Pierre Hohenberg, deputy provost for physical sciences and engineering at Yale University, has been selected to receive the 1999 Max Planck Medaille, the most prestigious prize given by the German Physical Society for theoretical physics. The first...
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute announced today it has awarded $1.3 million in grants to enable four cities to replicate the Institute’s successful program for improving classroom teaching in public schools. As part of a national project...
The following talks at Yale University from Jan. 25-31 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Talk marks opening of exhibit of works by woodcut artist Robert Conway of the Fritz Eichenberg Trust will speak on “Fritz Eichenberg and the...
The fifth annual “Rebellious Lawyering” Conference will be held at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., Feb. 19-21. The conference will bring together practitioners, law students, community activists/advocates, and professors from around the country to...
The public is invited to the semester-long Distinguished Lecturer lunchtime series titled “The Restoration Agenda: Focus on Plants” at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES), now underway. Topics include naturalistic...
Yale University recently was ranked fourth among America’s top research universities when “citation impact” was used to assess scientific performance. Citation impact was measured by calculating the average number of times an institution’s published...
The following talks at Yale University Jan. 18-24 are free and open to the public. Assisted reproduction technology is focus of physician’s talk Dr. Marcelle I. Cedars, director of the Assisted Reproduction Program and director of ambulatory...
8. Simple Test Quickly Detects Alzheimer’s Disease in Older Adults 9. Estrogen-Androgen Therapy Improves Sexual Function in Women 10. Women Under 75 Twice as Likely to Die as Men After Heart Attack 11. Fetal Brain Damage in Monkeys Leads to...
Philosopher Stanley Cavell, the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University, joins the Yale faculty this semester as the Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in the Humanities and Social Thought. He...
Industrial ecology professor Thomas E. Graedel of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies recently was appointed chair of the Grand Challenges in Environmental Sciences Committee by the National Academy of Sciences. The committee’s role is...
