Does evolution explain human nature? Three experts explored this question on Sept. 24 during a panel discussion sponsored by Yale University, Discover Magazine and the John Templeton Foundation. A video of the discussion, moderated by Corey S. Powell,...
Climate change doesn’t just pose a scientific challenge; it also creates an ethical obligation for those of us in the developed world, according to Rajendra Pachauri, who gave the inaugural talk in the Yale Climate and Energy Institute’s (YCEI) weekly...
“Each year the houses get better and better, and I mean that in all sincerity,” said Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern, at the dedication of the 2009 house designed and built by the school’s first-year students in the Hill neighborhood of...
In a new study, Yale University researchers document a disturbing lack of consistency among U.S. hospitals in how quickly they treat patients in emergency rooms. Furthermore, some hospitals were least able to provide timely care to the sickest patients....
Most stroke patients arrive at the hospital too late to take advantage of a clot-busting drug that significantly reduces stroke symptoms and lessens the chance of permanent disability, according to researchers at the Yale School of Public Health. Their...
Under the patronage of His Excellency Mr. Ziad Baroud, the Lebanese Minister of Interior and Municipalities, the Yale Arab Alumni Association will stage the largest Yale alumni event ever to take place in the Arab Middle East, an international conference...
Pritzker-Prize laureate and Yale School of Architecture alumnus Norman Foster and his family have donated $3 million to Yale School of Architecture to fund a visiting professorship in his name, Yale University President Richard C. Levin has announced.“...
An exhibition of memorabilia, posters, manuscripts, prints, books and manifestos at Yale’s Beinecke Library, through December 19, chronicles the spirit of revolution that enthralled France from the end of the German occupation to the turbulent “events of...
Yale College senior Jocelyn Traina is studying a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. She needs to know physics to understand the lasers that she uses, biology to purify the protein for experiments, chemistry to test how it reacts in those...
Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, is one of three winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work describing the structure and function of the ribosome,...