Bonnie T. Fleming, the newly appointed Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, is noted for her research on neutrinos, the tiniest building blocks of all matter.Her experimental research program focuses on precision tracking experiments looking for...
For four decades now, members of the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa — both current students and alumni — have gathered at an annual banquet to pay tribute to their current and former teachers by presenting them with the DeVane Award, the University’s...
The Yale Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of a stage production of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s famed novel “Notes from Underground,” a passionate, obsessive and contradictory confession of a tormented soul.The new play, starring Obie Award-...
A talk on Friday, March 27, titled “Do Babies Matter in the Academy?” will be the next offering in the Women Faculty Forum’s lecture series “Breakthroughs and Barriers: Gender in Academia.”The series aims to open up a conversation on women’s advancement...
The controversial phenomenon described by some as “opting out” — the supposed trend of professional women leaving the workplace to devote their energies full time to family care-taking — will be explored at a conference taking place Friday-Saturday,...
The Lupus Research Institute has granted a three-year, $300,000 Novel Research Award to support the work on the disease being done by Tarek Fahmy, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Joseph Craft, professor of medicine and immunobiology and...
Jock Reynolds, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Yale University Art Gallery, today announced the creation of a new curatorial department devoted to Indo-Pacific art, enabled by the generosity of Yale alumnus Thomas Jaffe, Class of `71. Mr. Jaffe has provided...
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a research and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, has issued a report reaffirming the “Code of the Street” theory of urban violence developed by Yale professor Elijah Anderson.This validation...
Yale’s collaboration with other research centers will help determine the best way to treat diabetes in childrenThe University has been named co-chair of the Pediatric Diabetes Consortium (PDC), comprised of six leading clinical facilities. The PDC will be...
As anyone who has broken a bone knows, removing the cast can be one of the most stressful parts of the ordeal - especially for a child.Traditional oscillating saws are noisy, seem to take forever, and can get hot enough to potentially cause third-degree...