William Schmidt
William Schmidt
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Plagiarism still a problem for College
Although Academic Integrity Awareness Week comes to a close today, the issue of plagiarism and cheating at Yale is not likely to go away. Some administrators said looking at their peer institutions’ methods for dealing with plagiarism, which often center on honor codes, could be helpful in refining Yale’s system. But overall, University officials and professors disagree about the extent to which Yale should rethink its current treatment of academic honor.
Despite prohibition, Eli file-sharing persists
Despite the University’s official policy against file-sharing, Yalies frustrated about missing their favorite TV shows are willing to take their chances.
Researchers report a lower stellar birth rate
For astrophysicists, learning that most star formation occurred when large galaxies were in their infancy would be akin to biologists discovering elephant remains in fossils next to the dinosaurs. But this is precisely what a team of about 25 astronomers, primarily at Yale, the Netherlands’ Leiden University and the University of Chile, discovered.
Forestry reaches out to business
Taking its curriculum off Science Hill, the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies is hitting the corporate world.
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As part of its efforts to reach out to the community, the Yale-New Haven Hospital Cancer Center has begun hosting a weekly radio broadcast called "Healthline" designed to provide the public with up-to-date cancer information. The program focuses on a...
Fetus sex, maternal asthma linked
A recent study published by the Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology in the current issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology indicates that for future mothers with asthma, the severity of their condition may be...
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Susan Busch, a health economist and professor in the Yale School of Public Health, delivered the latest lecture in the Edward Zigler Social Policy Lecture Series Friday on private insurance policies for the coverage of mental illness. Busch's talk...
Study probes bipolar disorder
Yale School of Medicine researchers are closer to figuring out the mechanisms working behind bipolar disorder, a condition that affects more than 2 million Americans, according to figures from the National Institute of Mental Health. Preliminary...
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A new lecture series this semester will aim to educate both its fellows and the general public about childhood development social policy in the United States, program directors said. Yale's Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy...
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The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale hosted the first lecture Tuesday of "The Way We Work with Life: Issues in Biotechnology," a new course consisting of 37 lectures that include prominent scientists in a variety of biotech fields.