Stephanie E. Smallwood, associate professor of history at the University of Washington-Seattle, has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. The Frederick...
The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University will host a photo exhibit titled “Yuyanapaq: Para Recordar” (“To Remember,” in Quechua and Spanish, respectively) from October 15 to November 16 at the John Slade Ely House, 51 Trumbull...
Celebrated writer Ted Conover, known for going “undercover” to get firsthand experience about the topics he covers, will read from and discuss his works on October 23 at Yale University, as part of Yale College’s series of “Francis Conversations with...
The Connecticut State Department of Education recently released school wellness policy reports for all Connecticut school districts participating in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) child nutrition programs. The report cards provide an overall...
Astronomers studying new images of a nearby galaxy cluster have found evidence that high-speed collisions between large elliptical galaxies may prevent new stars from forming, according to a paper to be published in a November 2008 issue of The...
Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, will chair a new High Level Commission to explore ways in which the World Bank can operate more effectively, efficiently, dynamically and legitimately in a transformed global...
Researchers at Yale University have created a blueprint for artificial cells that are more powerful and efficient than the natural cells they mimic and could one day be used to power tiny medical implants. The scientists began with the question of whether...
Yale University researchers have described a molecular traffic signal in the middle of a busy biological highway that influences such diverse processes as the production of insulin, activation of the immune system, creation of new brain cells and...
Yale scientists have created nanowire sensors coupled with simple microprocessor electronics that are both sensitive and specific enough to be used for point-of-care (POC) disease detection, according to a report in Nano Letters. The sensors use...
Two Yale University scientists will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honor societies, at a ceremony this Saturday, Oct. 11 at the society’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Meg...