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Yale News
April 4, 2018
The ways in which virtual reality technologies help us understand poetry and technological explorations into what music reveals about the brain are just two of the topics that will be explored at the third annual Beyond Boundaries symposium, which will showcase the work of Yale undergraduates, graduateÃâà...
Yale News
April 3, 2018
Students in “Introduction to Engineering Innovation & Design” course spend half a semester putting their new engineering skills to work for other members of the Yale community. This team partnered with the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) to study the effects of gravity over time onÃâà...
Yale News
April 2, 2018
A reconstruction of Saniwa ensidens with a monitor lizard head. The third and fourth eyes This image shows a reconstruction of Saniwa ensidens with a monitor lizard head. The third and fourth eyes are located on the top of the head. (Senckenberg/Andreas Lachmann). Researchers have found an ancientÃâà...
Yale News
April 2, 2018
David Litt, a former White House speechwriter and bestselling author, will speak at Yale on Thursday, April 5 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. Litt's talk, co-sponsored by the Traphagen Alumni Speakers Series of the Yale College Office of Student Affairs, will take place at 6 p.m. in the Branford CollegeÃâà...
Voice of America
April 2, 2018
The search for one of life's greatest goals, happiness, is what brings almost 1,200 students to one of Yale University's most popular classes ever. The class is called "Psychology and the Good Life." Psychology professor Laurie Santos teaches the class. One in four Yale undergraduate students hasÃâà...
Bloomberg BNA
April 2, 2018
Judge Alvin W. Thompson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut wrote the decision. Schlichter Bogard & Denton LLP and Cohen & Wolf PC represent the university workers. Mayer Brown LLP represents Yale. The case is Vellali v. Yale Univ., D. Conn., No. 3:16-cv-01345-AWT, order partlyÃâà...
Yale News
April 1, 2018
Yale has joined 30 other universities and colleges in filing an amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief in a case before the United States Supreme Court that addresses the legality of an order issued by the Trump administration. The brief was filed by the schools in support of a challenge by the State of Hawaii toÃâà...
Yale News
March 28, 2018
In individuals with lupus, immune cells attack the body's own tissue and organs as if they are enemy invaders. A new Yale-led study describes how a protein found in common bacteria triggers that auto-immune response. The finding opens the door to future therapies targeting the bacteria rather than theÃâà...
Yale News
March 24, 2018
Using solar energy and nanoparticles to make saltwater drinkable, researchers from Yale and Rice University have developed a system that could potentially be used off-grid in remote areas or in domestic settings. The system, known as nanophotonics-enabled solar membrane distillation (NESMD),Ãâà...
Yale News
March 24, 2018
An artist's rendering of the prehistoric lizard Colobops noviportensis An artist's rendering of Colobops noviportensis, a new species of reptile from prehistoric Connecticut. (Michael Hanson). Scientists have identified a new species of reptile from prehistoric Connecticut and, boy, does it have a mouth on it.
Yale News
March 24, 2018
The humanitarian trips that students in Professor Jaehong Kim's course “Environmental Technology in the Developing World” take each spring break have become an established tradition at Yale. For the most recent trip, there were a few new twists. After a few years of traveling to Nicaragua, the courseÃâà...
Yale News
March 22, 2018
These courses add further depth to an array of environmental and health law course offerings already in place thanks to a strong partnership with Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the Law School's Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, the Community & EconomicÃâà...
Yale School of Management
March 22, 2018
Students from across the Global Network for Advanced Management traveled to New Haven to participate in Global Network Week at Yale SOM from March 12 to 16. Among the highlights of the week was a visit to the financial services company Synchrony in Stamford, Connecticut. Students participating inÃâà...
Yale News
March 22, 2018
Ronald Coifman posing with a computer. Coifman with his wavelet packets, one of his contributions to computer science that won him the National Medal of Science in 1999. Yale mathematician and computer scientist Ronald Coifman has won the 2018 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics, one of the highestÃâà...
Yale News
March 22, 2018
The social fabrics of their neighborhoods, including friendships and ideas about masculinity, have a powerful impact on marijuana use among young minority men, a new Yale School of Public Health study finds. The research led by Tamara Taggart, Ph.D., MPH, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale's Center forÃâà...
Yale News
March 22, 2018
One-third of young adults aged 19 and 20 report riding in a motor vehicle with an impaired driver at the wheel at least once in the past year, according to a new study co-authored by Yale researcher Federico Vaca, M.D., M.P.H, and his colleagues at the National Institutes of Health, and led by ColoradoÃâà...
Yale News
March 21, 2018
The U.S. healthcare system is responsible for significant portions of the nation's pollution emissions, indirectly harming the very patients it seeks to serve. However, these health damages are currently unreported and largely unrecognized. A first-of-its-kind workshop on environmental sustainability in clinicalÃâà...
Yale News
March 21, 2018
Continuing with his interest in the number four (referencing Group IV in semiconductor physics, which includes carbon and silicon), the Rothberg Catalyzer Prize is happening at four universities — Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, and Yale University. He's lettingÃâà...
Yale News
March 12, 2018
Psychopaths exhibit callous disregard for the welfare of others, suggesting an inability to understand the perspective of people around them. Yet they can also be extremely charming and manipulative, seemingly indicating an awareness of the thoughts of others. This paradox has perplexed researchers,Ãâà...
Yale News
March 10, 2018
Bottom portion of a page from Clumber Park Chartier, with poetry. A detailed portion of the Clumber Park Chartier manuscript, now available online and at the Beinecke Library for research. The Beinecke Library recently acquired the Clumber Park Chartier, considered the finest illustrated manuscript ofÃâà...
TIME
March 10, 2018
But the Yale University case shed light on what happens when such complaints are handled in a court of law, as they rarely are. The trial ended Wednesday when a jury found 25-year-old Saifullah Khan not guilty. Khan was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow Yale student after a Halloween party inÃâà...
Yale News
March 9, 2018
Bacteria found in the small intestines of mice and humans can travel to other organs and trigger an autoimmune response, according to a new Yale study. The researchers also found that the autoimmune reaction can be suppressed with an antibiotic or vaccine designed to target the bacteria, they said.
Yale News
February 28, 2018
People with stage III colon cancer who regularly eat nuts are at significantly lower risk of cancer recurrence and mortality than those who don't, according to a new, large study led by researchers at Yale Cancer Center. The findings were published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The studyÃâà...
Yale News
February 27, 2018
Our brains are bombarded with information about events around us, but we only become conscious of a few of them. Yale researchers have captured what happens in the split second before the emergence of consciousness, a fundamental state of human life. “There is a very tight window of a fewÃâà...
Yale News
February 22, 2018
Chinese mothers who were exposed to a high level of certain air pollutants during pregnancy had a higher risk of abnormal fetal growth, according to a new Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) study. The findings, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, were based on data collected fromÃâà...
Yale News
February 21, 2018
Yale researchers have developed a set of synthetic molecules that may help boost the strength of a key, virus-fighting protein. The protein, RIG-I, is an important sensor in the immune system of humans and other animals. It recognizes and responds to viral RNA by surrounding it, latching onto it, andÃâà...
The Intercept
February 20, 2018
A coalition of activists uncovered late last year that Yale University's $27.2 billion endowment had a direct investment in Puerto Rican debt instruments through a Cayman Islands-registered shell corporation. It is believed to be the first documented proof of a university endowment holding Puerto RicanÃâà...
Yale News
December 31, 1999
For millennia, people have used molten sand and other ingredients to create a vast array of traditional glass products, including beads, vessels, lenses and windows. Today, we also have metallic glasses – materials with the strength of metal, but with the pliability of plastic – that are being developed for aÃâà...
Yale News
December 31, 1999
Speaking at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 15, Yale University President Peter Salovey announced an expanded opportunity for emerging leaders in Africa to pursue an MBA education at Yale. The Yale School of Management will dedicate two scholarships in its full-time MBA programÃâà...
Yale News
December 31, 1999
A Yale-led research team developed a new RNA therapy, delivered through the nose, to treat mice infected with West Nile Virus. The innovative approach reduced the virus in the brain, allowing the immune system to destroy the virus and develop long-term protection against West Nile Virus disease, theÃâà...
Yale News
December 31, 1999
Older women residing in the U.S territories are less likely to receive recommended or timely care for breast cancer compared with similar women residing in the continental United States, according to Yale researchers. Their findings were published in the March issue of Health Affairs. Using MedicareÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Stephanie Wiles, an expert in old masters drawings and a museum leader at Cornell University, will be the next director of the Yale University Art Gallery, the university announced on Wednesday. She will succeed Jock Reynolds, who has run the gallery since 1998 but announced last year that he wouldÃâà...
Yale News
December 31, 1999
The galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The ghostly galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 is so diffuse it is possible to clearly see distant galaxies behind it. The galaxy is missing most, if not all, of its dark matter. The image was taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the HubbleÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
December 31, 1999
He made the comment during a speech at Yale University on Tuesday. The Yale Daily News, which reported the comment, originally said it was meant as a jab at President Trump — and by implication Trump's children. The Yale paper later corrected its story to say that while “Bush did not directly refer toÃâà...
