Elisha Atkins, M.D., professor emeritus of internal medicine/infectious diseases at Yale School of Medicine, and an expert in the mechanism and biological importance of fever, died April 22 at age 84 in Belmont, Massachusetts. Atkins’s research on the...
The authors of a report criticizing the environmental movement for failed leadership on global warming will discuss “Post–Environmentalism: Beyond ‘I Have a Nightmare’ Politics” on Friday, May 6, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium at the Yale School of...
Researchers at Yale, in collaboration with NIH researchers, have identified a specific protein molecule that is used by the immune system for detection of parasitic infections, leading the way for development of future vaccines to combat these infections...
A First Day of Issue ceremony for a series of stamps honoring four American Scientists will be hosted by the U.S. Postal Service at Yale University’s Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. on May 4. The scientists commemorated are thermodynamicist...
Yale University, on Earth Day 2005, released a report on its environmental performance from 1996 through June 30, 2004. Such a multi–year environmental performance report has never, to Yale’s knowledge, been developed and distributed by any university....
Using X–ray crystallography, researchers at Yale have “seen” the structural basis for antibiotic resistance to common pathogenic bacteria, facilitating design of a new class of antibiotic drugs, according to an article in Cell. In recent years, common...
Alvin Novick, 79, physician, biologist, Yale University professor, and AIDS community leader, died on April 10, 2005 in New Haven. He had prostate cancer. Alvin Novick. (Photo by John Curtis.)(Full Size Image) Professor Novick taught biology at...
The National Academies Keck FUTURES initiative has announced that Yale Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering David LaVan and Andrew Ellington of the University of Texas at Austin are recipients of a FUTURES grant in the amount of $75,000 to...
Yale School of Medicine’s Pediatric Asthma Care Team will provide asthma screenings for the community at Dave McDermott Auto Group, 55 Main St., East Haven on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. In honor of World Asthma Day (May 3), physicians and...
A possible link between lack of sleep (insomnia) and obesity has been traced to hypocretin/orexin cells in the hypothalamus region of the brain that are easily excited and sensitive to stress, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the April issue...