Stephen Kellert, professor of social ecology and a member of the Yale faculty for 24 years, has been named the Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. “Professor Kellert is a prolific writer,...
Women under the age of 60 have a higher risk of dying than men under 60 in the two years after they suffer a heart attack, a study by a Yale researcher and collaborators shows. These sex-based differences in mortality rates are independent of the...
Four journalists who have covered the environment for the New York Times, Time magazine and the former Boston Globe will discuss “What Has Happened Since the 1992 Earth Summit, How We Can Do Better, and What the Media Can and Can’t Do,” in a panel...
Eight-year-old Hiam, a Palestinian girl who lost an eye after being shot in Gaza, is receiving a prosthetic eye work-up with help from the Yale Eye Center and Mazin Qumsiyeh, associate professor of genetics at Yale School of Medicine. According to...
Joan Steitz, the Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, is one of five recipients of the “For Women in Science Program” award from L’Oreal Beauty Company and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale will hold a symposium on the role of the humanities at Yale and in higher education, March 30 and 31 at 53 Wall St. The symposium, “Beginning with the Humanities,” is part of the celebration of the University’s...
Simon Schama, the historian who wrote and narrated the popular BBC “History of Britain” series, will give the 2001 Finzi-Contini Lecture on March 22 at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. A professor of history and art history at Columbia...
Using an innovative method called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to measure brain responsiveness, Yale researchers have found that a cocaine addict’s response to stimulation is decreased, indicating possible evidence that cocaine causes...
The Yale University Library and Elsevier Science announce today a year-long planning process for the creation of a digital archive for the 1,100 journals published electronically by Elsevier Science. Assuring the preservation of digital information is...
Students from Career Regional Magnet High School will depart for Hartford on March 1 for the first phase of the FIRST Robotics Competition, thanks to sponsorship from Yale and the United Illuminating Company. The students’ entry is sponsored by Yale’s...
