Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 15, 2008|Volume 36, Number 18

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Geneticist cited for research
on hypertension

Dr. Richard Lifton, a Yale School of Medicine geneticist and internationally known expert on hypertension, has received the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences for discovering genes that cause many forms of high and low blood pressure.
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Researcher focuses on heredity in
quest to understand common diseases

Exhibit traces linkages
on the ‘Tree of Life’

It may come as a surprise to learn that the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex is closely related to the tiny hummingbird, or that, lineage-wise, mushrooms are closer to humans than they are to a lily.
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‘Rolling’ offers honest, sometimes shocking, look at life in a wheelchair

Videotaping himself as part of Yale doctor Gretchen Berland’s documentary film project, J. Galen Buckwalter describes how people have reacted to him during his 30 years of using a wheelchair, the result of a diving accident when he was 17.
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Study: Older women more likely to suffer depression than older men

Older women are more prone to depression and are more likely to remain depressed than older men, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the February Archives of General Psychiatry.
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O T H E RS T O R I E S

Researchers seeking new test for detecting kidney injury associated with cardiac surgery

Yale Rheumatic Diseases Research Core Center awarded $3.2 million in federal funding

One Law Clinic, Two Cities

Conference will look at issues surrounding nuclear disarmament

Former Yale architecture dean to give Chubb Lecture

Study gives high marks to use of bypass surgery for those in their 90s

Yale Ob-Gyn researchers discussed current work at Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine meeting

Several Yale Ob-Gyn presentations are
awarded honors at meeting

Judith Resnik wins prestigious honor for her ‘outstanding scholarship’ in law

Lectures explore mythmaking in Hollywood westerns

Panel will explore ways to promote diverse faculties

‘Images 2008’ exhibition includes works by three Yale staff members

Memorial service for Dr. Barry Goldberg

Yale affiliates to be honored guests at benefit event for LEAP

Campus Notes

In the next YB&C

Study Group releases report on feasibility of adding two new residential colleges

Yale-developed test 99% accurate in detecting early ovarian cancer

A life-sized model of a Rafflesia plant — a leafless, stemless, rootless plant that does not use photosynthesis but bears one of the world's largest flowers — is featured in the "Tree of Life" exhibition at Yale's Peabody Museum.
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This image from Dr. Gretchen Berland's film project "Rolling" show Ernie Wallengren coaching his son's basketball team.
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