New alumni fellow elected

Will Miller '78 B.A., head of a financial institution that serves consumers and small businesses and a national civic leader, has been elected as the Yale Corporation's newest alumni fellow in a worldwide ballot of University graduates.
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Sensors won't save lives from suicide bombers, warns Yale expert

Sensors to detect suicide bombers before they can reach a target and detonate explosives would not substantially reduce deaths and injuries in urban settings, Yale researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Study: Monkeys ape humans' economic traits

The basic economic theory that people work harder to avoid losing money than they do to make money is shared by monkeys, suggesting this trait has a long evolutionary history, according to a Yale study under review by the Journal of Political Economy.
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O T H E RS T O R I E S

Richard Shaw departs for Stanford post

Tennis goes co-ed at this year's Pilot Pen

Yale co-sponsors 'City of Summer' concerts and films

Exhibit features post-Civil War works by 'artful storyteller'

Yale alumni, teachers win Tony Awards

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

• Philosopher Keith DeRose: Allison Foundation Chair

• Phyllis Granoff: Hixon Chair in World Religions

• Thomas Kavanagh: Street Professor of French

• Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: Crown Chair in Management

Law School project on information society gets Microsoft grant

Poll shows public's distaste with foreign oil dependence

Scientists discover how plants protect themselves from infection

Team seeking 'perfume' to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes

Geologists use ancient sea algae to trace CO₂ levels of long ago

Study shows how sex discrimination in job hiring is able to endure

YSN study shows effectiveness of preschool health screening

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWS

• Team to develop new system for testing potential vaccines

• Senior citizens' television-watching habits affect their views on aging, study shows

• Grant funds study of intestinal condition common in tiny babies

• Yale center joins with Bike Across America to raise funds for cancer survivors clinic

• Alzheimer's disease patients sought for testing of promising vaccine

• Scientists' discovery of protein amplification in melanoma may lead to new drug target

• Discovery of breast cancer growth regulator may help measure treatment's effectiveness

• Patients disfigured by facial trauma suffer host of problems

• Female sexual dysfunction may have neurological cause, study finds

• New studies aim to benefit women's health

• Study links an inherited pain disorder to specific gene mutation

Spotlight on Sports

Athletics archive now in library's collection

Three promoted to post of associate provost

Event to explore role of faith in the corporate world

In Memoriam: Dick Wittink, marketing expert and SOM teacher

Five faculty members awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for research

Event explored how libraries can benefit city schools

New alumni lauded for efforts to improve public schools

Yale Books in Brief

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