The cutting-edge genomic and proteomic technologies available through the Keck Biotechnology Resource Laboratory and their positive impact on research at Yale University will be the focus of the next two Dean’s Workshops at the School of Medicine. The...
Dr. Daniel Rowe, a founder of the Yale Health Plan — the first pre-paid university health maintenance organization (HMO) in the United States — and its director for two decades, died on July 8. He was 83 years old.Rowe was professor emeritus of pediatrics...
J. Murdoch Ritchie, the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, died on July 10 after a long illness.Ritchie, who formerly served as chair of the Department of Pharmacology, made major contributions toward an understanding of the conduction...
Marc G. Pypaert, director of Yale’s Electron Microscopy Core Facility and a research scientist in cell biology, died of brain cancer on July 28 at Connecticut Hospice. He was 45 years old.As part of the Center for Cell and Molecular Imaging, the Electron...
William E. Odom, a senior military and intelligence official in the Carter and Reagan administrations who served for many years as adjunct professor of political science at Yale, died of a heart attack on May 30 at his vacation home in Lincoln, Vermont....
Wendell R. Garner, the James Rowland Angell Professor Emeritus of Psychology, died on Aug. 14. He was 87 years old.Garner is known for his research contributions on the psychophysics of auditory perception and his explorations of how perceptual judgments...
There will be a memorial service on Saturday, Sept. 13, for G.K. Hunter, the Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus of English, who died on April 10 at age 88.The service will take place at 2 p.m. in the common room of Davenport College, 248 York St.A native of...
The Yale Library is in the process of designing a new and reconceived social science library which — in addition to collections — will include classrooms, an information commons with full suites of digital services, social and study spaces, and a café.The...
In a fan-cooled classroom on the Yale campus on a sweltering July morning, David Johnson is so on fire that he can barely stop raising his hand. Johnson, a rising sixth grader at the Beecher Museum School of Arts and Sciences in New Haven, has just...
Award-winning author Richard Fortey will give a talk and sign copies of his book while on campus on Thursday, Sept. 11.Fortey’s talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave. The talk is open to the public free of...