Yale researchers have, for the first time, identified two types of reading disability: a primarily inherent type with higher cognitive ability (poor readers who compensate for disability), and a more environmentally influenced type with lower cognitive...
President Richard C. Levin today named Dr. Dennis D. Spencer, the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery and Chair of Neurosurgery, as acting dean of the Yale School of Medicine. Spencer, who has an international reputation in the surgical...
Dr. Jeffrey P. Koplan will join the Yale Corporation as an Alumni Fellow for a six-year term beginning July 1, University President Richard C. Levin has announced. Koplan is vice president for Academic Health Affairs at Emory University and former...
Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation has created a $2 million endowment to help advance cutting-edge medical research at Yale School of Medicine. Through this new program, called the Bayer Endowment for Scholars in Medicine and Management, a fellowship...
A Yale researcher who studies the molecular biology of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which is linked to many cancers such as Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, has received a $2.1 million, five-year award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH...
If first-year students at Yale School of Architecture have it right, the open “loft style” floor plan – with kitchen and living areas flowing together – which has dominated home design for decades, may be on the way out. Yale’s famous First Year...
A painting by Bernard Chaet, the William Leffingwell Professor Emeritus of Painting at the Yale School of Art, has received the Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Prize from the National Academy of Art. The painting, titled “A.M.,” is featured in the Academy’s...
Yale Dean James Gustave Speth and leading environmental thinkers examine the social and environmental dimensions of globalization and the evolution of global environmental governance in “Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment.” Just released by...
Yale professor F. Herbert Bormann will receive the international environmental Blue Planet Prize from the Japanese Asahi Glass Foundation on Oct. 22 in Tokyo. The prestigious prize is awarded annually to two individuals or organizations that have made...
The base height of clouds that form over the Northeastern states has been rising for 30 years, and this could disrupt forests at the north end of the Appalachian Mountains, according to researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental...