At 39, Elon Musk has already helped create some of the most widely recognized and transformative companies on the planet. Interested in technologies that will have the greatest possible impact on human life, Musk has co-founded PayPal and Tesla Motors,...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that new disease pathways involving more than one cell type leads to Type 1 Gaucher disease, a rare genetic disorder in which fatty substances called glycosphingolipids accumulate in cells, resulting in...
This month, in addition to frequenting lecture halls during class time and fulfilling guest speaker engagements, a select group of Yale professors will be establishing their presence through another medium: television.An upcoming Connecticut Public...
The woman was angry when her two children began to misbehave at the grocery store and defy her requests to clean up after themselves, something they never did when she was shooting heroin.Instead of immediately punishing her children, the woman stopped...
A document titled “Doing Virtuous Business” — based on the book “Spiritual Enterprise” by Theodore Malloch, senior research scholar at the Yale Divinity School (YDS) — will be screened at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the school’s Niebuhr Hall, 490...
Lowering levels of a key protein involved in regulating learning and memory—STtriatal-Enriched tyrosine Phosphatase (STEP)—reversed cognitive deficits in mice with Alzheimer’s disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the October 18 issue of...
This fall, the Yale World Fellows Program will launch a year-long series of public events that will explore what it means to be a citizen in today’s interconnected world.Capitalizing on the Yale World Fellows’ broad fields of expertise and multinational...
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, the Yale professor who gave the world mathematical tools to describe such complex phenomena as clouds and the patterns of leaves on trees, died last week at the age of 85.The “father of fractal geometry,” Mandelbrot worked at Yale...
“If a stranger asked you for the keys to your home, you would just give it to him, right?”That’s the slogan on a new poster that warns campus community members to beware of “phishing” emails — messages that falsely claim to be from legitimate...
When photographer Bernie Staggers arrived at work in March 2009, he was not expecting the news he was about to receive. In 90 days, his job as a photographer would be eliminated.“When I was notified, a combined sense of disbelief, sadness and anger...