Three leading activists for urban food reform in New York and New Haven will meet at Yale on January 28 in a public panel discussion on educating youngsters about the importance of good food and making affordable healthy food available to urban residents....
Multimedia journalist Farai Chideya will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Monday, February 1.Chideya’s talk, “Be the Media You Want to See: How Social Media and Citizen Journalism Are Changing the World,” will take place at...
A team of Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) physicians and medical professionals trained in disaster response left this morning for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. In addition to providing trauma and surgical expertise, the...
The acclaimed restoration by Polshek Partnership Architects of Louis I. Kahn’s building of Yale University’s Art Gallery has earned the New York firm a 2010 Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects.The three-year renovation of the 1953...
President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Edward A. Snyder as dean of the Yale School of Management (SOM), beginning July 1, 2011.Snyder is currently dean and the George Shultz Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth...
The diary of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl whose family hid from the Nazis in Holland for two harrowing years, fuels one man’s mission in “Compulsion,” the next play at the Yale Repertory Theatre.The world premiere of the play by Rinne Groff will be...
Eliminating cancer stem cells (CSCs) within a tumor could hold the key to successful treatments for ovarian cancer, which has been notoriously difficult to detect and treat, according to new findings published this week in the journal Oncogene by Yale...
Science exploration was the theme of the evening when area middle and high school students gathered at the Peabody Museum of Natural History on Jan. 16 for a special event sponsored by Yale Science Pathways, an outreach program that connects local youths...
Iceland leads the world in addressing pollution control and natural resource management challenges, according to the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) produced by a team of environmental experts at Yale University and Columbia University. This is...
Yale University researchers have found more than two dozen scent receptors in malaria-transmitting mosquitoes that detect compounds in human sweat, a finding that may help scientists to develop new ways to combat a disease that kills 1 million people...