The movement of facial skin and muscles around the mouth plays an important role not only in the way the sounds of speech are made, but also in the way they are heard according to a study by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research...
Janet Browne, the Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, will speak at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., on February 4.Her talk, titled “Darwin and the Challenge of Biography,” will be the first in the 2009 series...
A talk by “NYPD Blue” and “Deadwood” creator David Milch and a performance of bachata and merengue music are among the weekly free and public events that will be offered in a new urban studies course at Yale.Yale art historian Sandy Isenstadt, who teaches...
Three billion years ago, a “new” amino acid was added to the alphabet of 20 that commonly make up proteins in organisms today. Now researchers at Yale and the University of Tokyo have demonstrated how this rare amino acid — and, by example, other amino...
His students are sitting in a Yale classroom in New Haven in the 21st century, but John Carlson wants to transport them back to England in the mid-1960s. He wants them to struggle alongside the scientists back then who were trying to identify the agent...
On a bright, cold day, standing before a sea of people that stretched to the horizon and witnessed by millions more watching on televisions around the world, Yale Professor Elizabeth Alexander stepped up to the microphone and presented a gift of words to...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified proteins associated with early onset neonatal sepsis (EONS), a stealthy bacterial infection linked to premature birth, illness and death. Using protein analysis, the researchers have found the biomarkers...
Chronic hypertension, diabetes and blood clots are more likely in otherwise healthy women who experienced complications due to hypertension such as preeclampsia in their first pregnancies, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers working in...
Yale University Professor Elizabeth Alexander will speak about her experience writing and presenting a poem at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, at a Master’s Tea on Thursday, January 29, at 4 p.m. in Ezra Stiles College, 19 Tower Parkway. The...
John Mackey, founder and CEO of the supermarket chain Whole Foods, will be making two public addresses at Yale on February 10.At 11:45 a.m., he will discuss “Conscious Capitalism” in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. At 4:30 p.m...