This issue marks both the debut of “Working @ Yale” in the Yale Bulletin & Calendar, and the launch of a new partnership between the Office of Human Resources and Administration Communications and the Office of Public Affairs.
In May, the two offices...
Art conservators, like medical doctors, are governed by the principle “First, do no harm,” and they go about their task of preserving art and artifacts using delicacy and cautionBut for museum conservators, the boundary between harming and healing a work...
Given that the ancient Greeks theorized the existence of atoms more than 2,500 years ago, it might seem that scientists must know everything about these tiny elements of matter and how they interact with one another by now. But John Tully insists there’s...
While the quality of medical care available in the United States is the best in the world, says otolaryngologist Dr. Keat Jin Lee of the Yale School of Medicine, the system that delivers that healthcare is unacceptably expensive, disjointed and wasteful....
The Hillel Children’s School at Yale may offer specific lessons on such topics as the meaning of the Sabbath or how to read a Hebrew prayer, but the most important thing it aims to teach its students is what it means to be Jewish.The school, which...
In research that could lead the way to development of stronger vaccines and better therapy against tumors and autoimmune diseases, a team of researchers from Yale School of Medicine has shown how blocking a protein that controls cellular growth and death...
Selenium is a trace element crucial to life — too little or too much of it is fatal. In the July 17 issue of the journal Science, researchers at Yale University and University of Illinois at Chicago detail the molecular mechanisms that govern its...
Yale University will open historic Betts House, formerly known as the Davies Mansion, to the public on August 15 at 10 a.m. for a tour that will highlight the building’s architectural history and recent renovation. The tour will also include the recently...
Physician-scientist David A. Hafler, MD, a leader in the effort to better understand the molecular basis of multiple sclerosis (MS), has been named chief and chair of neurology at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and Yale School of Medicine (YSM). His...
Retroviruses such as HIV that are already within cells are much more easily transmitted when they are next to uninfected cells than if they are floating free in the bloodstream. “Cell-to-cell transmission is a thousand times more efficient, which is why...