New findings by Yale researchers bring us one step closer to understanding why we have fleeting memories of some events, yet remember other incidents for a lifetime. In a study published Friday in the journal Science, Professor Thomas Carew and co-...
Yale today received a $100,000 grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., to support STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) – a program to promote academic success in the sciences among women, minorities and the physically...
A Yale research team has found that repeated use of cocaine causes changes in the brain that persist long after the drug is no longer used. “There have been no adequately effective treatments for cocaine addiction because we know very little about...
Four Yale students have been named winners in the BF Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Program. The competition, which drew entries from more than 200 colleges and universities across the country, is sponsored by the BFGoodrich Co. and administered by the...
Six new laboratories for spinal cord research by Yale scientists will be dedicated Sept. 27 at the Neuroscience and Regeneration Research Center at the Veterans Administration Hospital in West Haven. The Phil N. Allen and Mayreta V. Allen Laboratories...
Yale University unveiled a modified $38 million plan today to renovate, restore, and improve its historic Divinity School, enabling the School to best fulfill its academic mission. The plan, by architects Robert Kliment and Frances Halsband, is...
Psychology Professor Allan R. Wagner is a recipient of this year’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association for “outstanding contributions” to the study of conditioning and behavior theory. Wagner is one of...
A Yale researcher has helped increase our understanding of telomerase, an enzyme that makes cancer cells grow, which could lead to new ways to attack cancer with chemotherapy. The researcher, Professor Sandra L. Wolin, says the discovery is significant...
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition will announce the winner of its first annual $25,000 prize for the most outstanding book published on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition on...
- In a big boost to downtown redevelopment efforts, Mayor John DeStefano and Yale University Vice President Bruce Alexander announced today that three businesses, including a national urban clothing store, plan to open their doors on Broadway. The new...