Yale announced the creation of The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, which has been established to further historical and comparative explorations of the frontier experience in North America and throughout the world.
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Claude-Anne Lopez knows Benjamin Franklin intimately, having spent half a century getting to know the Founding Father, his friends, family and associates.
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To combat the prevalent problem of head lice in children, a Yale pediatrician has invented a shampoo that makes the nits visible under ultraviolet lights, making for easier, more effective removal.
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O T H E RS T O R I E S

Reunions bring record numbers to campus

Yale SOM taking to the high seas to offer educational seminars for executives

School of Music awards first Simeone scholarship

Rubenfeld named to Law School's Slaughter chair

Events to celebrate the arrival of 'Amistad' ship

MEDICAL SCHOOL NEWS

• Cocaine treatment blends drugs for alcohol, opiate abuse

• Team studying the factors leading to cocaine addiction

• Many elderly prefer hospital stay to home care, study shows

• Herpesviruses will be focus of international conference

• Study: Grief for dead spouse impacts health

• Team finds sick teens are often suicidal

• Scientists say play prepares children for school

• Grants to fund Yale research on mental illness

OBITUARIES

• Long-time professor William N. Parker, a scholar of U.S. and European economic history, dies

• Physicist E. Robert Beringer, specialist in microwave spectroscopy, dies

• Arts advocate, gallery curator Janet Dickson dies

SOM Dean Jeffrey Garten assembles panel to explore 'new economy'

Study proposes tax on snack foods to fight obesity

Employees honored at awards dinner for their many years of service to Yale

Holmes is inducted into American Philosophical Society

Ian Shapiro selected as a Carnegie Scholar in recognition of his scholarship on political system

Comer lauded as leader in American education

DeVita honored for his research on lymphoma

Yale Athletics joins in venture to lure sports fans

Summer Cabaret season celebrates Yale playwrights

Yale Repertory Theatre marks milestones during its fall season

Diana D. Brooks resigns her post as Yale trustee

David Bromwich earns prestigious award for his literary works

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This Mende mask is among the objects on display in the exhibit "The African Roots of the Amistad Rebellion: Masks of the Sacred Bush," which will open on July 15 at the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
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