MARKHAM, Ont. – Yale assistant coach Jessica Koizumi helped the Boston Blades win the Canadian Women's Hockey League championship Saturday afternoon, earning the Clarkson Cup -- regarded as the Stanley Cup of women's ice hockey -- in the process. The Blades defeated the Montreal Stars, the team which had won ...
Assistant Coach Koizumi Wins Clarkson Cup as Boston Beats Montreal for CWHL
Posted On Thursday, March 28, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Boston, Brampton, Jessica Koizumi, Koizumi Wins Clarkson Cup, Montreal and Toronto
MARKHAM, Ont. – Yale assistant coach Jessica Koizumi helped the Boston Blades win the Canadian Women's Hockey League championship Saturday afternoon, earning the Clarkson Cup -- regarded as the Stanley Cup of women's ice hockey -- in the process. The Blades defeated the Montreal Stars, the team which had won ...
Study Reveals Effect of Men’s Incarceration on the Mother of Their Children
Posted On Thursday, March 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: American Sociological Review, Kirstin Turney, mothers of their children, University of Pennsylvania, Yale professor of sociology
When men are incarcerated, there is an often-overlooked group that suffers negative effects as well — the mothers of their children, according to a landmark new study led by Christopher Wildeman, Yale professor of sociology.
The research, titled “Despair by Association? The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated ...
Renzulli Academy Model Expands to Three New Connecticut School Districts
Posted On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: gifted-and-talented schooling, Joseph Renzulli, Lawrence Kutner, Renzulli Academy, students in Bridgeport
After four years of changing the face of education in Hartford, the Renzulli Academy is expanding its nationally renowned model of gifted-and-talented schooling to three new districts in Connecticut.
Starting this fall, students in Bridgeport, New London, and Windham will be able to attend schools for fourth-through-sixth graders modeled on the ...
Yale’s Dance Laboratories Attract World Figures
Posted On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: choreographer, Reggie Wilson Showings, world figures, Yale Dance Theater
When renowned choreographer Reggie Wilson and 16 undergraduates give two lecture presentations at Yale on Wednesday, March 6, they will demonstrate how the body can think.
Titled “Reggie Wilson Showings,” the presentations will take place at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. in the Morse-Stiles Crescent Theater, 302 York St. Admission is ...
Yale To Announce Winners Of $150,000 Global Literary Prizes
Posted On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Donald Windham, Manuscript Library, prize-winners, Windham Campbell, Yale YouTube channel
The first recipients of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale will be announced at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Monday, March 4, at 10 a.m. The announcement will be made by Peter Salovey, president-elect of Yale University, and will be live-streamed on the Yale ...
Two Yale Researchers Who Study the Immune System Share Vilcek Prize
Posted On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Richard A. Flavell, Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Vilcek Foundation, Yale School of Medicine
Two Yale School of Medicine researchers who study the immune system will share a 2013 Vilcek Prize
The Vilcek Foundation is a New York City-based non-profit organization devoted to raising public awareness of the contributions of immigrants to the sciences, arts, and culture in the United States.
Richard A. Flavell, chair and ...
Top Number Lower, Aging Process Slower?
Posted On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Calhoun Cardiology Center, Dr. Leslie Wolfson, Dr. William White, National Institutes of Health
Can an aggressive lowering of the average daily blood pressure in a hypertensive patient slow the brain’s aging process?
University of Connecticut Health Center physicians are conducting a federally funded clinical trial to compare treatment approaches and their effect on changes in the brain related to mobility, memory and urinary function ...
Boris Berman Performs Music Of The “Russian Thaw” And Beyond Feb. 10
Posted On Thursday, February 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Boris Berman, Edison Denisov, Russian Thaw, Tigran Mansurian, Valentin Silvestrov will follow, Yale School of Music
Boris Berman, professor of piano at the Yale School of Music, will perform music from the “Russian Thaw” the evening of Sunday, February 10. The Thaw was a period of relative liberalization of Soviet cultural policies in the 1960s, and Berman, born in Soviet Russia, belonged to a small group of Moscow ...
Journalist’s Talk To Explore Social Justice, Equity, And Public Health
Posted On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Charlayne Hunter Gault, equity, Hunter-Gault, Journalist’s talk, Public Health, social justice
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, award-winning journalist/activist, author, and the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia, will be at Yale on Tuesday, Feb. 5, for a tea at Branford College. Her talk is titled “Social Justice, Equity and Public Health.”
The event, which will take place at 4 p.m. in the ...
Yale Co-Op Partnership and O’Neill Playwriting Program Present ‘The Annual Festival of New Work’
Posted On Thursday, January 31, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Annual Festival, Paula Vogel, Yale Cabaret, Yale School of Drama, Yale University
Yale School of Drama actors will read nine original plays written by Yale undergraduates and students from New Haven’s Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School (Co-Op) at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1 and 2, at Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St. The event is free and open to ...
Researchers Find Genes Behind Aggressive Endometrial Cancer
Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: chemo-resistant, computational biology, Dr. Alessandro Santin, genomics, gynecological cancer, uterine serous carcinoma
In a major breakthrough for uterine serous carcinoma (USC) — a chemo-resistant, aggressive form of endometrial cancer, Yale researchers have defined the genetic landscape of USC tumors, findings that point to new treatment opportunities.
The collaborative team—which included researchers with expertise in gynecological cancer, genomics, and computational biology— identified a number ...
How Martin Luther King Jr. Inspired me: A Yale Perspective
Posted On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Chris Gobrecht, Drew Days, Martin Luther King Jr., Sharon Kugler, Tapley Stephenson, Yale perspective
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, YaleNews asked members of the campus community to share their favorite quote from the civil rights leader or tell us how he inspired them. Here’s what they said:
Drew Days
Alfred M. Rankin Professor Emeritus of Law and
Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law ...
