Two Yale faculty members have been named MacArthur Foundation Fellows for 2009, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced. Mary Tinetti, M.D., the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health and...
A dedication of the house that first-year students at Yale School of Architecture designed and built themselves will take place at the building site, 16 King Place (between Washington Avenue and Truman Street), on September 24 at 5:30 p.m.Since it was...
Yale’s endowment produced a negative 24.6% return in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, a period marked by a financial crisis during which global equity markets declined by nearly 30%.The endowment value fell to $16.3 billion based on investment losses...
Contrary to the prevailing view, the hormone leptin, which is critical for normal food intake and metabolism, appears to regulate bone mass and suppress appetite by acting mainly through serotonin pathways in the brain, according to a recent study...
As the “green”-conscious know, using less energy and biking and walking more are two ways to help fight climate change. But what if you could combine the two and actually use the energy created through exercise to produce a cleaner form of electricity?...
Three healthcare experts spent an hour and a half at a Yale School of Medicine panel on Sept. 16 striving to bring clarity to a national reform debate they all agreed has been obscure, frustrating and ultimately unenlightening.Yet the complexity of the...
Tzipi Livni, a member of the Israeli parliament and head of the Kadima party, will speak at Yale University as a Chubb Fellow on October 8 at 4:30 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School, 127 Wall St.The talk is free and open to the public....
[Washington, D.C., U.S.A.] Yale University and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) are convening the U.S.-India Energy Partnership Summit on October 1, 2009 in Washington, D.C. to contribute to the ongoing high-level dialogue between the United...
Yale University chemists and engineers will be part of five new federally-funded Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) that are seeking novel ways to tackle the growing energy crisis. Funding for the centers begins this month.A total of 46 EFRCs,...
Creating a video game to help teens avoid sex, drugs and alcohol use—behaviors that could lead to HIV infection—is the aim of a five-year, $3.9 million research grant to Yale from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human...