The Yale School of Nursing is asking school children in New Haven to submit their designs for a holiday card for YSN on the theme of “caring.” The deadline for the art contest is Oct. 5. A single winner will be selected from three grade categories: K-...
Scholars and grass-roots activists from more than 15 countries will gather at Yale University, Oct. 8-10, to examine how policy makers have used cost-benefit analysis to justify controversial development projects and environmental decisions. The...
Women with cancer-causing genes who choose lumpectomy and radiation therapy appear to have an increased risk of getting a second tumor in the treated breast five to 10 years after treatment, a Yale study finds. The results of this 14-year study,...
Artist and alumnus Ivan Chermayeff will speak on Oct. 26 at 6 p.m. in the Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel St. His lecture, titled “What Design is and What Design is Not,” is free and open to the public. Chermayeff’s work has been...
Yale University and the city of New Haven have launched a joint effort to enhance leadership and management skills of city and University managers. Twelve managers from Yale and 14 from the city will attend five workshops held on campus and led by...
A drug that may protect the eye from damage caused by glaucoma, which is one of the leading causes of blindness around the world, soon will be administered at Yale Medical School in a clinical trial. M. Bruce Shields, M.D., chairman of the Department of...
Throughout this academic year the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University is hosting a series of talks on different aspects of slavery. The series is organized around the two themes of “Slavery and...
Electrical engineering Professors A. Stephen Morse and Peter Belhumeur are recipients of a $2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the second largest 1999 award among 31 national research grants to study knowledge and distributed...
Princeton University Professor of Philosophy Bas van Fraassen will deliver the Dwight H. Terry Lectures at Yale this fall. The talks, collectively called “The Empirical Stance,” will take place on Oct. 19, 21, 26 and 28, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of...
An international conference and an exhibit of rare documents are among the events that will take place at Yale this October in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the “Shakespeare” of the German...