Yale University today welcomed 426 of the world’s outstanding future scholars to its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which begins its 152nd year this week. Chosen from a talented pool of more than 4,000 applicants, the newest graduate students at...
About 1,300 freshmen in the Yale Class of 2002 will attend their first academic lecture exploring discoveries about twists and quirks of the human mind on Sunday, Aug. 30, 7:15-8:15 p.m. Psychologist Mahzarin R. Banaji will present the Ralph H. Thomas...
The human immune system, an elegant and intricate biological defense system unmatched in most life forms, may have evolved from a mobile piece of DNA that inserted itself into the mammalian genome more than 450 million years ago. A team of researchers...
David A. Kessler, M.D., J.D., dean of Yale University’s School of Medicine and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.), has accepted an invitation from The Mayday Fund to serve as honorary chairman of its newly formed National...
Rabbi David Hartman, a philosopher and social activist, will be the next Terry Lecturer at Yale. He will deliver three addresses on the theme, “Struggling for the Soul of Israel: a Jewish Response to History.” All three talks are free and the public...
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale will host a conference titled “The Broken Middle: Cultural Studies and the Liberal Imagination,” Sept. 25-26, in the Center’s Auditorium, 53 Wall St. In the early 1950s, Lionel Trilling claimed that in the United...
Yale University will inaugurate a tradition tomorrow, Aug. 26, when it welcomes 426 new students to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at a formal Matriculation Ceremony. This is the first time such a ceremony has been held at Yale in the 152...
Yale College will welcome the Class of 2002 on Aug. 28, when 1,305 entering freshmen arrive in New Haven for orientation. The freshmen class was selected from among 11,947 applicants. “We are honored to receive such an accomplished group of students...
Classes at Yale College, the undergraduate college of Yale University, will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 2. Freshmen check into their dormitories starting at 9 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 28. At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, President Richard C....
Beta-blockers are not prescribed for many older patients who could benefit from their use after heart attacks, according to an article in the Aug. 19 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In fact, the study found that only...
