A concert to raise money for malaria relief will be held at Woolsey Hall on Saturday, December 13 from 8 to 10 pm. Performers include St Luke’s Chorus and members of the Yale Alumni Chorus. Called the “Tony Blair Faith Foundation Malaria Relief Concert,”...
By the time they complete his mechanical engineering class, Professor John Morrell’s students will have designed and built a hybrid car or a model airplane and entered them in national competitions.During the semester, the Yale undergraduates in his class...
“Teaching is about joining students in learning to deal not only with the material but also with their lives” — so says Ansgar Mohnkern, one of nine Yale doctoral students who were awarded this year’s Prize Teaching Fellowships (PTFs).Considering what...
The link between food marketing and the growing childhood obesity epidemic is the focus of a $6.4 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University.Principal investigators, Rudd Center...
Stress is an uninvited guest that often mars the holiday season and is a regular companion of national recessions. But stress is more than a simple nuisance. At Yale, researchers are discovering how stress is linked to depression, addiction and even...
Yale University Professor of History Stuart B. Schwartz has won the first annual Cundill International Prize in History, awarded by McGill University, for his book “All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World” (Yale...
Rather than infer that nanotechnology is safe, members of the public who learn about this novel science tend to become sharply polarized along cultural lines, according to a study conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School in...
Sobering childhood obesity rates in New Haven hit home for Yale baseball star Joshua Cox, who helped organize the first annual Yale Athletic Health Fair and Community Dinner, which takes place on Saturday, December 6. The free event, which aims to educate...
Rolena Adorno, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, has won the Modern Language Association of America’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, awarded annually for an outstanding...
Pregnancy and surgery patients with a serious blood disorder that causes excessive clotting have responded well to treatment with a man-made anti-clotting protein. Results from a study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and other institutions were...