Paul D. Cleary, the newly named Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, has devoted much of his career to understanding how to improve the quality of patient care.Cleary, who is the dean of the School of Public Health and director of the Center for...
Bertolt Brecht’s “MAN=MAN,” a play inspired by silent cinema, clown and song, is currently being staged by the School of Drama, through Saturday, Nov. 1.“MAN=MAN” tells the tale of a peaceable porter transformed by a gang of soldiers into a ruthless...
Dr. Lloyd G. Cantley, newly designated as the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine, is a noted nephrologist who focuses his research on the mechanisms of renal tubule formation and repair.By examining epithelial cell adhesion, migration and branching...
Dr. Bennett A. Shaywitz, the inaugural Charles and Helen Schwab Professor in Dyslexia and Learning Development, is chief of pediatric neurology, co-director of the newly established Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, and a noted leader in the...
Dr. Michael Simons, recently appointed the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine, is a leader in the role of angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels) in cardiovascular diseases.Simons joined the Yale faculty earlier this fall as the new section...
Portraits of English painters that once formed part of a collection of prints and drawings in the library of Horace Walpole will be featured in an exhibition at the Lewis Walpole Library.Titled “Portraits of Painters: Drawings by George Vertue and Horace...
Members of the Yale community are invited to share their thoughts and opinions about the 2008 election on a political blog that was started as part of an undergraduate English class.The blog, “Election 2008: Examining New Media for November,” was started...
A new exhibition at the Sterling Memorial Library pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist and South Africa’s first post-apartheid president, as he celebrates his 90th birthday this year.Titled “Long Road to Freedom,” the exhibition...
Scholars from the United States and China will gather on campus on Thursday, Nov. 6, for a one-day symposium on nutritional challenges facing China today, with an emphasis on South China.Titled “Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl: A Symposium on Public Health...
Members of the Yale Forests Program talked about sustainable forestry practices during a program held near Yale Myers Forest on Oct. 19. The day included a tour of Cranberry Hill Farm in Ashford, Connecticut, one of the nearby farms with which Yale has...