Despite growing evidence that developmental issues impact student learning, developmental sciences—which include the science of child and adolescent development and neuroscience—are given short shrift in educator preparation and school reform, according...
A ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially mark the opening of the state-of-the-art Yale Health Center will take place October 4 at 11 a.m. at 55 Lock St. Coffee and refreshments will be served at 10 a.m. and tours of the new facility will follow the ribbon-...
The physicians and staff of Yale Cancer Center will be holding two events during the first week of October, to launch “National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.” Press and media, as well as members of the public, are invited to attend. Every October, major...
Two major Yale research projects are among twenty that have been awarded funding through the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Transformative Research Projects (T-R01) program. According to NIH, the T-R01 program “encourages...
On Saturday, October 16, the Greater New Haven community is invited to join the physicians, staff, students and alumni of Yale School of Medicine (YSM) for festivities marking YSM’s 200th birthday.“Community Day” will take place from noon to 4pm on Cedar...
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale has received a $256,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the impact of food packaging changes on food purchases and access to healthy foods. This is part of a larger $1.5 million...
A team led by Yale School of Medicine professor Frederick L. Altice, M.D., has received a five year, $4.2 million grant from the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to study ways of curbing the HIV epidemic in states of the former Soviet Union –...
Dr. Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, who has long been a proponent of taxes on soda and other sugared beverages, is available to speak to press and media about New York City’s effort to prevent food stamps...
The National Institutes of Health has established a Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Center at Yale with a four-year, $3.6 million grant. The center, one of three funded nationally, will help expand work to improve the care and outcomes of cardiovascular...
A team of Yale University scientists has engineered the cell wall of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, tricking it into incorporating foreign small molecules and embedding them within the cell wall.The finding, described online in the journal ACS...