In a major advance in obesity and diabetes research, Yale School of Medicine scientists have found that reducing levels of a key enzyme in the brain decreased appetites and increased energy levels. Reductions in the levels of the enzyme...
Five Yale School of Medicine investigators have received new Pilot Project Program grants from Women’s Health Research at Yale. They will study a variety of women’s health areas and gender differences that affect disease and behavior. The research is...
As part of its continuing engagement in global health issues, Yale University’s Global Health Leadership Institute is partnering with Tsinghua University to launch a four-year leadership development program in healthcare management for women in China. The...
Synchronicity in nature is seen in beating hearts, the flashing of fireflies’ lights, the ebb and flow of infectious disease—and the simultaneous rise and fall of populations across vast reaches of space. While scientists have identified some factors that...
A team of astronomers has discovered a group of rare galaxies called the “Green Peas” with the help of citizen scientists working through an online project called Galaxy Zoo. The finding could lend unique insights into how galaxies form stars in the early...
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has announced the finalists for the 11th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African-American experience.The...
Dr. John H. Krystal is named chair of School of Medicine’s Department of PsychiatryDr. John H. Krystal, the Robert L. McNeil Professor of Translational Research, has been named chair of the Department of Psychiatry. Krystal will also serve as chief of...
The papers of William F. Buckley Jr. ‘50 are now part of Yale’s permanent collection, thanks to the generosity of his son, Christopher T. Buckley ‘75. Credited with launching the modern conservative movement in America, the elder Buckley deposited more...
Ami Klin, the newly designated Harris Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, is a developmental psychologist who is a world-renowned expert on severe developmental disorders, particularly autism and related conditions.Klin is the director of the...
Andreas Savvides, the newly named Barton L. Weller Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, focuses his work on wireless embedded systems and wireless sensor networks.His appointment is through June 20, 2013. Savvides, who also holds a faculty...