Hearing the sobering statistics regarding the rate of childhood obesity in New Haven hit home for Yale baseball star Josh Cox, inspiring him to organize the first annual Yale Athletic Health Fair and Community Dinner.The free event — which aimed to...
During his Yale years, Adam M. Bouland ‘09 has worked on developing new ways to learn about the early universe and has helped bring clean water to a remote Cameroonian village.After graduation, Bouland will be heading to Cambridge University, where he...
Yale’s Office of Sustainability has reported a 7% reduction in the University’s greenhouse gas emissions since 2005 despite a 3.2% increase in the size of the campus during that period.President Richard C. Levin committed Yale three years ago to a 43%...
United Way of Greater New Haven recently had the opportunity to talk with John Blum, professor emeritus of history, who has been donating to the organization for 50 years and counting.Blum, 87, says that donating to the United Way is his way of saying “...
Dr. Samuel Ritvo, a leader in psychoanalysis and child psychiatry who was a faculty member for nearly six decades at the Yale Child Study Center, died on Dec. 3 at age 91.Ritvo’s research interests included longitudinal studies of child development,...
Dr. Luigi Mastroianni, an internationally recognized pioneer in reproductive biology who began some of his groundbreaking research while at Yale, died on Nov. 25 at the age of 83.Mastroianni was the William Goodell Emeritus Professor and chair of the...
People do act as if it is better to give than receive, but perhaps not for purely altruistic reasons, Yale researchers report. People are much more likely to offer help such as providing a ride to the train station to a casual friend than to ask for...
Edward Zigler earns the ‘Nobel Prize for Children’Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology, was honored with a Humanitarian Award by the World of Children organization on Nov. 13.World of Children is a global recognition and funding non-...
Yale University is disappointed that the government of Peru has rejected Yale’s offers to negotiate a collaborative agreement and instead decided to sue the University to recover archaeological material legally excavated at Machu Picchu nearly a century...
Pregnancy and surgery patients with a serious blood disorder that causes excessive clotting have responded well to treatment with a man-made anti-clotting protein. Results from a study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and other institutions were...