The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will present the first Forum for the Study of Jews and Sports with a special screening April 12 of “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg,” a critically acclaimed documentary on the baseball great. Sports...
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, with support from the Yale Law School and department of English, will host an interdisciplinary conference titled “Sexuality, Modernity and Social Theory” on March 31 and April 1. The conference will focus on...
“Witness: Voices from the Holocaust,” an award-winning documentary that weaves together the life stories of 19 Holocaust survivors, will preview at Yale on March 23 at 7:30 p.m. The film will be aired nationally on PBS on May 1 in honor of Holocaust...
The Yale Faculty Practice, a multi-specialty academic medical practice comprised of over 650 clinical faculty members from the Yale School of Medicine, elected 10 physicians last month to serve on its Board of Governors. The elections were the first...
The fifth annual Domestic Violence Seminar will be held at The Yale School of Public Health, 60 College St. on March 27 and 28. “It’s important that the issue of domestic violence receives public attention,” said seminar co-chair Kathryn Finney. “...
Working memory loss can be reversed using a short-term drug regimen that produces long-lasting effects, a Yale study has found. Results from this study led by Stacy Castner at Yale School of Medicine may ultimately lead to new treatment strategies for...
A therapeutic cocaine vaccine designed to suppress the high addicts get from taking cocaine is safe and produced cocaine antibodies in humans, a Yale study finds. Thomas Kosten, M.D., principal investigator on the phase 1 study, and his team...
A Yale study of elderly people found that 24 percent complained of recurring dizziness and that factors such as anxiety, depression and heart disease might cause dizziness. “This kind of dizziness is common,” said Mary Tinetti, M.D., professor of...
Yale research on the new protein Calcyon could lead to development of more effective drugs for conditions which are marked by dopamine deficiency, such as Parkinson’s, chronic schizophrenia and possibly attention deficit hyperactivity disorder....
At its annual Robert L. Bernstein Symposium March 31-April 1, the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School will award the 2000-2001 Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowships. This year’s symposium...