Playwright Eugene O’Neill may not be known as a song-and-dance man, but, as demonstrated by the Yale-sponsored production coming up this weekend, “Eugene O’Neill Ragtime Revue,” he could be a lot of fun. The Revue uses songs from O’Neill’s plays...
Yale University will host an international conference, “Sholem Asch Reconsidered,” analyzing the life and work of a controversial Yiddish writer, from May 13 through 15. Asch was both admired and reviled in his lifetime. His novels, plays and essays won...
Yale Professor Jennifer Doudna, whose leading work in structural biology provided an answer to how RNA can act like an enzyme, has been awarded the prestigious Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation. The award is made each year to...
Yale researchers have for the first time used functional MRI to study brain organization in persons with autism and Asperger Syndrome and found that they perceive faces as if they were objects. “This may be a result of a lifelong disinterest in people,...
Roland Hernandez, chair and chief executive officer of Telemundo Inc., the nation’s largest Spanish-speaking television company, will visit Yale University on April 19 and 20 as a Gordon Grand Fellow. On Wednesday, Hernandez will be a guest at a master’...
Yale Law School will host a two-day conference on “Cultural Studies and the Law: Beyond Legal Realism in Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship?” on April 15 and 16. The symposium aims to promote an interdisciplinary dialogue on issues relating to the law...
A Yale epidemiologist participated in an Institute of Medicine committee which has found that antioxidants’ role in preventing chronic disease is still uncertain and large doses may lead to health problems rather than offer benefits. The report is the...
With a box full of motors, pistons, springs, pieces of wood, metal, and other materials, Yale mechanical engineering students are building machines intended to rescue the mythological Persephone from the underworld. “Robot Wars 2000,” an annual...
Yale University is adding 450 acres of forestland to its 1,440-acre Tuomey Forest in a picturesque area of southwestern New Hampshire. The land located in Swanzey, N.H., is being exchanged by Yale University for 50 acres it owns along Route 10 in the...
Peace Corps Director Mark L. Schneider will speak at Yale University on April 12 at 4 p.m. in Dwight Hall Chapel, 67 High St. Schneider will meet with former Peace Corps volunteers who currently teach or study at Yale in Dwight Hall Library at 3 p.m...