The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University will celebrate women in the arts in a series of events that includes exhibitions of photographs and archival material, film screenings, a concert, a reading and lecture by acclaimed...
This summer you can chat with the celebrated literary critic Harold Bloom in the comfort of your own home, thanks to AllLearn, the not-for-profit online education alliance of Yale, Stanford and Oxford universities. The two-hour live forum “Harold Bloom...
Integrating Puerto Rican history and culture into the classroom curriculum and teaching children to be more accepting of different cultures are among the topics to be covered in a summer program for teachers held at the Yale Center for International and...
Eye black grease, a combination of beeswax and pigment used by many athletes to combat sun glare, provides better contrast sensitivity than anti-glare stickers, Yale researchers have found. “Eye black grease appears to be more than just psychological...
The W.M. Keck Foundation, a leading supporter of high impact medical research, science and engineering, has named Kevin White, an assistant professor of genetics at Yale School of Medicine, one of five grant recipients under its Young Scholars in Medical...
A new study demonstrates a decades-long increase in the export of dissolved alkalinity from the Mississippi River – a process that removes the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – and also suggests that agricultural lands may sequester...
Robert M. Donaldson, Jr., M.D., the David Paige Smith Professor emeritus and former deputy dean at the Yale School of Medicine died at age 75 in West Falmouth, Mass. on July 8. Donaldson and Yale colleagues Kathleen Lundgren and Howard Spiro recently...
Yale researcher M. Marc Abreu, M.D., has identified an area of the brain he calls the brain temperature tunnel, which transmits brain temperature to an area of skin and has the potential to prevent death from heat stroke and hypothermia, and detect...
Yale researchers working with colleagues at Indiana University have added a giant electronic camera to a veteran telescope at Palomar observatory that will be used to look for distant galaxies, supernovae, asteroids and other objects in the sky. “We are...
The Yale University Science Collaborative Hands-On Learning and Research program – known as SCHOLAR – will hold a closing ceremony followed by a reception at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, July 25 at Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect Street. The program began on...