The Handsome Dans — a team of Yale affiliates who raised money for prostate cancer research as part of “Movember” — raised just over $2,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Nick Aberle, a postdoctoral fellow, started the team to help out a cause that...
The gift shops in Yale museums can be great sources of unusual gifts for the holidays. The shops at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.) and the Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.) feature a wide assortment of items,...
The Schools of Drama and Music have joined forces to launch the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, a program designed to help nurture gifted young musical theater writers.The artistic director of the program will be Mark Brokaw, whose directing credits...
Yale School of Drama dean James Bundy is among five individuals and organizations being honored by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven as artistic “ground breakers.”Bundy, who is also artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, is a recipient of...
Two current Yale undergraduates and a recent alumna will be studying in Britain and Ireland next year as either Rhodes or Mitchell Scholars. Jarrad M. Aguirre ’09 is among the 32 Americans selected as Rhodes Scholars for study at Oxford next year, and...
Fellow Yale rowers Bob Casey and Rich Littlehale enjoy scheming about potential business ventures, but when they became serious about forming a company to sell vitamin water — with some of the proceeds supporting health research — they realized that there...
Not long after Yale juniors Rich Littlehale and Bob Casey realized that their idea of starting a company selling vitamin water was financially unfeasible, they began thinking of a potential new venture.At a conference in Chicago last spring, Casey learned...
The University will use a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish the George M. O’Brien Kidney Center at Yale.The five-year grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases will help fund three...
Two Yale poets — Louise Glück and Henri Cole — have won major prizes from the Academy of American Poets.Glück, an adjunct professor of English and the Rosencranz Writer in Residence, has won the Wallace Stevens Prize, awarded by the chancellors of the...
Yale physicist Jack Harris has demonstrated that one doesn’t have to be a research veteran to push back the frontiers of science.Like Einstein, who was only 26 years old when he came up with the theory of special relativity, Harris — an assistant...