Yale Provost Susan Hockfield announced Friday, November 7, 2003 that Pfizer Inc. will fund a graduate fellowship in neuroscience in honor of Patricia Goldman-Rakic, who died last July. Goldman-Rakic was Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurobiology at the...
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Yale’s Child Study Center and Department of Computer Science have received a new grant from the Doris Duke Foundation to advance autism research. They are planning to use a humanoid robot as an interactive...
Three women astronauts will discuss their work in a panel discussion titled “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women Pioneers in Space” on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 5:15 p.m. in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. The panelists will include...
Yale University, state and New Haven officials and Fuel Cell Energy, Inc. will dedicate Connecticut’s first high-efficiency Direct Fuel Cell power plant at Yale on Wednesday, December 3, at noon. Fuel cells are environmentally friendly, quiet and...
Yale President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Harold Hongju Koh, an expert on human rights and international law, as dean of Yale Law School. Koh, who has taught at Yale Law School since 1985, served as Assistant Secretary of State for...
Representatives from Northeastern colleges will gather on the Yale campus November 14 to strategize a transformation in college dining. The one-day conference, “Tilling the Soil, Turning the Tables,” is a day of panels and workshops promoting...
Despite previous reports concluding that patients want full disclosure about their illness, many seriously ill older persons and caregivers may not be ready or able to receive information such as life expectancy, research at Yale shows. Published in the...
Charles J. Lockwood, M.D., the Anita O’Keefe Young Professor of Women’s Health and chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics, will...
Yale Chemistry Professor William Jorgensen is the new editor of the Journal of Chemical Information & Computer Science (JCIS), published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society. Jorgensen, a computer methods...
A funeral service was held Monday, November 24, for Barry Kacinski, M.D., a Yale School of Medicine radiologist who lead groundbreaking research defining the effects of growth factors and oncogenes in the development of malignancies. Kacinski, a...