Early improvements in health-related quality of life for epilepsy patients were sustained over several years of treatment with the antiepileptic drug levetiracetam, according to new research presented today by Yale School of Medicine researchers at the...
The Yale Whitney Humanities Center has canceled “Man and Beast,” a symposium scheduled for December 7-8, owing to the sudden death on December 2 of the symposium’s originator, Naomi Schor. The symposium was to have gathered scholars from many...
Yale neurovirology expert Anthony van den Pol and colleagues have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a virus which can lead to deafness, mental retardation and brain diseases such as...
Environmental protection programs recently enacted by the Chinese government augur well for the future of the giant panda, according to the article, “Giant Pandas in a Changing Landscape,” published in the November 16 issue of Science by a Yale faculty...
Naomi Schor, one of the foremost scholars of French literature and critical theory and one of the pioneer feminist theorists of her generation, died suddenly in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 2, 2001 at the age of 58. At the time of her death,...
Prominent journalist and editor Fareed Zakaria will speak at Yale’s Battell Chapel, on the corner of Elm and College streets, tonight at 7 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship program, his talk, “Why Do They Hate Us? America in a New World,” is...
Maya Lin, designer of some of the nation’s most renowned public monuments, will be speaking at Yale tonight at 7:30 p.m., as part of the Tercentennial celebration’s William C. DeVane Lecture series. Most closely associated with the Vietnam Veterans...
Yale University theologian Miroslav Volf has won the 2002 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book “Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation.” Volf, who is the Henry B. Wright Professor...
Yale surgeon James “Butch” Rosser, M.D., has devised a portable, cost-effective testing program called “Operation Beating Heart” to detect potential causes of sudden death in young, competitive athletes. The program uses a combination of telemedicine-...
Yale University professors James C. Scott and Dale Basil Martin have been awarded Fulbright grants to lecture and pursue academic research in Europe. Scott is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and holds a joint appointment in the...
