Author Archives: Tiffany Woo

On the School of Art website Monday, a pyramid, a cube and a sphere twirled around and around, changing colors from red to blue to green and purple. On Sunday, the site’s home page wished Mylinh Nguyen ART ’11 a happy birthday with bold text on a cheery yellow background. The School of Art website »

Nicaraguan field workers who become sterile due to pesticides, a conservationist who was murdered while trying to save Lake Naivasha in Kenya and New Haven teenagers working on urban farms will all make an appearance at the Whitney Humanities Center this week — in 35 mm. The second annual Environmental Film Festival at Yale, which »

Health care needs to change from a reactive, treatment-based system to one designed to prevent diseases, Bloomberg News Managing Editor Michael Waldholz said Wednesday at a Pierson College Master’s Tea. Waldholz, the managing editor for global health, science and environment, spoke to an audience of approximately 25 about how polarized politics in the United States »

When was the last time you noticed the inside of an envelope? American artist, bookmaker and writer Erica Van Horn manages to make art using just that. “The Book Remembers Everything: The Work of Erica Van Horn,” on display at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s mezzanine level, includes samples of Horn’s prints, book »

World-renowned pianist Alfred Brendel sang, gestured and rose to his feet passionately — all to imitate the rise and fall of a melody to School of Music students gathered at the Morse Recital Hall Thursday. Brendel, best known for his interpretations of classical-period German works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven, »

The Board of Aldermen approved the groundbreaking New Haven teachers’ union contract on Thursday, clearing the path for city officials to embark on extensive public school reform plans. With one abstention — Ward 21 Alderwoman Katrina Jones, who is an employee for New Haven Public Schools — the aldermen unanimously voted to approve the contract, »

The Yale Office of Cooperative Research and the law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati hosted a “Start-Up Boot Camp” for aspiring life science and technology entrepreneurs Tuesday afternoon at the Hope Memorial Building. Brian Beard and Matthew Langer GRD ’87, partners at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, spoke to an audience of about 50 »

At the world premiere of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” 40 years ago, Robert Redford and Paul Newman DRA ’54, dressed in elegant black suits, graced a red carpet — not in Hollywood but in New Haven. The Whitney Humanities Center screened the film last Friday before an audience of more than 200 to »

A team of Yale researchers have used a new DNA sequencing technique to diagnose a rare disease in a Turkish infant. In May, doctors from the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine asked Sterling Professor Richard Lifton, Yale Sequencing Center Director Shrikant Mane and post-doctoral fellow Murim Choi to use whole exome sequencing, which analyzes the genes »

The Yale School of Medicine has created a new research center to study the evolution of the human brain, thanks to grants from three federal institutes. The Yale Center for Human Brain Development and Evolution, which was created in late September, is funded by over $26 million from the National Institutes of Health. The center’s »