William Nordhaus, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics at Yale and former member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, will discuss “The Problem of Global Public Goods” on February 21 at 6 p.m. at the Yale Club of New York City. The...
Two new locally owned and operated food service establishments, representative of the reawakening of New Haven as a restaurant and entertainment center, will hold a joint grand opening on Monday, January 22 at 2 p.m. Whimsels and Koffee? Too are two...
The Yale Entrepreneurial Society will host “YES New York: The Yale Venture Summit,” on Thursday, February 8, from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m. at The Yale Club of New York City, 50 Vanderbilt Ave.The YES summit is an event that brings together members of the New...
Yale Psychology Professor Karen Wynn, who studies infants’ ability to recognize and reason about numbers, has been awarded the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The award, which includes $50,000 in research funding, is...
Researchers are one step closer to reversing brain and spinal cord injuries with the discovery of another molecule in a pathway that prevents axon regeneration, a Yale researcher says. Stephen Strittmatter, M.D., who holds the Vincent Coates Chair of...
The Enterprise Center, Inc., a non-profit entity funded by Yale University, The United Illuminating Company and New Haven Savings Bank, recently announced its first complete financing package for two start-up client companies. Funding was made possible...
The discovery in Mongolia of the fossil of a new bird, Apsaravis ukhaana, that lived about 80 million years ago, sheds new light on the evolution of birds. The nearly complete specimen of the small pigeon-sized bird was found at the locality Ukhaa...
Yale researchers have received a $1.2 million contract to assist the U.S. Department of Defense in evaluating and assessing information technology that the government is developing to improve quality in medical care. The Yale group is working within the...
A new Yale study may help to clarify whether hemorrhaging in a baby’s eyes is due to child abuse or simply a lingering effect of birth. The researchers found that retinal hemorrhaging caused by the pressure of moving through the birth canal cleared up...
When the brain is stimulated, functional imaging results are misinterpreted by neglecting the resting brain neurotransmitter activity, a study by a Yale researcher concludes. “There is an assumption made in the use of PET scans and functional magnetic...