Gareth Evans, Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND), will present a lecture titled “Eliminating Nuclear Threats” on April 27 at 1:00 p.m.The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take...
Carlos Fuentes, one of the most renowned literary and political figures in the Spanish-speaking world, will present a lecture at Yale on Monday, April 26, as a guest of the Chubb Fellowship.His talk, titled “The Birth of Latin American Culture,” will take...
Yale University engineers have found that the defects in carbon nanotubes—cylindrical carbon molecules with novel properties that are useful in a number of applications, including nanotechnology and optics—cause T cell antigens to cluster in the blood and...
Two Yale seniors, Amy Watson and Joshua Silverstein, and 2007 Yale graduate Aaron Kachuck are among 37 students from the United States who have received Gates Scholarships to pursue postgraduate work at the University of Cambridge next fall.Out of a pool...
The molecular caps at the ends of chromosomes that protect humans against cancer and premature cellular aging show a surprising inability to protect themselves against ultraviolet radiation, a new Yale School of Medicine study has found.Telomeres—the...
Most patients and research subjects believe that the financial ties their clinicians and researchers have with private companies should be disclosed, according to findings published in Archives of Internal Medicine by researchers at Yale School of...
Yale University announces the selection of 15 Yale World Fellows for 2010. The Yale World Fellows Program is the University’s signature global leadership development initiative and a core element of Yale’s ongoing commitment to internationalization. Each...
Yale Divinity School (YDS) will host a conference May 6–7 titled “Money and Morals after the Crash,” addressing some of the critical ethical questions people face as the recession brings economic issues front and center.The conference coincides with...
Scientists for the first time have discovered a way to predict whether women with the most common form of non-invasive breast cancer — ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)— are at risk of developing more invasive tumors in later life. The study appears online...
Yale feminist magazine gets $400 development grant Campus Progress, the non-profit youth outreach arm of the Center for American Progress, has awarded a $400 grant to “Broad Recognition,” a feminist student magazine. The funds will go toward Web...