Even as adolescents struggle to lose weight through treatment programs, they often continue to experience weight-based discrimination — not just from their peers, but from adults they trust, including parents and teachers. The study by researchers at the...
Yale will pay tribute to alumnus composer and lyricist Cole Porter (B.A. 1913) on the centennial of his graduation from the University by presenting his popular musical “Kiss Me, Kate” in a concert version with an all-Yale cast and crew.Porter’s riff on...
David Blight is the winner of a 2012 Anisfield-Wolf book award for “American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.” The book is an intellectual history of Civil War memory, rooted in the work of Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson,...
Baran Sarac, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, received the 2012 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Best Poster Award for his work on “Designing Tensile Ductility in BMGs through Artificial...
Marc Brackett, research scientist in the Department of Psychology and deputy director of the Health, Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory, has been appointed to the newly launched research advisory board of the Born This Way Foundation, co-founded by pop star...
Seth B. Herzon, associate professor of chemistry, has received the 2012 Boehringer Ingelheim Creative Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award. The award was established to recognize the accomplishments of young faculty members working in the area of synthetic...
Farren Isaacs, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Systems Biology Institute at West Campus, was one of five scientists nationally to be named a Beckman Young Investigator for 2012.The designation by...
New research by Yale University scientists suggests an explanation for the amount of iron in the Earth’s largest interior layer, the mantle: migrating “iron-rich blobs” generated by chemical interactions in the zone between the planet’s core and mantle....
Yale chemist Dr. David A. Spiegel has been awarded $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Defense for new work expected to push the boundaries of breast cancer research.Dr. David A. SpiegelSpiegel, associate professor of chemistry and pharmacology,...