For decades, biology textbooks have been clear – our traits are the product of our genes. But a new study by Yale University researchers published Dec. 26 in Nature Genetics suggests another mechanism can regulate variations of traits even in...
Two Yale professors have developed a website—GiveItBackforJobs.org—to encourage and facilitate Americans to donate the tax cuts just approved by Congress to charitable organizations that help those in need.Jacob Hacker, the Stanley Resor Professor of...
A pledge of $3 million will endow a joint senior faculty appointment between Yale Divinity School/Berkeley Divinity School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES) in honor of H. Boone Porter, a graduate of Yale College, Berkeley...
Ten guiding principles to strengthen global health strategies and outcomes have been created by a Yale School of Public Health professor and other experts.Health systems strengthening (HSS) is a broad-based approach that addresses underlying causes of...
Long before the knights of medieval Europe wielded flails or martial artists brandished nunchucks, it appears that a flightless prehistoric bird used its own wings as a similar type of weapon in combat.Paleontologists at Yale and the Smithsonian...
Yale Law School professor emeritus and librarian emeritus Morris L. Cohen, who directed some of the world’s most esteemed academic law libraries, passed away on Dec. 18 at his home in New Haven. He was 83.Cohen was a renowned figure among late 20th-...
Children who receive antibiotics within the first six months of life are at a significantly increased risk of developing asthma and allergies by 6 years of age, even without a genetic predisposition, new research by the Yale School of Public Health...
When Eric Sargis first saw a photograph of an unusual monkey that biologists discovered in 2005, he didn’t doubt that it represented a new species. But it wasn’t until one of the unusual monkeys had been trapped by a farmer in Tanzania that he was...
The New Haven Public Schools have been attracting increasing interest from parents who want to take advantage of the opportunities available for their children from the largest magnet school program in the state of Connecticut and from the growing...
Physicians from Yale University and other institutions assert that medical residents need far more rigorous training and medical schools need stronger infrastructure in order to adequately deal with the medical, behavioral, financial and social problems...
