A team of Yale researchers have identified a genetic marker that can help predict the risk of developing ovarian cancer, a hard to detect and often deadly form of cancer.Reporting online in the July 20 edition of the journal Cancer Research, the team...
Cultivating the musical talents of New Haven students is the focus of a new Yale School of Music (YSM) program making its debut this summer July 26-August 30.The Morse Summer Music Academy at YSM is designed to nurture creativity and develop musicianship...
A new Yale University study reveals that gender plays an important role in determining the risk of specific psychiatric illnesses in children of alcoholics. The gender of both the alcoholic parent and the child were key factors in the types of disorders...
The “Economic Security Index” (ESI), a new tool to measure the economic well-being of American families which was developed at the Rockefeller Foundation by Yale Professor Jacob Hacker, will be launched on July 22 in Washington, D.C.Members of the media...
U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut will hold a hearing at Yale University on Monday, July 26, on “The State of the American Child: What’s Working for Connecticut’s Children.” The hearing will begin at 9 a.m. at the Yale Child Study Center,...
Two Yale scientists have received a 2010 Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health, given annually to scientists doing innovative and potentially groundbreaking research.Haifan Lin, director of the Yale Stem Cell Center, and Tamas Horvath,...
Yale Repertory Theatre has received a $1 million gift from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of the activities of the Yale Center for New Theatre over the next five years.The Yale Center for New Theatre is an integrated, artist-driven initiative...
Yale Professor Marcia Inhorn, a leading scholar in the field of medical anthropology, has been named the first Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge in honor of her...
Faculty appointments President Richard C. Levin announced the following appointments: Julia Adams, professor of sociology, as chair of the Department of Sociology; Steven Berry, the James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics, as director of the...
With an ever-growing collection that already boasts more than 12 million specimens, it was getting tough for the Peabody Museum of Natural History to find space for all of its treasures, many of which were stored in cramped spaces that made inventory and...