YALE popularity and YALE trends

One hundred years ago, a policeman at Yale received a very nice gift.

Chen Zhiwu, a professor of finance at Yale School of Management, said Wednesday that chances are slim for China's economy to make a hard landing.

This is a story about you: You will survive bullying. We have met individuals who, like you, feel lonely, ashamed, depressed, hated, and even ready to die. But they are still here, achieving their true potential and sharing their stories -- your stories -- in Yale College's "It Gets Better" video.

United States apologized to Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan after he was stopped for an hour and a half by homeland Security agents at the New York Airport. He was en route to deliver a lecture at the Yale University. No apology was made by the US after the Nato helicopters fired on a Pakistani border Salala check post on November 26, 2011, in which 24 soldiers were martyred and many injured....

A group of students from Yale University, Connecticut, have found a fungus in the Amazon rainforest that can break down the common plastic polyurethane.

Yale University Research suggests that women who talk too much in the office are seen as less competent than their quieter peers. But men who tale more are seen as better at their jobs.

El abanderado de Nueva Alianza suspenderá sus actos proselitistas el fin de semana para asistir a la Universidad de Yale y acompañar a su hijo Paulo

Los nuevos gestores de la petrolera argentina admiten que ya no pueden cotizar en la Bolsa de Nueva York

LAS VEGAS -- A new lawyer for O.J. Simpson filed a new attempt Tuesday to gain his release from Nevada state prison, alleging the former football star was so badly represented in his trial and previous lawyers that he deserves a new one.A 94-page document filed Tuesday in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas faults trial strategy and performance of attorneys Yale Galanter of Miami and Gabri...

Scientists at Yale University found that female cyclists may experience less pleasure during sex if the handlebars of their bike are lower than the seat.

The researchers at Yale University in the U.S. believe iomazenil, taken before drinking, might negate some of alcohol’s effects on the brain.

The average U.S. citizen is willing to pay 13 percent more for electricity in support of a national clean-energy standard (NCES), according to Yale and Harvard researchers in Nature Climate Change.

Gwinna at anthropologist.livejournal.com writes: "Contrary to myth, Christianity's concept of marriage has not been set in stone since the days of Christ, but has constantly evolved as a concept and ritual. Prof. John Boswell, the late Chairman of Yale University’s history department, discovered that in addition to heterosexual marriage ceremonies in ancient Christian church liturgical [...]

An anonymous reader writes "Not everyone can read legalese. Websites ought to have clearer, more transparent, and simpler privacy policies. One important step in this direction is a simple way of summarizing a privacy policy's features, to make it easy to see how a website will use and protect user data. Inspired by Creative Commons and the Mozilla Privacy Icon Project, we (a group of Yale unde...

The Yale Baroque Opera Project, which focuses on staged productions of operas featuring casts of undergraduates, presented Monteverdi’s “Ritorno d’Ulisse,” at the University Theater at Yale.

The pipes, sewers and basements that lie beneath the coastal city of New Haven, Conn., could be flooded by rising groundwater by the end of the century, according to a preliminary study from Yale University and the U.S. Geological Survey. [More]

Von Yale bis Lüneburg: Business-Schulen setzen auf ökologische und soziale Nachhaltigkeit. Denn für eine ganze Reihe der Teilnehmer steht nicht mehr nur der nächste Karriereschritt im Fokus.

The schedule called for this to appear last Friday, but as I was just back from a funeral, yeah, not so much. I had already gone through and bookmarked a whole slew of old posts, though, so here's a recap of the 2003-2004 blogademic year (starting and ending in late June). This year saw a few milestones, though not quite as many as the previous year. I got a grant, passed my third-year reappoi...

On average, it will cost $55,600 to attend Princeton, Penn, Michigan or Stanford next year. But now you can enroll in online courses at all four…

Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan enthralled the students of Yale University as he came to the Ivy League institution as a Chubb Fellow, one of its top honours.

Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, who arrived here to visit the Yale University, was detained for over two hours at a New York airport.

People with a type of tumour that can affect sight, speech and even cause partial paralysis were twice as likely to have had the most common form of dental X-ray, a Yale University study found.

High-level military law experts appear to agree with a Marine Corps board that Sgt. Gary Stein deserves to be booted out for posting disparaging comments about President Obama on the Internet.

A report from Yale University highlighted that those aged 45 or older often assume that pregnancy can instantly be achieved later in life with the help of reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF).

If debates rage about the meaning of the past year in the Middle East, one would not sense much doubt among the regional entrepreneurs and early stage investors gathered in Beirut.

Harvard, Yale and other Ivy League schools were more selective in their admissions this year, though many were choosing from a smaller pool of applicants.

As college applicants receive admissions news, they might find inspiration in the path an orphan from South Sudan took to Yale University.

Aircraft carrier crews already use a set of hand gestures and body positions to guide pilots around the deck. With an increase in unmanned planes, MIT researchers are setting out to do the same with the autonomous robots.

Tras la muerte de Antoni Tàpies, hace ya un mes, Manuel Borja-Villel reparó en que el artista catalán había sido como un padre para él. «Estas cosas las percibes con la ausencia», afirma, frente a una de las obras que tiene el museo. Formado en la Universidad de Yale, el director del Reina Sofía intimó con el genio durante las largas entrevistas que le hizo con motivo de una tesis doctoral sobr...

Many Americans care a lot about their food. But many also find it difficult to improve the quality of what they eat.Afew years ago I bought a cookbook titled "Kill It and Grill It" for my boyfriend, a Yale grad who hunted and fished. Admittedly, I offered the gift ironically. I'd been drawn to it by its cover photo of '70s rocker Ted Nugent and his wife, Shemane, each clad in a denim vest and c...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The mayor faced off with the president of Yale University on Tuesday over an effort by the city's police department to monitor Muslim student groups for any signs that their members harbored terrorist sympathies....

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the NYPD and struck back at Yale University Tuesday following a report that police monitored the websites of Muslim student associations.

Daily patterns in the body's biochemical and physiological processes called circadian rhythms may influence immune-system function. Erol Fikrig and his colleagues at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, have found that the expression of an immune protein called TLR9 rises and falls with the circadian

LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (TheWrap.com) - Kate Hudson has signed on to star in the action-thriller "Everly" for Crime Scene Pictures and Anonymous Content, the companies said Wednesday. Yale Hannon wrote the script, which was included on the 2010 Black List of Best Unproduced Scripts. Joe Lynch is producing. The movie -- set in one room -- is about a woman who breaks up with her boyfriend, a dangerous...

HBO has always been a good place for the literary-minded David Milch, the brainy former Yale lecturer. (Of course, the networks weren't bad either; Milch created “NYPD Blue” while still working on “Hill Street Blues.”)Milch conceived the richly detailed retooled western “Deadwood,” with characters spouting the prosaic and profane. If "Deadwood" ultimately didn’t have an ending, Milch's next pro...

But of course! These kids aren't just smartypants — they also have a few screws loose! Yesterdary, Claire Danes was honored in Cambridge, MA with a parade through town and a fairly odd awards ceremony held by the Harvard Hasty Pudding Theatricals. As their Woman of the Year, she was treated to an escorted ride through [...]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Yale University has tightened its policy on tailgating after a Massachusetts woman was killed and two others injured when a U-Haul truck drove through a tailgating area at the Harvard-Yale football game in November....

In a study that investigates the challenges of disseminating clinical research findings in peer-reviewed biomedical journals, Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that fewer than half of a sample of trials primarily or partially funded by the National Institutes of Health were published within 30 months of completing the clinical trial.

A demonstration of how Aaron Dollar makes simple and versatile robotic hands in his lab at Yale University.

“This young generation is really fascinating, they’re always thinking about ways to push the envelope in unpredictable ways for people my age,” said former Vermont governor and one-time Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean. We caught up with Dean, the founder of the left-leaning, grassroots political action committee Democracy for America, on Dec. 8 during a gathering of the Yale World...

Para David Gelernter, profesor de la Universidad de Yale, Facebook y Twitter son la realización parcial de algo sobre lo que él ha estado escribiendo y pensando desde principios de la década de los 90, una evolución de Internet en una forma mucho menos caótica y más útil que la de hoy.

Jawohl, Impfen ist hier nicht metaphorisch gemeint: Laut dem Paper Immunizing Against Prejudice Effects of Disease Protection on Attitudes Toward Out-Groups, das in der kommenden Ausgabe (derzeit leider noch nicht online, darum der Link zur Pressemitteilung) von Psychological Science erscheinen soll, kann durch Impfung tatsächlich die Aversion gegen Fremde - im Psychologenspre...

Whether we're talking about America’s obesity epidemic, mocking the “foodie” movement on "The Simpsons," the USDA’s revamped food pyramid, or what they’re cooking up on "Top Chef," food and eating are a national obsession -- especially at this time of year.But just as fascinating is the hard science behind our intimate relationship with food. Gordon M. Shepherd, professor of neurobiology at the...

Serious Money: Yale, Harvard are textbook cases of portfolio management

Yale University is offering a course in 'nightlife culture' that includes DJ lecturers and trips to NYC hot spots

In the past 30 years, the UK's manufacturing sector has shrunk by two-thirds, the greatest de-industrialisation of any major nation. It was done in the name of economic modernisation – but what has replaced it?Before moving to Yale and becoming a bestselling historian, Paul Kennedy grew up on Tyneside in the 50s and 60s. "A world of great noise and much dirt," is how he remembers it, where the ...

David Gelernter, a Yale computer science professor who survived an attack by the Unabomber, won a $625 million verdict for patent infringement, but it was overturned.