Yale has received a grant of $100,000 from the Ford Foundation for a unique program to develop a more temperate climate on campus for dialogue about such flashpoint issues as race relations, religion and political views.The grants are part of Ford’s...
Roberto Groszmann, M.D Beta blockers are not effective in preventing development of varices—veins in the esophagus that can rupture and bleed—as a consequence of cirrhosis, according to a recent study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in...
The rates of chronic disability in older Americans has been substantially overestimated by about forty percent, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the December 12 Archives of Internal Medicine.“Our projections yielded about two million fewer...
James Gustave Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, is the winner of the 2005 Connecticut Book Award for nonfiction.Speth took the prize for “Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment,” in which...
The Modern Language Association has awarded the fifth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Slavic Literary Studies to Vladimir E. Alexandrov, professor and chair of the Slavic Languages and Literatures department at Yale, for his book “Limits to...
Stephen R. Anderson, professor of linguistics and psychology at Yale and the chair of the undergraduate major in cognitive science, was recently elected the 83rd president of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).Anderson will serve as vice-president/...
Durland Fish The link between global climate change and emerging disease threats will be addressed at the Forum on Climate and Disease on December 9 and 10 at Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.Co-sponsored by the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies...
Robert J Schoelkopf Robert J Schoelkopf , professor of applied physics and physics at Yale University has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for his innovative use of microwave techniques.The APS is one of the...
Saralyn Mark, M.D., senior medical advisor in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and an expert on women’s health and heart disease, will speak in New Haven December 13, 2005.The talk, titled “Women’s Health: The Impact of Sex on Heart...
Godfrey Pearlson The National Institute of Mental Health has granted a MERIT award to Godfrey Pearlson, M.D., professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, for his research on structural and functional brain...
