Yale faculty member J.D. McClatchy has received the 2010 Ambassador Book Award for Poetry from the English-Speaking Union of the United States for his book of poems “Mercury Dressing” (2009).The Ambassador Book Awards recognize important literary works...
As part of a multi-year preparation for a major renovation and expansion currently underway, the Yale University Art Gallery undertook a thorough review of its vast holding of paintings, sculpture and artifacts, only a small percentage of which have ever...
When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant as the dinosaur’s appearance. Over a few beers with fellow paleontologists one night, he blurted out the...
Most scientists have viewed electrical fields within the brain as the simple byproducts of neuronal activity. However, Yale scientists report in the July 15 issue of the journal Neuron that electrical fields can also influence the activity of brain cells....
A 17th-century painting portraying “The Education of the Virgin” in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery was recently identified as the work of Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, considered the greatest painter of the Spanish baroque period.The...
Yale believes the humane use of animals in research is more than justified by the benefits it yields to humankind. Virtually all medical advances of the last century would have been impossible without animal research. From antibiotics and blood...
While taking refuge in the shade of the upper New Haven Green on a sweltering afternoon recently, Maryann Welch accepted the gift of a sandwich, juice box and snack from recent Yale graduate Daniel Carvalho ‘10.“Thank goodness he is here,” says Welch of...
Three scholars, all women, joined the senior faculty at Yale Divinity School (YDS) effective July 1, completing what Dean Harold W. Attridge termed “a very successful year of recruiting.”“These new colleagues — Jennifer Herdt, Mary Moschella and Kathryn...
Addictive behaviors in women involving tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs and overeating will be the focus of a new five-year, $2.5 million faculty training grant awarded to Yale University researchers in the Department of Psychiatry.The grant, funded by the...
Two exhibitions — one focusing on fly fisherman, outdoorsman and Atlantic salmon conservationist Lee Wulff and the other highlighting recent additions to the collections — are currently on view at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.Fooling fish...
