In 1899, the New Haven Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) held its first general meeting on the Yale campus, where the institute will celebrate its centennial year in coming weeks with a number of talks by Yale faculty members and...
Yale University researchers have discovered what appears to be evidence of worm-like animals in rocks that are more than 1 billion years old – about twice as old as any other evidence for multicellular life yet discovered. These findings, published in...
Teenage parents at a New Haven high school who took advantage of on-site child care improved their school performance significantly, showed exceptional diligence in keeping their children’s pediatric visits and immunizations up to date, and had no repeat...
To test your own prejudices, click on www.yale.edu/implicit/. New Haven, Conn. – The pervasiveness of prejudice, which affects 90 to 95 percent of people, was demonstrated today in a Seattle news conference at the University of Washington by...
The classic image of communication between brain cells shows a neurotransmitter crossing the synapse and binding to receptors on the surface of a neighboring neuron. Yet scientists have had only a murky picture of the events within the secreting...
Morse Named Recipient of Highest Engineering Award in Field New Haven, Conn. – On a nearly vertical slope in the Alps virtually inaccessible by helicopter, two mountain climbers get sick and need medical supplies badly. Normally, the sick climbers...
Science education programs for New Haven students from elementary school through Yale College will be funded by a four-year, $1.8 million grant to Yale University from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The programs start with third through...
A French physicist who has been hailed as the “Isaac Newton of our time” for his ability to reduce a broad range of complex phenomena to a few simple truths will deliver the first Silliman Lectures of the 1998-99 academic year at Yale University....
James Gustave Speth, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, has been named dean of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, President Richard C. Levin announced today. Speth’s appointment is effective July 1,...
Three Yale University scientists – a Hungarian mathematician known for his work on the theory of computers, an anthropologist specializing in lemurs, and an expert in computer vision and robotics – recently were named to endowed chairs by vote of the...
