For the first time on a national scale, voters completing one essential fall ritual, casting their ballot, simultaneously took part in another: getting vaccinated against the flu.Flu vaccination clinics around the country were set up within — or nearby —...
Undergraduates have been informed that they should apply for additional financial aid for the spring term if their family’s economic circumstances have changed due to the financial crisis or other events. The Director of Student Financial Services issued...
The United Way of Greater New Havens’s Leadership Circle has recognized Bruce Alexander, vice president for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development at Yale, and his wife, Christine Alexander, the founder and executive director of New Haven...
With HHMI funding, these Yale scientists are working to solve some of the most challenging biomedical mysteries.When the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has gone looking for biomedical researchers of “intellectual daring” in recent years, one place...
Yale and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will share a $10 million grant to study the way cocaine use during pregnancy affects interactions between mothers and infants.The Yale portion of the study will be spearheaded by Dr. Linda Mayes,...
Yale University will open the historic Mead Visitor Center, 149 Elm St., to the public on December 4, 5–7:30 p.m. for tours and light refreshments. The Open House is being held in conjunction with the City of New Haven’s holiday festivities on the nearby...
By the time they complete his mechanical engineering class, Professor John Morrell’s students will have designed and built a hybrid car or a model airplane and entered them in national competitions.During the semester, the Yale undergraduates in his class...
“Teaching is about joining students in learning to deal not only with the material but also with their lives” — so says Ansgar Mohnkern, one of nine Yale doctoral students who were awarded this year’s Prize Teaching Fellowships (PTFs).Considering what...
Sobering childhood obesity rates in New Haven hit home for Yale baseball star Joshua Cox, who helped organize the first annual Yale Athletic Health Fair and Community Dinner, which takes place on Saturday, December 6. The free event, which aims to educate...
For Ross Mitchell and Taylor Kilian, graduate students in geology and geophysics, the end of the work week sometimes marks the beginning of their work.Weekends often find them far from New Haven, studying paleomagnetism — using “fossilized” magnetic...