The Yale Graduate School Alumni Association will award its highest honor, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, at this year’s Commencement Convocation on Sunday, May 26, to Linda Gordon (Ph.D. 1970, History), Sharon Long (Ph.D. 1979, Biology), Julia McNamara (...
In the largest study of its kind on mortality patterns in Europe and the United States, a Yale researcher has found a direct correlation between unemployment and mortality.
The study showed that high unemployment rates increase mortality and low...
Joan A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, is the winner of the 2002 Lewis S. Rosentiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research. The award is presented annually to scientists for recent discoveries of...
A scientific investigation of the relationship between children and nature is the focus of a new book co-edited by professors at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the University of Washington. The book, “Children and Nature:...
Among the seniors who will graduate from Yale College on May 27 are several who have achieved extraordinary things-even by Yale standards-in some cases despite daunting challenges.Nana Akua Asafu-Agyei came to Yale from Ghana. Her father died before she...
As Queen Elizabeth II and her subjects observe the 50th anniversary of her reign with public festivities, Yale University is celebrating the milestone with an exhibition of documents and memorabilia from jubilee celebrations past and present. A toy bus...
President Richard C. Levin today congratulated Yale Divinity School Dean Rebecca S. Chopp on her appointment as president of Colgate University and thanked her for her service to Yale. “Colgate is very fortunate to attract Rebecca, who is both a superb...
Yale Chemistry Professor David Austin has received a $100,000 research award from the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance to study tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a genetic disorder that leads to tumor growth in multiple organs, including the brain, kidneys,...
Using a microscopic grain of superconducting aluminum, a researcher who is now at Yale and his colleagues at CEA-Saclay Laboratories in France, have constructed an “artificial atom” that can be used as a quantum bit, an essential component for the...
Using a microscopic grain of superconducting aluminum, a researcher who is now at Yale and his colleagues at CEA-Saclay Laboratories in France, have constructed an “artificial atom” that can be used as a quantum bit, an essential component for the...
