WEST HAVEN — The last reported “crime” at Yale’s 136-acre West Campus occurred four to five years ago, said Thomas Paddock, one of the four head security officers who cover the area.

Though not expecting the skies to flare as they did on Nov. 13, 1833, meteor shower enthusiasts were prepared to face the cold and give up sleep for the post-midnight and pre-dawn spectacle that meteorologists predicted for Nov. 17, only to be obstructed by clouds.

Starting in December, Yale researchers will conduct one of the first ever studies exclusively about female soldiers.
Scientists will investigate whether female soldiers are more likely than males to have difficulty adjusting to civilian life after being in combat, School of Medicine professor and principal researcher Rani Desai said.

“Everything you might have ever learned in a philosophy class about medical ethics,” William Meadow whispered to a crowd of about 20 students, “[is] useless.”

Researchers from Yale’s Mechanical Engineering Department recently developed a technique to control the movement of immune system cells by taking advantage of how these cells track bacteria.

A new graduate-level evolutionary medicine course that will be open to juniors next semester is unique in its field, according to eight professors at Yale and other universities.

The swine flu vaccine is now available for high-risk students, YUHS Director Paul Genecin said in an e-mail to the News Friday.

Students from around the world gathered at the eighth annual Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) conference, held on Nov. 14 and 15 at the Yale School of Medicine, to discuss how to distribute medicines to poor countries. While students acknowledged that many institutions have become aware of medical access issues, there are still many political roadblocks.

Charles Darwin may be long dead, but his theories are alive and well in the swine flu epidemic.

At a time when many faculty searches have been delayed because of the recession, Yale is hiring more faculty members in the sciences than in the social sciences or the humanities, University administrators said.

A group of Yale alumni traveled to Brazil last week to plant trees in the Atlantic Rainforest and ask the government to provide better health care for Brazil’s minority communities.

While many tourists imagine the island of Hawaii as a tropical paradise, it soon may no longer be able to support residents’ current standards of living.

Yale University researchers have synthesized molecules that could help discover new methods of therapy for HIV and prostate cancer.

Researchers at the Yale-affiliated Haskins Laboratories have uncovered a link between motor learning and sensory perception, a discovery that could help to treat motor disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.

When Darra Goldstein proposed writing a dissertation on food and Russian literature, her doctoral advisers were “aghast.” Food, they said, had no place in academia.

The Yale Office of Cooperative Research and the law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati hosted a “Start-Up Boot Camp” for aspiring life science and technology entrepreneurs Tuesday afternoon at the Hope Memorial Building.

Yale researchers have discovered a strong link between genes and the likelihood that someone will suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The Yale School of Medicine is participating in a study by the National Institutes of Health to determine whether testosterone treatments for older men are effective at preventing age-related health problems.

When administered to pregnant women, the influenza vaccine can prevent flu-related infant hospitalization, research efforts led by Yale School of Medicine professor Marietta Vázquez ’90 showed in late October.

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