New Haven and Yale University will be hosting educators from all over the northeast when the 31st annual Northeast Regional Conference for the Social Studies convenes here March 8 through 10. An estimated 2500 teachers and school administrators are...
The Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care at the Yale School of Nursing will honor the founders of the American hospice movement at its annual convocation on February 15 at 4 p.m. at the Yale School of Nursing. The keynote speaker will be Cindy...
Yale Professor Edward Zigler, who is credited with conceiving programs and policies such as Head Start and family leave, has been awarded a $250,000 gift from the Heinz Family Foundation. Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology and of the Yale Child...
A newly discovered “Ras” protein, which is related to a group known to be a factor in nearly 30 percent of all human tumors, has been identified by a Yale professor. “There are three known Ras proteins,” said Sankar Ghosh, associate professor in the...
Despite widespread anxiety about Lyme disease, Yale researchers have found that treatments for the tick-borne disease are effective and long lasting. “The outcomes of the vast majority of patients with Lyme disease were excellent and not much different...
President Clinton has awarded Yale University Mathematician Ronald Coifman the National Medal of Science, which is the highest recognition of its kind in the country.
“This is like winning the lottery,” said Coifman, the Phillips Professor of Mathematics...
Yale researchers have found that psychological stress can facilitate sudden death by increasing the chances that arrhythmias – abnormal heart rhythms – are more lethal in susceptible patients. These kinds of deaths, said Rachel Lampert, M.D., the study’...
Students at Hill Regional Career Magnet High School in New Haven are learning science with the only microscope of its kind to be found in a public school in Connecticut. The Zeiss EM109 electron microscope, worth more than some city schools’ annual...
A new light sensitive drug used to treat the most severe form of macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness in people over 50, is being tested at Yale School of Medicine. The drug, verteporfin, is expected to receive approval by the U...
Reversing brain and spinal cord injuries may soon be possible with the discovery of a gene and protein responsible for stopping axon regrowth, Yale researchers say. Brain and spinal cord axons can grow after injury if provided with an adequate...
