Taking cocaine impairs the orbitofrontal cortex, an area of the brain responsible for self control and decision making, and the effects persist long after the cocaine use stops, a behavioral study by a Yale researcher and collaborator has found. “It’s...
Yale University announced today that undergraduate tuition and room and board for the 2002-03 academic year will total $35,370, an increase of 3.9 percent over the current term bill. “The increase in the term bill will take effect this fall along with...
Yale University’s Federalist Society will host a student symposium titled “Law and Truth,” March 1-2 at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. Judges, academics and lawyers from around the country will debate issues ranging from the ethical problems...
Internationally acclaimed author Salman Rushdie will deliver a lecture titled “Step Across This Line” in the first of the Tanner lecture series focusing on this year’s theme, “The Virtues of Tolerance and the Crossing of Lines: Islam in the History of...
Sailing, a club sport at Yale with a long tradition of strong undergraduate interest and international success, has been given varsity status, President Richard C. Levin has announced. Beginning with the 2002 spring semester, Levin said Yale would have...
“Race, Values and the American Legal Process,” a scholarly conference honoring the legacy of Law School alumnus Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., will be held at Yale Law School on February 22-24. The conference will reflect on the legacy of Judge...
In conjunction with the opening of three exhibitions at the Yale School of Architecture, architect Yung-Ho Chang will deliver a lecture at the School on Monday, February 11, at 6:30 p.m. In his talk titled “In Situ Architecture: A Chinese Practice,”...
The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will host an art exhibition titled “Tikkun Ha’Olam: Meditations in Blue,” paintings by Mindy Weisel, in memory of Dr. Donald Cohen, former director of Yale’s Child Study Center and the Sterling Professor...
Yale University’s Faculty of Engineering will mark the beginning of its sesquicentennial celebration with a monthly distinguished lecture series, the first of which features renowned French physicist and new Yale professor Michel Devoret, who will...
Yale Law School’s Center for the Study of Corporate Law will host a panel discussion, “The Enron Situation: A View from the Professions” on February 15, 2-4 p.m. in Room 120 of the Law School, 127 Wall Street. The program is free and open to the public...
