Looking for an informed and thoughtful comment on the New Year, new century or new millennium? Yale faculty members have perspectives that span all fields of human endeavor, including history, philosophy, religion and politics. Here are a few...
A group of Yale students have developed a device called Gun Guard that keeps children under age six from playing with loaded handguns, while still offering protection for gun owners. Designed in a Yale course called “Creativity and New Product...
Yale researchers have received a $1.5 million grant to develop a computer system that will analyze cancer cells and compare them against thousands of other specimens. The grant awarded to the Center for Medical Informatics will be used to analyze two...
A Yale College senior and two recent graduates were among the 32 men and women recently chosen as Rhodes Scholars from among 935 applicants endorsed by 323 colleges and universities in a nationwide competition. The newest Rhodes Scholars from Yale are...
Nicholas F. Brady, a 1952 graduate of Yale College and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, has announced a gift of $3 million toward renovation of the squash courts at Yale’s Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The refurbished facility, to be known as the...
Two sons of entrepreneur Forrest Mars, Sr., a 1928 Yale graduate who created M&M’s® and other candy and food brands, will honor his memory by endowing a professorship at Yale for the study of the ethical dimensions of economics, politics and business...
A new screening test that could significantly improve the detection of fetal Down syndrome will be tested in a national clinical trial by Yale researchers beginning in January. The modified urine pregnancy test, hyperglycosylated hCG (HhCG), was...
Yale Environmental Law Professor Dan Esty – considered the foremost expert on the issue of trade and the environment – was in Seattle this week for the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting. He is back in Connecticut and available for interviews...
A Yale study reveals that B cells play a leading role in promoting the development of unique cells that serve as gatekeepers for disease in the gastrointestinal area. B cells once were thought to function mainly as sources of serum antibody and as...
Whether or not a woman’s ovaries are removed during hysterectomy depends partly on where she lives and her surgeon’s experience, according to a Yale School of Medicine study. Removal of healthy ovaries-oophorectomy-is believed to be the most effective...
