Efforts to curb childhood obesity through school vending machine restrictions and making soft drinks more expensive with low levels of additional taxation have had a negligible effect, to date, on the waistline of America’s youth, a new study led by the...
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, whose novel “Things Fall Apart” is the most widely read book in African literature, will speak at Yale on April 14, as a guest of the Chubb Fellowship.Free and open to the public, his talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the...
Michael Boyle has wanted to be an astronaut ever since he attended space camp at the age of nine. This week, the Yale senior may get one step closer to that dream when he flies aboard a specialized Boeing 727, which makes parabolic dives that allow its...
On March 13, the Yale School of Medicine sent its second medical relief team to Haiti. The focus this time was less on emergency trauma such as crush injuries, and more on the long-term medical problems that continue to plague Haiti in the aftermath of...
Yale researchers have found that services to assist with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing and walking, are needed for all older persons at the end of life, regardless of the conditions leading to their deaths. The team also found that...
The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism is co-sponsoring talks by both national and international journalists this week. All are free and open to the public.David Shipley of The New York TimesDavid Shipley, deputy editor of the The New York Times Editorial...
Throughout the yearlong debate on health care reform, the physician’s voice has largely been unheard. But now doctors have an opportunity to shape how reform efforts will translate for patients and society, maintains Cary Gross, M.D., associate professor...
Alanna Schepartz knows that some of the most interesting science happening today is being done at the intersection of different disciplines.The Milton Harris ‘29 PhD Professor of Chemistry, who is also a professor in the Department of Molecular Cellular...
The democratization of Turkey will be the topic of a lecture at Yale by Turkish news anchor Banu Güven, who will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. Güven’s talk, “Turkey: A ‘One Of A Kind’ Democracy and its Challenges,” will take place at 4 p.m...
Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-CA) will present the Sybil Palmer Bellos Lecture on Monday, April 19 at 3:30 p.m. at Yale University School of Nursing (YSN), 100 Church Street South.Congresswoman Capps’s talk is titled “Nurses Make the Best Advocates.” She...