Cigarette smokers interested in quitting are invited to join a six-week, research treatment study at Yale School of Medicine that combines the nicotine patch and naltrexone, a medication used to help fight addictions. All participants will receive the...
Yale University has announced the appointment of Nayan Chanda to the position of director of publications for the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Chanda is editor-at-large of the Far Eastern Economic Review, one of Asia’s premier business...
Dorothy Sexton, creator of the Yale School of Nursing’s (YSN) Medical-Surgical Nursing Program and leader in the development of the school’s doctoral program, will retire in May after 27 years. Sexton is known as an exemplary mentor and an accomplished...
Former President George H.W. Bush, the keynote speaker for “Yale and Public Service,” the conclusion of Yale’s Tercentennial Alumni Leadership Convocation held on April 21st at Woolsey Hall, will be featured in exclusive videotaped broadcasts set to air...
Yale University will receive an award on the occasion of its Tercentennial from the Interfaith Cooperative Ministries of New Haven in a ceremony at the United Church on the Green on May 10 at 5:30 p.m. Rev. Howard Nash, co-president of ICM and pastor of...
The pin dot-sized deer ticks responsible for more than 100,000 cases of Lyme disease nationwide are now found to carry yet another new and infectious organism, a Yale researcher has found. “We report here, for the first time, the existence of a...
Most women in underserved populations do not continue breastfeeding after four months because they lack the confidence they will do so, and they think their infants prefer formula, a study by Yale researchers shows. Of the 64 women who participated in...
Students in Yale University’s Department of Engineering will hold “Robot Wars 2001,” Thursday, April 26, at 5 p.m., in Davies Auditorium of the Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center at 15 Prospect Street, New Haven. The students in the...
Measuring blood flow to the brain may be a useful way to determine when a recovering cocaine addict is able to benefit from cognitive behavior therapy as a treatment for cocaine addiction, a Yale researcher has found. Cocaine constricts coronary and...
Yale Law School will host Illinois Governor George H. Ryan, who will give a lecture on “Until I Can Be Sure: Reflections on the Administration of the Death Penalty” at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 16, in Room 127. The talk is sponsored by the Knight...
