Yale University’s biodiesel shuttle buses and vans are a familiar sight on the streets of New Haven, transporting some 3,500 to 5,000 faculty members, staff, and students around campus daily. Soon, these environmentally friendly vehicles will sport new,...
On Saturday, October 16, the Greater New Haven community is invited to join the physicians, staff, students and alumni of Yale School of Medicine (YSM) for festivities marking YSM’s 200th birthday.“Community Day” will take place from noon to 4pm on Cedar...
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale has received a $256,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the impact of food packaging changes on food purchases and access to healthy foods. This is part of a larger $1.5 million...
Andrew Phillips knows how to make molecules. During the nine years he spent at the University of Colorado at Boulder, his lab synthesized a total of 25 complex molecules, many of which have biologically useful properties.Now, as a new professor of...
With the sounds of bagpipes in the background, President Richard C. Levin and officials from Yale and the city came together for a ribbon cutting ceremony on Oct. 4, marking the official opening of the newly constructed Yale Health Center at 55 Lock St....
Carlo Petrini, founder and president of Slow Food, an international movement dedicated to restoring healthy practices of food production and consumption to modern life, will present a talk titled “Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable...
New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. met with Yale College students Tuesday evening to listen to their accounts of the compliance check conducted by city police officers and other officials early Saturday morning at a downtown nightclub that had been rented...
A team led by Yale School of Medicine professor Frederick L. Altice, M.D., has received a five year, $4.2 million grant from the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to study ways of curbing the HIV epidemic in states of the former Soviet Union –...
While statistics suggest that the rapid growth of nations like Brazil, China and India will make them the most powerful economic forces of the future, it is women who will drive the economic agenda for the 21st century, contends Muhtar Kent, chair and CEO...
Dr. Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, who has long been a proponent of taxes on soda and other sugared beverages, is available to speak to press and media about New York City’s effort to prevent food stamps...