Yale’s Cross Campus and downtown New Haven will resound once again with the sounds of children’s festivities on Saturday, April 15 during Communiversity Day, cosponsored by Yale and the city of New Haven. The event, geared for children ages 7 - 13, is...
A Yale senior majoring in Latin American studies has been named one of five recipients of the 2000 Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award for his commitment to community service during the opening session of the national Youth Leadership Council’s...
Yale School of Nursing Associate Dean Margaret Grey, DrPH, PNP, FAAN, has been awarded a $2.4 million federal grant to expand work on her program for adolescents with diabetes, an intervention that she demonstrated to significantly improve control of the...
Barbara A. Smith, R.N., F.A.A.N., an expert on the effects of exercise on serious illness, will deliver the Sybil Palmer Bellos Lecture at the Yale University School of Nursing on March 23, at 4 p.m. Smith, the O’Koren Endowed Chair at the University of...
Yale University and the University of Connecticut have received $6 million in grants to study ways of reducing the spread of HIV among drug users and others with HIV infection. One study will recruit HIV positive drug users to counsel their fellow...
John E. Ecklund, who left a career as a prominent New Haven attorney to serve for more than a decade as treasurer of Yale University, died March 9 in New Haven after a long illness. He was 84 years old. A 1938 graduate of Yale College and 1941 graduate...
A Yale research team has made a groundbreaking discovery that could make humans, livestock and crops a much less tasty meal for insects. The first insect taste receptor genes, which encode the proteins that underlie the insects’ sense of taste, have...
Increased use of the Technology Access Center (TAC) at Stetson Library in the Dixwell neighborhood, co-sponsored by Yale University and SNET, has led to more evening class offerings, most of which are nearly filled to capacity. Frank Meoli, the TAC’s...
A Yale psychiatrist testing the use of magnetic stimulation for schizophrenics who hear voices says increasing the duration of stimulation produces longer periods of relief. The research by Ralph Hoffman, M.D., associate professor and assistant medical...