A diversified summer study program that has attracted 660 students from around the world kicked off its inaugural season at Yale recently. The Exploration Seminar Program - nicknamed Explo - which began on July 1 is a tuition-based program for high...
Like drug and alcohol abuse, pathological gambling should be viewed as a chronic medical condition, Yale researchers assert in an article published in the July 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). “Pathological gambling...
Yale Univesity and Tsinghua University in Beijing, both traditionally associated with the discipline of comparative literature, will co-sponsor an international symposium on the subject in China next month. Scholars from Europe and Australia will join...
“Children’s Health and Learning: What Educators Need to Know” will be the topic addressed by former Surgeon General of the United States, Joycelyn Elders and a group of teachers, principals, program directors and policy makers at a Yale University-...
Yale researchers and their collaborators have found that high-risk behaviors such as smoking, physical fighting, alcohol use and sexual activity are associated with increased risk of suicidal attempts among adolescents. The findings have potentially...
Many Yale University students are spending the summer in New Haven working on community service projects, thanks to funding from the Yale President’s Office and Dwight Hall. Projects include helping the elderly, the indigent and the mentally ill....
To help improve treatment for premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and the more serious premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), researchers at Yale are examining the body’s emotional and physiological responses across the menstrual cycle. “We are trying to...
Yale University Divinity School will host a lecture by historian Jessie G. Lutz titled “Mission Dilemmas: Bride Price, Minor Marriage, Concubinage, Infanticide and the Education of Women” on July 13 at 5 p.m. in Marquand Chapel, 409 Prospect Street. The...
Documents discovered by Yale faculty member Mary Habeck, and collected into a new book, offer historic evidence of the duplicitous role the former Soviet Union played in the Spanish Civil War. Habeck, a scholar of European and military history, is co-...
Six Yale researchers were recently elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences for distinguished and continued achievements in original research. The new members include three researchers from the Yale School of Medicine: Peter Cresswell,...