, a science and health reporter for the New York Times who focuses on global health, will be speaking at Yale today as part of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale. The title of his talk will be “Sex, Albino Murders and Cheap...
Yale Environment 360 has won a 2010 Online Journalism Award for its video report on mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.The video, “Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining,” received the award for best video at the Online News...
Yale University has announced several changes to its Teacher Preparation and Education Studies programs. The master’s program in Urban Education Studies will end in the summer of 2011, when the current cohort of students completes its coursework. In...
For some, it’s a little bit like turning the clock back to a fun and frolicking era. For others, its main appeal lies in the music, or the focus that is required as one does such moves as foot sweeps, knee slaps, pivots and “Suzie Qs.” Seventy-nine-year-...
Former provost and distinguished intellectual historian Frank M. Turner — who only two months ago embarked on a five-year term as University librarian, overseeing one of the largest academic library systems in the world — died suddenly yesterday morning....
Dr. David M. Greer, the inaugural Dr. Harry M. Zimmerman and Dr. Nicholas and Viola Spinelli Associate Professor of Neurology, is a specialist in the areas of coma, neurocritical care, stroke and neuroimaging.His research focuses vascular neurology and on...
Dr. Flora M. Vaccarino, the newly designated Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, studies the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders and has elucidated crucial mechanisms that regulate neural stem cell self-renewal, survival and differentiation.A...
Z. Jimmy Zhou, newly designated as the Marvin L. Sears Professor of Visual Science, studies the physiology and development of the mammalian retina under normal and pathological conditions, as well as the organization and function of retinal synapses and...
First, some hard facts: Over 1,300 people in New Haven are without a place to stay each night, and there are only 300 beds in the system for them to use. An estimated 4,000 people in the city experience homelessness at some point during the year, many of...