Shashi Tharoor, chairman of Dubai-based international investments company Afras Ventures and former under-secretary-general of the United Nations, will be the speaker at the 16th Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on March 4.His talk is titled “India...
In an unprecedented investment in astronomy at Yale, the university has entered into a new partnership with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that will give it access to one of the world’ premier observatories. Yale will invest $12 million...
The first of a series of health fairs organized and run by graduate students at Yale School of Medicine, the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale School of Nursing will be held in New Haven on February 28, targeting underserved neighborhoods with...
Younger people with strong negative stereotypes about the elderly are more likely to experience strokes, heart attacks and other heart problems when they grow old, a researcher at the Yale School of Public Health has found. It is the first study that...
Yale Divinity School is expanding its international student exchange program, establishing ties to two theological schools in Asia to complement ongoing programs in Germany and England.In an open letter to students, Yale Divinity School Dean Harold...
Yale researchers have filled in a missing gap on the molecular road map of Alzheimer’s disease. In the Feb. 26 issue of the journal Nature, the Yale team reports that cellular prion proteins trigger the process by which amyloid-beta peptides block brain...
Before flying off the handle the next time someone cuts you off in traffic, consider the latest research from Yale School of Medicine researchers that links changes brought on by anger or other strong emotions to future arrhythmias and sudden cardiac...
When it comes to getting to work, it’s arriving on time, not the journey itself, that usually matters most to employees, but Holly Parker, director of Yale’s Transportation Options program, is working to get the University’s carbon-consuming commuters to...
Global climate rapidly shifted from a relatively ice-free world to one with massive ice sheets on Antarctica about 34 million years ago. What happened? What changed? A team of scientists led by Yale geologists offers a new perspective on the nature of...
After an extensive national search, Thomas J. Lynch, Jr., MD, has been named director of Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the new Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, which will open in October 2009. His appointment is effective April 1,...