Although people age 65 and older account for 62 percent of patients with lung, colon, breast or prostate cancer, they make up only 32 percent of cancer research participants, Yale researchers report in the June 9 Journal of the American Medical...
The Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) has announced an Idea Development Award to Dr. Hui Zhang, associate professor of genetics at Yale University School of Medicine, for study of a mouse model of prostate cancer progression....
Sara Rockwell, professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Pharmacology, and director of the Office of Scientific Affairs at Yale University School of Medicine, was honored by the Department of Radiation Oncology and Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Medical...
Pediatric metabolic syndrome, which is a group of risk factors in one person including obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension and other metabolic abnormalities, is present in nearly half of all severely obese children and adolescents and increases...
Nita Maihle, professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, has been elected chairperson of Women in Cancer Research Council of the American Association for Cancer Research. As chairperson, Maihle will lead the...
Members of the press are invited to attend a reception on Saturday, June 26, 4-6 p.m. for the New Haven Oral History Project (NHOHP) exhibition at the New Haven Colony Historical Society, 114 Whitney Avenue. The exhibition highlights NHOHP interviews...
Designing a family-friendly home opposite a county prison and yards from a corner muffler shop was only part of the challenge facing students at Yale School of Architecture this year in their annual First Year Building Project. Added to the difficulties...
A documentary produced by Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and edited by Yale archivist Joanne Rudof had a premiere screening in Czestochowa, Poland, as part of a ground-breaking exhibition. In the film, seven...
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale has acquired the papers of the Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1987 and the 1991-92 Poet Laureate of the United States. The archive includes...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Professor David W. Blight, a preeminent scholar of the history and legacy of the American Civil War, as director of the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance...