When nurse Denise Walsh arrived at Redemption Hospital in Liberia, Africa, which is now just emerging from years of civil war, the basic systems that help hospitals run smoothly and effectively were nowhere to be found. Most beds were empty - except in...
Within human cells, tiny membrane-bound compartments called vesicles shepherd biomolecules from place to place. How these vesicles form, move and finally fuse to deliver cargo at a particular destination largely remains a mystery, now being investigated...
Yale University Chief of Police James A. Perrotti has named Lieutenant Ronnell Higgins as the university’s new assistant chief of police.In that post, Higgins will oversee and manage the divisions that make up the operations portion of the department,...
President Levin announces faculty appointmentsPresident Richard C. Levin recently announced several faculty appointments.Rolena Adorno, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, was reappointed as chair of the Department of Spanish and...
This fall, the Divinity School and the School of Management are jointly sponsoring a seminar titled “Faith and Globalization” that will be taught by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Yale Professor Miroslav Volf. The seminar will meet on...
A gift from a Yale alumnus will support research by Yale and Israeli scholars on homeland security and counterterrorism.The gift from Daniel Rose, chair of Rose Associates Inc., and a 1951 graduate of Yale College, will fund a three-year partnership...
Successfully confronting today’s environmental and social challenges requires a re-examination of the values and worldviews that shape our perceptions of nature and society, according to a new Yale report, “Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain...
William R. Bennett Jr., the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science and Physics, who in 1960 co-invented the first gas (helium-neon) laser, died of esophageal cancer on June 29 at his home in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He was...
Rulon S. Wells III, professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy, died on May 3 in Salt Lake City at the age of 90.Wells taught at the institution for over 44 years, offering courses in logic, philosophy of language and symbolism, history of...