“Scientific evidence suggests that humans ultimately evolved from an extinct African Great Ape,” says Yale Anthropology Professor Andrew Hill, a specialist on human evolution and curator of Fossil Fragments: The Riddle of Human Origins, a permanent...
Yale College received a record high number of applicants to the class of 2008, and admitted a record low percentage of those applicants, said Richard H. Shaw Jr., dean of undergraduate admissions and financial aid. The college admitted 1,950 students,...
Protein molecules that help maintain a healthy body temperature, electrolyte balance, respiration, heart rate, and other critical functions, also appear to regulate weight and fertility, according to Yale researchers. STAT3 proteins are regulatory...
Carlos Fuentes, prominent author and Mexican statesman, will visit Yale University as a Chubb Fellow and present a lecture, “Globalization: Pros and Cons,” on April 14 at Center Church on the Green, 250 Temple Street, at 4:30 p.m. Fuentes is being honored...
The time of the talk by Paul Farmer, M.D., a founding director of Partners in Health, an international health organization for the poor, was reported incorrectly. Farmer will speak at Yale School of Medicine Wednesday, March 31, at 4:30 p.m. The talk is...
Daily smoking is strongly related to suicide attempts and self-mutilation among teens hospitalized for psychiatric illnesses, according to a study done in collaboration with a Yale researcher. The study in this month’s Journal of Adolescent Health...
Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State in the Administration of President Clinton, will speak in the Marquand Chapel of Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, on March 30 at 4 p.m. It will also be Web-cast live at http://www.yale.edu/divinity/...
Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State in the Administration of President Clinton, will speak in the Marquand Chapel of Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, on March 30 at 4 p.m. It will also be Web-cast live at http://www.yale.edu/divinity/...
Yale professor Elizabeth Alexander will read from her new collection of essays, “The Black Interior,” on April 8 at 6 p.m. at Blackprint Books, 162 Edgewood Ave. The event is free and open to the public. In “The Black Interior” (January 2004),...
Two of the world’s most celebrated architects and Pritzker Prize laureates, Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, will deliver lectures about their current work at the Yale School of Architecture on April 1 and 5, respectively. The Iraqi-born Hadid recently...
