Actor-director Al Pacino will visit Yale on Friday, November 19 to conduct a master class for the Yale University Dramatic Association and attend a question-and-answer session following a screening of his film, “Looking for Richard.” Pacino’s schedule...
Yale scientists will initiate cutting edge women’s health research with new grants from the Ethel F. Donaghue Women’s Health Investigator Program at Yale. This year’s recipients of Donaghue Women’s Health Investigator Awards include six Yale faculty...
Herbert S. Chase, M.D., will become Deputy Dean for Education at the Yale School of Medicine in July 2000, Dean David Kessler has announced. Chase succeeds Robert H. Gifford, M.D., who has held the position since 1998. He was Associate Dean for...
The Yale Band will present a tribute to retired musical director Keith Wilson at its concert on November 17 in Woolsey Hall. The concert, which begins at 8 p.m., is free and open to the public. Wilson was a teacher, administrator and musician whose...
The Glee Clubs of Yale and Harvard will hold their 100th combined concert in Woolsey Hall on November 19 at 8 p.m., the night before the Yale-Harvard football contest known at both schools as The Game. Hundreds of alumni of both choruses are expected to...
Yale and Rice University scientists have demonstrated molecular devices that act as reversible electronic switches, making it possible to build smaller computers that are less expensive. The vast improvements and reduced cost seen in computers and...
The answer to how RNA polymerase stays still and moves at the same time while beginning its job of copying DNA into RNA is, according to a Yale scientist: “scrunching.” Using x-ray crystallography, Professor Thomas Steitz, the Eugene Higgins Professor...
Jose Ramos-Horta, winner of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, will be the keynote speaker at a panel discussion on Tuesday, November 16, 3-6 p.m. in the Divinity School’s Marquand Chapel, 409 Prospect St. The discussion, titled “The Case of East Timor,” will...
Yale researchers have developed a new method for recording the electrical activities within living cells, which could lead to better treatment for diseases like Parkinson’s, and provide clues to how learning occurs. “This new technique offers the hope...
Michael J. Donoghue, an expert in biodiversity at Harvard University, has been named the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor in Yale’s burgeoning Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB). Donoghue joins the department at a time of growth in areas...
