A record-high 66.3 percent of the students admitted to Yale College have chosen to matriculate in this year’s freshmen class. The 1,352 members of the Class of 2004, selected from among 12,887 applicants, will arrive on campus Friday, September 1. Yale...
FOCUS on New Haven, a student-run organization sponsored by the Office of New Haven and State Affairs, seeks to orient rising Yale sophomores to community service and activism in the city with the goal of turning Yale students into New Haven residents....
Six internationally renowned architects will hold visiting endowed professorships at Yale University’s School of Architecture during the fall semester, Dean Robert A.M. Stern has announced. They are Demetri Porphyrios, Douglas Garofalo, Tod Williams,...
For as long as she can remember, Emily Cherlin has been afraid to go camping, avoided basements, and even hesitated to open a window for fear of meeting a spider. “It was more the look of them than what I thought they might do to me,” says Cherlin, a...
The Yale School of Architecture opens a new academic year with a salute to one of its own: an exhibition of the work of Cesar Pelli. “Cesar Pelli: Building Designs 1965-2000” is a retrospective of the work of one of the world’s great contemporary...
Among likely voters in the New York Senate race, Democrat Hillary Clinton leads Republican Rick Lazio by 3 percent, according to an innovative survey administered by Yale faculty member John Lapinski and colleagues. If the election were held today,...
Yale will be the lead test site for a $3.2 million national study aimed at earlier diagnosis of the leading silent killer of persons with diabetes – heart disease. The study was designed by Frans J. Th. Wackers, M.D., a professor of medicine at the...
In the first such finding from a controlled study, Yale researchers have successfully used acupuncture to treat cocaine addiction, a disorder for which there are few effective treatments. Published in the August 14 issue of the Archives of Internal...
In a landmark achievement, Yale researchers have determined the atomic structure of the ribosome’s large subunit, paving the way for more effective drugs to fight infection. The findings, published in two separate articles in this week’s issue of the...
A few carefully worded questions are the best way of spotting alcohol problems during routine medical appointments, a study by Yale researchers shows. Out of 38 studies of screening methods for alcohol problems in primary care physicians’ practices, the...
