Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced today that Michael A. Peel, Executive Vice President of General Mills, Inc., has been appointed as Vice President for Human Resources and Administration, effective October 1, 2008.Peel will oversee all...
A group of Yale undergraduates have discovered dozens of potentially beneficial bioactive microorganisms within plants they collected in the Amazon rain forest, including several so genetically distinct that they may be the first members of new...
Representatives of Yale University met with a delegation from the government of Peru at the Peruvian UN permanent mission in New York.Negotiations initiated last year by President Alan Garcia of Peru and President Richard C. Levin of Yale led to a...
Yale University researchers reported Tuesday they have found a molecular mechanism by which estrogen improves memory, a finding that may aid the quest to improve cognition in aging women without the negative health effects of hormone therapy. The issue of...
Representantes de la Universidad de Yale se reunieron hoy con una delegación del Gobierno Peruano en la sede de la Representación Peruana ante las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York.Las negociaciones iniciadas el año pasado por el Presidente del Perú Alan...
President Richard C. Levin has named Yale College Dean Peter Salovey as University provost effective October 1.“Few in Yale’s history have been so well prepared to become provost,” Levin said of Salovey. “He has been a highly successful and much admired...
President Richard C. Levin has named Professor Michael Donoghue as the first Vice President for West Campus Planning and Program Development, effective October 1.“Michael’s background as both a leading scientist and a museum director makes him uniquely...
Michael Simons, M.D., a distinguished heart researcher and physician, has been appointed section chief of cardiovascular medicine at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH). Simons assumes his new position at YNHH and YSM on...
Yale University researchers have found a new method to create lasting genetic changes within human cells, opening up the possibility of new treatments for inherited diseases like sickle cell anemia.The researchers corrected a specific defect within a...
The 1,320 freshmen in the Yale College Class of 2012 will be welcomed to campus August 29. The class was selected from a record-high applicant pool of 22,817, of which a record-low of 8.6 percent of the applicants were admitted.The students hail from 48...