Small ants may use fewer resources, but energy-hogging big ants tend to win evolution’s turf wars, according to a study by Yale scientists.Scientists had believed that, at the population level at least, the body size of individuals made no difference in...
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro came to Yale School of Medicine today to get a first-hand look at how proposed federal budget cuts would impact the extensive, cutting-edge and life-saving scientific research going on at Yale — and, by extension, at academic...
Genre-defying American poet and critic Susan Howe has been named the 2011 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.Announcing the poet’s selection for the Bollingen Prize, the judges wrote, “In more than three decades of writing,...
Regency painter Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), one of the most lauded and imitated portraitists in Europe and a chronicler of fashionable London society, will be the focus of a retrospective exhibition through June 5 at the Yale Center for British Art — the...
Blue Penguins are one of the smallest of all penguins and are primarily found on the shorelines of New Zealand and Australia. Now, Yale University researchers and colleagues at the University of Akron have found that they utilize a novel method to express...
General Stanley McChrystal launched his “Conversations on Leadership” series on Feb. 16. The featured guest was best-selling author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson.Mortenson is author of the bestseller “Three Cups of Tea” (with David Oliver Relin of The...
The Office of the Provost, the Department of History, the Yale University Library and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will hold a memorial service for Frank M. Turner on Saturday, March 26, at 11 a.m. in Battell Chapel, College and Elm...
Washington, D.C. suffers from the most devastating HIV epidemic in the United States, with 3 percent of the general population and 6 percent of prison inmates being infected. Now, researchers from Yale, along with colleagues from George Mason and Howard...
Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in a White House ceremony on March 2. (See Q & A with Roberto González Echevarría.)The Yale...
Before traveling to Washington, D.C., to attend a gala dinner and to accept his National Humanities Medal in a White House ceremony, Professor Roberto González Echevarría took the time to converse with the Yale Daily Bulletin about his newest honor, his...
