A 15–member international committee that includes a Yale School of Medicine physician today called on Congress to establish a U.S. Global Health Service Corps to help combat AIDS–HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis in underserved overseas areas. The Institute...
A centuries-old singing tradition in Scotland , found by Yale professor and jazz musician Willie Ruff to be an ancestor of African-American singing traditions in the Deep South , will be celebrated at a Yale conference May 5-6. Singers from the Scottish...
The National Academies Keck FUTURES initiative has announced that Yale Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering David LaVan and Andrew Ellington of the University of Texas at Austin are recipients of a FUTURES grant in the amount of $75,000 to...
The National Academies Keck FUTURES initiative has announced that Yale Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering David LaVan and Andrew Ellington of the University of Texas at Austin are recipients of a FUTURES grant in the amount of $75,000 to...
Researchers at Yale Cancer Center working on an innovative treatment for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) have received one of two grants from the Connecticut Department of Public Health resulting from Tobacco Master Settlement Funds that allocated...
Yale School of Medicine’s Pediatric Asthma Care Team will provide asthma screenings for the community at Dave McDermott Auto Group, 55 Main St., East Haven on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. In honor of World Asthma Day (May 3), physicians and...
Provost Andrew D. Hamilton announced the appointment of Professor H. Kim Bottomly as Deputy Provost for Science, Technology and Faculty development. She will assume responsibilities in the Provost’s Office on July 1, 2005. “The Deputy Provosts help me...
Gloria Steinem, an American journalist and leader in the women’s rights movement, and Roslyn Milstein Meyer, ‘71 B.A., ‘73 M.S., ‘77 Ph.D., a co–founder of the Leadership, Education and Athletic Partnership, will be honored April 21 by Women’s Health...
The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders and International Security Studies at Yale will host a two–day conference, April 29–30, in which scholars representing a range of disciplines will discuss the impact the quest for petroleum...
The Adopt–A–Doc Program in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine has launched a pilot project called Building Medical Homes to promote the care and services pediatric patients receive. Funded in 2001 by the Community Foundation for...