A letter to Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, written by Yale Law School faculty and students about the use of military tribunals has been circulated among U.S. legal scholars. By the time the...
An abscess detected in the brain of a young woman was believed caused by an infection resulting from having her tongue pierced one month earlier, two Yale physicians have reported. This is believed to be the first report of a brain abscess associated...
In the first large national study on the topic, Yale researchers found male and female physicians were more likely to refer men than women for cardiac catheterization, a diagnostic procedure used to assess blood flow to the heart, after a heart attack...
Robert Sternberg, the IBM professor of psychology and education, and director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies and Expertise (PACE) at Yale, has been named president of the American Psychological Association (APA). The APA is...
Shayna Strom and Sunita Puri, both seniors at Yale College, have been awarded 2002 Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford University. Strom, of Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, had the unusual double honor of winning a Marshall Scholarship last week....
James Jones, head coach of the Yale University men’s basketball team, will host a free basketball clinic for young people, aged 7 to 14, in Fair Haven next Saturday. “This is a great opportunity for New Haven’s youth to come out and enjoy learning the...
The New Haven Public School Citywide Science Fair, co-sponsored by Yale University, Olin Corporation and Bayer Corporation, will receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring at the St. Regis Hotel in...
There is no evidence that adult primates are able to create new neurons in the neocortex, the most sophisticated part of the brain, Yale researchers have found in a study published in the December 7 issue of Science. The results do not support widely...
Two events taking place this coming week will finish the Yale lecture and discussion series “Democracy, Security and Justice: Perspectives on the American Future” for this term. On Sunday, December 9, Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor...
Two current Yale students, Jennifer Nou and Shanya Strom, and two recent alumni, Zachary Kaufman and Krishanti Vignarajah, have been named winners of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for study in a British university. Kaufman, of Morgantown, West...
