In the first study of its kind, a Yale-led research team has shown that older individuals’ beliefs about aging can have a direct impact on their health. The study suggests that negative beliefs or stereotypes about aging that many elderly Americans...
The College Entrance Examination Board’s scoring of Advanced Placement (AP) exams is unrealistically inflated, says William Lichten, professor emeritus of physics at Yale and a fellow of the Institution of Social and Policy Studies, in a newly-published...
Mature liver cells in humans are generated from bone marrow-derived stem cells, a Yale-NYU team has discovered, paving the way for improved treatment of liver damage and disease. “This is an exciting finding, and incredibly surprising because the bone...
Yale Law School has announced the recipients of the Knight Fellowships in Law for Journalists for the 2000-2001 academic year: Ashbel S. Green, a reporter for The Oregonian; Christi Parsons, a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune; and Thom Rose, a...
Yale has established The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders to further historical and comparative explorations of the frontier experience in North America and throughout the world. The center honors Howard Roberts Lamar,...
Yale Professor Edward Zigler has been named the first recipient of the Early Childhood Leadership Award of the A.L. Mailman Family Foundation. Zigler, the Sterling Professor of Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center, will be presented with the award...
Noted economist Janet Yellen, who chaired President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, has joined the Yale Corporation as the newest alumni fellow. Yellen, the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and professor...
Michelin Travel Publications will unveil a guide to Yale and New Haven at a press event tomorrow, June 21, at 10:30 a.m. at the Yale University Visitor Information Center, 149 Elm St. Green and red guidebooks published by the French-based Michelin...
Adding antimicrobials to consumer products such as hand lotions and soaps may not add to their effectiveness, according to Yale School of Medicine professor Myron Genel, M.D., chair of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Council on Scientific...
Combining a drug used to treat alcoholism with a drug treatment for opiate addiction may be the key to treating cocaine addicts, a Yale study finds. When buprenorphine, an alternative to methadone for treating opiate addiction, was combined with...