Scholars and grass-roots activists from more than 15 countries will gather at Yale University, Oct. 8-10, to examine how policy makers have used cost-benefit analysis to justify controversial development projects and environmental decisions. The...
Princeton University Professor of Philosophy Bas van Fraassen will deliver the Dwight H. Terry Lectures at Yale this fall. The talks, collectively called “The Empirical Stance,” will take place on Oct. 19, 21, 26 and 28, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of...
New York State Governor George Pataki will speak at Yale as the next Chubb Fellow on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 5:30 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. Pataki will speak on “The Role of Government in America’s Post-Industrial...
Women with cancer-causing genes who choose lumpectomy and radiation therapy appear to have an increased risk of getting a second tumor in the treated breast five to 10 years after treatment, a Yale study finds. The results of this 14-year study,...
In order to promote favorable living conditions once it invades a cell, the salmonella bacteria injects its host cell with a protein called SptP, a Yale study finds. “These findings bring us closer to understanding the complex mechanisms by which...
A reduction in mental health services at a large Connecticut corporation triggered an increase in medical care use and sick leave, costing the company more money rather than less, according to a Yale study. The results support the long-held belief...
As the U.S. population becomes increasingly diverse, few medical schools provide the kind of cultural diversity training offered at Yale University School of Medicine, according to a recent study of medical schools. The study examined medical school...
Artist and alumnus Ivan Chermayeff will speak on Oct. 26 at 6 p.m. in the Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel St. His lecture, titled “What Design is and What Design is Not,” is free and open to the public. Chermayeff’s work has been...
Throughout this academic year the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University is hosting a series of talks on different aspects of slavery. The series is organized around the two themes of “Slavery and...
An international conference and an exhibit of rare documents are among the events that will take place at Yale this October in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the “Shakespeare” of the German...