The University will use a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish the George M. O’Brien Kidney Center at Yale.The five-year grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases will help fund three...
Two Yale poets — Louise Glück and Henri Cole — have won major prizes from the Academy of American Poets.Glück, an adjunct professor of English and the Rosencranz Writer in Residence, has won the Wallace Stevens Prize, awarded by the chancellors of the...
Yale physicist Jack Harris has demonstrated that one doesn’t have to be a research veteran to push back the frontiers of science.Like Einstein, who was only 26 years old when he came up with the theory of special relativity, Harris — an assistant...
Two celebrated playwrights aboard a trans-Atlantic ocean liner have no ending yet for their new musical comedy, which is to debut on Broadway in four days. In the meantime, their composer, being a fool for love, has tossed his score overboard and is...
Florence S. Wald, dean emerita of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) and founder of hospice in the United States, died on Nov. 8 at her home in Branford. She was 91 years old.Wald, a member of the National Women’s Hall of Fame and an American Academy of...
Dr. Franklin H. Epstein, a former Yale professor known worldwide for his accomplishments in nephrology, died on Nov. 5. He was 84 years old.A 1947 graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, Epstein completed his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where...
The work and philosophies of André Bazin (1918-1958), a renowned French film critic and film theorist, will be explored in a conference taking place on campus Thursday-Sunday, Dec. 4-7.The conference will follow another taking place the last week of...
A 12-member Yale delegation recently spent four days discussing and strategizing about food and agriculture in Turin, Italy, during “Terra Madre,” Slow Food International’s biannual conference.The conference was attended by 7,000 people from over 150...
Hongyu Zhao honoredHongyu Zhao, professor of public health and genetics at the School of Public Health, received the 2008 Mortimer Spiegelman Award.The award recognizes researchers who make outstanding contributions in the field of health statistics.Zhao’...
Carolyn R. Nordstrom, professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver the final lecture in the Fall 2008 Franke series, “Mental Geography: Mapping, Cognition, Appropriation, Inscription.” Her talk, titled “emergent(cies)…,” is on...