President Richard C. Levin today received an honorary degree from Oxford University, where he studied 30 years ago before coming to Yale to earn his doctorate in economics. Levin, along with Harvard University President Neil Rudenstine, received the...
Chemical reactions in the Earth’s middle crust that cause rocks to dehydrate and fracture under pressure may trigger repeated earthquakes along some fault zones, according to research published in the Nov. 15 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters,...
The following talks at Yale University Dec. 1-10 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Regulating gene expression is topic of Kirkwood Medalist’s talk Peter B. Dervan, the Bren Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of...
Learning how to get ahead in the world of politics – as a candidate, an elected or appointed official, a campaign consultant or a lobbyist – will be explored in a one-day workshop, “Politics: the Uncommon Career Choice,” offered by the Women’s Campaign...
James Perrotti, who has served for 25 years on the Yale Police Department and has been its acting chief for the past six months, has been named Chief of Yale University Police. As chief, Perrotti will lead the 77-member Yale police force and will...
Yale and Cornell University biochemists have unveiled the three-dimensional chemical structure of a key protein that is the target of TNP-470, an experimental drug that shows promise for starving cancerous tumors. The discovery could help pharmaceutical...
Yale and Cornell University biochemists have unveiled the three-dimensional chemical structure of a key protein that is the target of TNP-470, an experimental drug that shows promise for starving cancerous tumors. The discovery could help pharmaceutical...
An investigation by the U.S. Department of State Office of the Inspector General into anonymous allegations of financial mismanagement of Yale University’s Cambodian Genocide Program disclosed no evidence of wrongdoing and has been closed, the University...
Five Yale University researchers have been awarded $100,000-a-year, five-year grants from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation, the foundation’s first awards through the Donaghue Investigator Program for Health-related...
In studies at Yale University School of Medicine, rhesus monkeys developed schizophrenia-like symptoms as a result of selective brain damage caused by X-rays during the critical early weeks of fetal development. The monkeys tested normal on a battery...
