John E. Pepper Jr., former Yale vice president of finance and administration and current co-chair of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, will return to campus March 25–26 as Dwight Hall at Yale’s third annual Curran Distinguished Mentor.The...
A lecture exploring the complex emotional transformations wrought by war, another on “Why Psychoanalysis Has No History” and the screening of a film about Freud disciple Marie Bonaparte are the three spring-term events being presented by the Muriel...
The fifth annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education at Yale University will be held March 28 and 29, with most events taking place in the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The title of this year’s conference is “Public...
The 11th annual Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Colloquium, “Liman at the Local Level: Public Interest Advocacy and American Federalism,” will be held at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., on March 6 and 7.This year’s Colloquium will examine state and local...
Yale Cancer Center and the Connecticut Challenge recently announced $125,000 in pilot funding to support cancer survivorship research at Yale. The funding will support four cancer researchers conducting innovative studies into the health-related issues...
Discrimination against overweight people—particularly women—is as common as racial discrimination, according to a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University.“These results show the need to treat weight discrimination as a...
The Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Connecticut Cancer Partnership have awarded Yale Cancer Center a $745,288 grant to launch a statewide clinical trials network to promote innovative cancer research.The grant is for the development of a...
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau will receive the annual Mental Health Research Advocacy Award from Yale School of Medicine April 5 for his outstanding portrayal of the readjustment issues faced by soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.Trudeau, a Yale...
Smelling food activates different brain areas than consuming it, according to a Yale University study published in Neuron that shows definitively what researchers have long suspected.“We believe that these findings add to our understanding of...
A Yale-developed exercise program designed to reduce bone loss and prevent weight gain in women with cancer is being funded with a $2.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute.The principal investigator, M. Tish Knobf, the American Cancer Society...