This event has been postponed due to the Ambassador’s Official Business. The future of U.S.-Japan relations under the administration of President Barack Obama will be the topic of a lecture by His Excellency Ichiro Fujisaki, the Ambassador Extraordinary...
Most animals, like humans, have separate sexes — they are born, live out their lives and reproduce as one sex or the other. However, some animals live as one sex in part of their lifetime and then switch to the other sex, a phenomenon called sequential...
Poet, librettist and Yale professor J.D. McClatchy has been named President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.A professor of English at Yale and, since 1991, the editor of The Yale Review, McClatchy succeeds another Yale faculty member and...
Why do some people exposed to West Nile virus get deathly ill and others emerge unscathed? In a study that both helps to answer that question and could point the way toward prevention and effective treatment, scientists at Yale University have isolated...
In addition to land and buildings, Yale’s recent purchase of the West Campus included an inventory of laboratory equipment and consumable supplies (i.e., test tubes, culture plates, etc.) with a fair market value of nearly $2 million. The Provost’s Office...
On a brisk Saturday morning in November, pre-teen girls from across the greater New Haven area clamored around a large pile of pipe cleaners, sparkles, crayons, pom poms and glue sticks. Scattered throughout were less-familiar items: alligator clips, wire...
Not many teachers would have the courage to ask, on the last day of class, how many of the nearly 180 students sitting before him had been dreading the course when it first began back in September. But that’s exactly what Scott Miller, the Irénée duPont...
A team of Yale University researchers has found that school-based programs for obesity prevention and reversal are generally effective and are an important component in battling what many regard as a national obesity epidemic among young people.In recent...
Ira Flatow, host and executive producer of “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” on National Public Radio, will give a public lecture on campus on Tuesday, February 10.Titled “Talking Science in A Science-Challenged World,” Flatow’s talk will begin at 4 p....