Two new locally owned and operated food service establishments, representative of the reawakening of New Haven as a restaurant and entertainment center, will hold a joint grand opening on Monday, January 22 at 2 p.m. Whimsels and Koffee? Too are two...
Yale University will host a symposium on issues in contemporary Irish film, February 1-4, in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will feature panels, lectures and discussions with 21 prominent...
The Yale Entrepreneurial Society will host “YES New York: The Yale Venture Summit,” on Thursday, February 8, from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m. at The Yale Club of New York City, 50 Vanderbilt Ave.The YES summit is an event that brings together members of the New...
Yale Psychology Professor Karen Wynn, who studies infants’ ability to recognize and reason about numbers, has been awarded the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The award, which includes $50,000 in research funding, is...
Researchers are one step closer to reversing brain and spinal cord injuries with the discovery of another molecule in a pathway that prevents axon regeneration, a Yale researcher says. Stephen Strittmatter, M.D., who holds the Vincent Coates Chair of...
A minimally invasive endoscopic surgical procedure is being used at Yale to correct an often troublesome swallowing disorder called Zenker’s diverticulum, which affects thousands of Americans. “This procedure, initially popularized by doctors at Duke,...
Rolena Adorno, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, has won the American Historical Association’s J. Franklin Jameson Award for her three-volume tour de force, “Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of...
Edmund S. Morgan, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale and a leading scholar of American colonial history, was among 12 recipients of the National Humanities Medal for 2000. Cited on the certificate he received at the award ceremony on Dec...
To treat snoring and obstructive sleep apnea, Yale physicians are using a radiofrequency technology called somnoplasty to shrink extra tissues in the nose and throat, and oral appliances to move the lower jaw forward during sleep. “We’ve found this new...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced the appointment of Barbara A. Shailor as the new director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Since 1996, Shailor has been dean of Douglass College at Rutgers, The State...
