A small set of neurons responsible for keeping people alert have the ability to arouse each other, a finding that could have implications for those who work long or odd hours and have difficulty staying awake, a Yale researcher has found. Anthony van...
Yale School of Medicine researchers are testing a promising new treatment for women with recurrent ovarian cancer, which is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women in the United States, affecting one in 100 women. The women will be...
A Yale University postdoctoral scholar, Joseph Entin, is among the first Visiting Scholars at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entin’s research, titled “Sensational Modernism: Disfigured Bodies and Aesthetic...
Benoit Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University, has been awarded the very prestigious Japan Prize by The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. The international prize recognizes “original and outstanding...
Cystic Fibrosis, a fatal lung disease striking one in 2,500 people, may be caused by a failure of the cilia to maintain the level of water associated with the mucus in the lungs, causing the natural mucus to thicken and become infected with bacteria,...
President Richard C. Levin has named Susan Hockfield as the next Provost of Yale University. Hockfield, who was reappointed earlier this fall to a second term as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will succeed Alison Richard, who has been...
The Board of Governors of the Yale University Press appointed as its new director John Donatich, currently Vice President and Publisher of Basic Books. Donatich will succeed John Ryden, who retires as director of the University Press after 23 years of...
Three Yale College seniors are among 40 leading young Americans who were awarded Marshall Scholarships to study at a university in Great Britain next year. Chesa Boudin, of Chicago, is a history major. He spent his junior year studying at the University...
A review of long-term data of new antiepileptic drug (AED) use found that epilepsy patients refill their prescriptions for an average of six to eight months, according to results presented today by a Yale School of Medicine researcher at the American...
Researchers in the Department of Psychiatry and affiliated with Women’s Health Research at Yale will examine sex-specific factors in the association between stress and cocaine addiction with help from a new five-year, $5.8 million grant. The grant is...