Taking in too many calories far outweighs getting too little exercise as a cause of obesity, according to a study of a hunter-gatherer society co- authored by Yale anthropologist Brian Wood and recently published in the July issue of the journal PLoS One....
This term will see the first conference hosted by the recently established Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA), an interdisciplinary enterprise that embraces the humanities and social sciences to understand the history and contributing...
Keith S. Thomson, former director of both Yale’s Peabody Museum and Graduate School and executive officer of the American Philosophical Society, will deliver the remaining two Dwight H. Terry lectures in the series “Jefferson and Darwin: Science and...
Columbia, Cornell, and Yale universities have joined forces on an innovative education initiative to increase access to less-commonly taught languages.(Illustration by Michael Helfenbein)What started as a pilot project has attracted a two-year $1.2...
A grant of $650,000 to Yale from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow scholars to apply the newest digital technology to advance their knowledge of the hand-scribed legacy of the Middle Ages.Students and scholars at work, in this manuscript from...