University President Richard C. Levin today discussed the economic impact of university research in an address to the Asia Society in Hong Kong. Levin’s address, “The American Research University as an Engine of Economic Growth,” focused on the link...
The Yale University psychiatry department’s new PRIME Research Clinic – short for Prevention through Risk Identification, Management and Education – is revolutionary in its focus on the early identification and prevention of schizophrenia and other...
The discovery nearly two decades ago of naturally occurring ribonucleic acid (RNA) enzymes earned Yale biochemist Sidney Altman and University of Colorado researcher Thomas Cech the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In separate experiments, Altman and...
The Yale University psychiatry department’s new PRIME Research Clinic – short for Prevention through Risk Identification, Management and Education – is revolutionary in its focus on the early identification and prevention of schizophrenia and other...
“Political Theory and the End of Communism” is the theme of this year’s Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics and Economics, which will be presented by Princeton University professor Stephen Holmes, who is widely known for his work in democratic and...
The following talks at Yale University the week of Oct. 5-11 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. NEH chair to speak at campus events William R. Ferris, chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), will be the guest at...
New York Times correspondent R.W. Apple Jr. will speak at Yale University on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 4:30 p.m. in Lecture Room 127 of Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. His talk, sponsored by the Chubb Fellowship, is titled “Politics, Privacy and the Press.” It...
A newly released study of health risks from radon in Connecticut’s drinking water supplies concludes that such exposure poses a minimal threat to public health, primarily by increasing overall exposure slightly when radon in the water is released into...
Nine Yale School of Medicine researchers have been awarded research grants from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). Two of the Yale researchers – George R. Heninger, M.D., professor of psychiatry, and Robert H...
Long before the “Starr Report” and alleged presidential perjury were the topic of the day, Yale pediatric oncologist Dr. Diane Komp decided to explore the issue of lying: why people do it and whether lies are ever justified. Her just-published book...
