There were water striders and turtles, deer and mice, bats and bugs. Throughout the week-long “Critters Camp” that took place at the West Campus Aug. 17-21, a group of 16 local schoolchildren learned about all these creatures and more, taking advantage of...
A video of the panel discussion on healthcare reform, featuring professor Jacob Hacker is now available. The discussion titled “Healthcare Reform: A Civil Discourse in a Turbulent Age,” covered the timely and critically important topic of overhauling the...
Award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on September 22.Brokaw’s lecture on the future of journalism will take place at 5 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall Street. The event is free and...
Forty years ago, doctoral student Joel Rosenbaum asked this question: How are cilia, the tiny thread-like appendages protruding from most cells, formed from molecules in the interior of cells?The answer to this basic biology question asked by Rosenbaum,...
To hear Professor Ramamurti Shankar discuss the subject he teaches, you might expect him to be describing magnificent works of art or timeless poetry: “Beautiful,” “elegant” and “awe-inspiring” are some of the most common adjectives. It’s not until he...
Yale’s endowment produced a negative 24.6% return in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, a period marked by a financial crisis during which global equity markets declined by nearly 30%.The endowment value fell to $16.3 billion based on investment losses...
As the “green”-conscious know, using less energy and biking and walking more are two ways to help fight climate change. But what if you could combine the two and actually use the energy created through exercise to produce a cleaner form of electricity?...
Three healthcare experts spent an hour and a half at a Yale School of Medicine panel on Sept. 16 striving to bring clarity to a national reform debate they all agreed has been obscure, frustrating and ultimately unenlightening.Yet the complexity of the...
Diarrhea-related diseases claim the lives of more than 1.5 million children each year, almost all in developing countries. Poor sanitary conditions, including contaminated water and food, are the major source of the bacteria and viruses that cause severe...
The Yale University Police Department will once again host its Citizen’s Police Academy beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 13.The program is designed to provide community members with an increased understanding and awareness of police operations and...