The U.S. Dept of Education has awarded more than $9 million to the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale for expansion and development of five of its studies councils in the areas of Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin...
Fifteen teachers from the U.S. and nine from Ghana have convened on the Yale Campus for a seminar hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition about the Transatlantic Slave Trade.For more information see the...
As Haiti rebuilds from the devastation of January’s earthquake, a Yale study finds that the country’s most vulnerable children will likely face unique and additional risks in the forms of gender-based violence against women, child trafficking and poor...
Why is it that two people can consume the same high fat, high-calorie Western diet and one becomes obese and prone to diabetes while the other maintains a slim frame? This question has long baffled scientists, but a study by Yale School of Medicine...
Standard therapeutic techniques decrease cravings of cigarette smokers by regulating activity in two separate but related areas of the brain, a new study led by a Yale University researcher shows.Smokers who are taught cognitive strategies, such as...