Main Street, Brazil 5,000 miles from Sao Paulo
Driving into Danbury, Conn., you can feel the magic. Somewhere between exits four and five on Interstate 84, dreary New England is transformed into the tropics. It may be the "Fala-sê Português" signs in the windows of the stores that line Main Street.
Sun shines on home built by students
Students at the Yale School of Architecture use hammers as well as T-squares in their daily education. In an effort to fulfill the building project requirement of their first year of study, graduate students completed construction of a home Thursday.
Environment Sch. report shows gains
Trend data reveals increase in diversity
Just as businesses across the nation compose detailed performance reports at the end of the fiscal year, the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies completed its own annual trends report, tabulating progress in fund raising, grant awards, faculty...
Researchers examine deformities in amphibian limbs
In 1995, a group of schoolchildren in the wetlands of rural Le Sueur, Minn., yelled out to their teacher. "This one has no legs on one side and a bunch on the other!" one student said, according to a PBS transcript chronicling the discovery of the...
Singing is about more than perfect pitch
Understanding perfect pitch may be difficult for those without the ability to instantaneously name a note upon first hearing it. Imagine a classroom full of children. All are colorblind, save one, and they all get palettes and paint. "Just imagine...
Astronomers space out, find 10th planet
Watch out Pluto, you've got some competition. University astronomers and physicists, in collaboration with the California Institute of Technology and the Gemini Observatory, have discovered what they claim is the 10th planet, taking Pluto's status as...
Cancer treatment enters trials
Researchers at the School of Medicine are combining their artillery specialized for liquid and solid cancers to target the disease when it appears in the lungs The latest research efforts, led by Dr. Lynn Wilson, a radiation oncologist specialist at...
How do the sciences stack up to the University's other departments?
As Group IV majors make the long trek up Science Hill, the nearly-completed Biomedical Engineering Building serves as a reminder that science at Yale is not neglected. The University is slowly ascending the national rankings for engineering, after...
FES talks focus on deforestation
This week, delegates from the World Wildlife Foundation of Indonesia were at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies to discuss the effects of illegal deforestation on the Indonesian community with leaders in the field, including professor of...
McCormick wins Javits Award
Neurobiology professor nets funding to study cerebral cortex function
Research on brain functions that humans never recognize has earned a School of Medicine professor significant attention. Neurobiology professor David McCormick was awarded the Senator Jacob Javits Award by the National Institute of Neurological...
Research finds chimp violence is organized
Chimpanzees and Al Capone have more in common than opposable thumbs. While a chimp would never be seen gunning down its foes against a brick wall, Yale's anthropology professor David Watts is delving into the arena of organized chimpanzee violence.
Science Saturdays bring research to life for kids
A side of Yale College Dean Peter Salovey usually hidden from Yalies came alive to New Haven's youth in Davies Auditorium Saturday morning in the first of five Science Saturdays, which feature science lectures for the general public. Parents sat with...
Biology professor leaves Yale for Duke
By Alberto Masliah Staff reporter Duke 2, Yale 0. But the Blue Devils' latest triumph is due to their unique lemur facility, not their jump shot. Professor Anne Yoder, a biologist who teaches "Evolution of Mammals," will arrive on Duke University's...
Margulis to receive the Wolf Prize
In "Good Will Hunting," the title character seemed able to outsmart the best of the best, even an MIT professor who won the Fields Medal -- "like the Nobel Prize of math" according to the 1997 hit film. But Will Hunting never came across mathematics...
Doctors volunteer aid to Thai kids
A group of 37 doctors, nurses and technicians, many from the Yale School of Medicine or Yale-New Haven Hospital, put a smile on the faces of about 150 children in rural Thailand last month. The team of anesthesiologists, plastic surgeons and their...
Binge eaters crave freedom from food
An old idiom says that the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach. But always succumbing to the stomach can take the heart to the brink of exhaustion. For Graham Boettcher '95 GRD '06, the result of his binge eating was an enlarged left...
Judge dismisses suit claiming bad practices at hospital
A class action lawsuit filed last September against Yale-New Haven Hospital and its affiliates for wrongfully charging uninsured and low-income patients was dismissed from Connecticut district federal court Tuesday in a bench ruling by Judge Stefan...
New Haven's energy efforts cited by DOE
The Elm City's energy conservation program has made the city greener both outside and inside of the bank. The United States Department of Energy has named New Haven a "success story" for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs that have been...
Newly-discovered SARS relative bears city's name
Finding will provide steps toward better treatment
Having something named after you is usually considered an honor. But New Haven residents probably will not be bragging about the newest thing named after their city -- a virus related to SARS. The New Haven coronavirus -- named after the site of its...
Yale's Great Awakening
Why are we seeing a Catholic religious revival?
Students come to the 10 p.m. mass at St. Thomas More Chapel dressed in jeans and skirts, polos and blazers, and squeeze in next to each other as close to the front of the chapel as possible. The stained glass windows in the chapel are illuminated by...
Center makes strides in Tourette's Syndrome study
The Yale Child Study Center continues to make strides in the study of Tourette's Syndrome -- the symptoms of which are consistently misconceived as a repetition of obscene verbal outbursts -- furthering Yale's more than 25-year investigation of the...
Speth will travel to Singapore to lecture
The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the National University of Singapore have a little more in common than a typical Yalie might think. Environment School Dean Gustave Speth has been named a Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Fellow for...
Donations to help construction of 'green' FES building
The $27 million environmentally sustainable facility on Prospect Street will house the Carl and Emily Knoblock Environment Center at Yale
The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies' $27 million capital campaign to build a new facility on Prospect Street received a $4 million boost over winter break. The latest contribution to the campaign for the school's expansion came from...
Study finds religion shapes views of terminal sedation
While the U.S. Supreme Court does not object to a medical practice that places a higher priority on alleviating pain than maintaining a patient's life, whether individual doctors do can vary by their religion, according to a recent study. Terminal...
Donaldson, Kiernan excel at nationals
Indiana's cloudy midwestern skies on the morning of Nov. 22 did not deter a pair of Yale runners, who both won All-American awards at this year's NCAA Division I Women's Cross Country Championships. Lindsay Donaldson '08 and Cara Kiernan '07...
'Dino-Snore' enlivens history for children
The Great Hall of the Peabody Museum of Natural History came alive the night of Nov. 13 with running children and tired parents from the greater New Haven area at the semiannual "Dino-Snore." Sleeping bags, air mattresses and tents surrounded the...
Muslim fast fights hunger
For three days this month, the Muslim Students Association invited fellow Yalies, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, to evening meals to both commemorate and combat the hunger felt by the homeless during the holy month of Ramadan. Today marks the conclusion...
Conference puts biosafety under the microscope
Yale hosted its first Connecticut BioScience Conference in Harkness Auditorium at the School of Medicine Tuesday afternoon, attracting a crowd of about 50 people. The conference was jointly sponsored by Yale and the University of Connecticut Health...
Torres plants new roots
To symbolize the roots of support within the colorectal cancer survivor community, nine-time Olympic swimming medalist Dara Torres partook in a tree-planting ceremony at the Yale School of Medicine on Thursday. Torres, whose father is a survivor of...
Science building nears completion
The School of Engineering's wait for its new addition is coming to a close. Funded by a $24 million gift from engineering graduate John Malone '63, the new facility at Prospect and Trumbull streets, which will focus on biomedical engineering, is...
Book lends perspective to rivalry -- 'The Only Game That Matters'
The result of a recent collaboration of a Connecticut College alumnus and a Boston University graduate has little to do with either of their schools. "The Only Game That Matters," by Bernard Corbett and Paul Simpson, follows the story behind the...
Scientists seek earlier Alzheimer's diagnoses
Backed by a $60 million national initiative, researchers at the Yale School of Medicine are making strides toward early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. As a member of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Yale researchers, together with...
Editor offers views on U.S. agenda in Iraq
Bill Emmott, the editor of The Economist, spoke on what he said was the nation's neo-conservative agenda for the Iraq war and said a new White House administration would not radically change the country's involvement in the Middle East at a talk in the...
Longer waits for medical care due to hospitals, not racism, study says
To a heart-attack victim, time can be the difference between life and death. While a recent study showed that minorities wait nearly nine minutes longer for treatment than white patients, the disparity is largely due to the quality of hospital at which...
Ma receives IEEE award for research
Work in gate dielectrics critical for transistors
Yale Electrical Engineering Department chairman Tso Ping Ma has been named the recipient of the 2005 Andrew S. Grove Award for his research and contributions to the field of gate dielectrics, which allowed for the development of cheaper and faster...
Web site uses game to predict election
The launch of a new student-run, Web-based game brings other students an opportunity to win money for correctly predicting the outcome of the upcoming presidential race. While the presidential election will feature two Yale graduates, the creators of...
Healing ceremony raises spirits and skepticism
Members of the Greater New Haven community gathered at Battell Chapel on Monday and Tuesday evenings to worship with Minister Paul Campo of Victory Chapel of Cape Cod, Mass. as he healed the sick. The event was organized by Pastor Kenneth Whelan, the...
Program unites fathers, children
Bryan Leach LAW '05 said when he wrote his dissertation at Oxford University Graduate School, he realized there was something wrong with today's society -- the lack of a father's presence in many families. A father's role, he said, is one of the most...
Tanenhaus expounds on Buckley '50, conservatism
William F. Buckley Jr. '50 arrived at Yale, fresh from a 22-month stint in World War II, to a campus hollowed by the war. Like Buckley, many students had defered their admission to fight, leaving organizations such as the Yale Daily News without...