The screening of a documentary about artist Tom Luckey will be the first of more than a dozen free and public events - including exhibitions, lectures and symposia - at the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) this fall.

Fifty million years ago, the North and South Poles were ice-free and crocodiles roamed the Arctic. Since then, a long-term decrease in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has cooled the Earth. Researchers at Yale University, the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Sheffield now show that land plants saved the Earth from a deep frozen fate by buffering the removal of atmospheric CO2 over the past 24 million years.

Food advertising on television increases automatic snacking on available foods in children and adults, according to a series of experimental studies conducted by researchers from Yale University. The research appears in the July issue of the journal Health Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association.

For a case that could have far reaching implications not only for employment practices in the United States but also for Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s LAW ’79 nomination to the Supreme Court, legal experts agreed that the ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano was an unusual one. In fact, the case’s very eccentricities had onlookers, pundits and Supreme Court justices alike wondering whether the ruling had only further muddled the constitutional issues at hand.

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A genetically engineered biological agent used to promote bone formation is associated with a higher rate of complications in cervical spine (neck) fusions and greater hospital charges for all categories of spinal fusions, according to a study by researchers at Yale School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

In the hope of stemming one of the biggest public health crises in Southeast Asia, Yale University is partnering with the University of Malaya to fight the spread of HIV among drug users in Malaysia who are completing prison terms and transitioning back into the community. The two universities recently signed a letter of intent expressing their continued commitment to this partnership, which is funded by a $4.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

For years, New Haven’s firefighters have waited.

Chris Gobrecht, the Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Women's Basketball at Yale has announced that Dianne Nolan has been promoted to Associate Head Coach. Nolan. A 35-year Division I coaching veteran, served as an assistant coach on the Bulldogs' sidelines for the past two seasons.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of 20 New Haven firefighters who claimed in a reverse discrimination case that they were denied promotion because of their race.

The case, Ricci v. DeStefano, has been watched closely because of its potential implications on both how employers choose whom to hire and the confirmation process of Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79, who has been nominated to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. The 5-4 ruling overturns a decision Sotomayor upheld as an appeals court judge.