Yale faculty member J.D. McClatchy has received the 2010 Ambassador Book Award for Poetry from the English-Speaking Union of the United States for his book of poems “Mercury Dressing” (2009).The Ambassador Book Awards recognize important literary works...
As part of a multi-year preparation for a major renovation and expansion currently underway, the Yale University Art Gallery undertook a thorough review of its vast holding of paintings, sculpture and artifacts, only a small percentage of which have ever...
When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant as the dinosaur’s appearance. Over a few beers with fellow paleontologists one night, he blurted out the...
Most scientists have viewed electrical fields within the brain as the simple byproducts of neuronal activity. However, Yale scientists report in the July 15 issue of the journal Neuron that electrical fields can also influence the activity of brain cells....
Yale believes the humane use of animals in research is more than justified by the benefits it yields to humankind. Virtually all medical advances of the last century would have been impossible without animal research. From antibiotics and blood...
Addictive behaviors in women involving tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs and overeating will be the focus of a new five-year, $2.5 million faculty training grant awarded to Yale University researchers in the Department of Psychiatry.The grant, funded by the...
In a fundamental shift in the view of how bacteria proliferate and survive, Yale scientists report online June 20 in the journal Nature that most of the genetic action within a cell takes place close to home.Since bacteria lack internal compartments such...
In the hope of stemming one of the biggest public health crises in Southeast Asia, Yale is partnering with the University of Malaya to fight the spread of HIV among drug users in Malaysia who are completing prison terms and transitioning back into the...
Cesar Millan of “Dog Whisperer” fame will join several noted child development and education experts speaking at the Yale School of the 21st Century National Conference at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale July 19-21.The leadership and staff developmental...
A Yale University study of the health problems of people infected with HIV reveals that those who also have substance abuse problems are at greater risk for other serious illnesses than those who do not— primarily because the substance abuse leads to...