With World AIDS Day less than a week away, two new studies from Yale School of Medicine show that jail inmates, one of the highest risk groups for AIDS, are far more likely to be tested for HIV if given the opportunity in the first 24 hours of incarceration. The studies, which could lead to better prevention and earlier and more effective treatment of inmates, are published in the November 25 issue of PLoS ONE, a journal of the Public Library of Science.

The world’s oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, this could quicken the pace of climate change, according to the study, which appears in the November 25 issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

The serious behavior problems that can occur in children with autism and related conditions can be reduced with a treatment plan that includes medication combined with a structured training program for parents, according to Yale University researchers and their colleagues.

Yale College senior Geoffrey C. Shaw and recent Yale graduate Matthew L. Baum have both been named Rhodes Scholars for study at Oxford University next year.

Yale College senior Geoffrey C. Shaw and recent Yale graduate Matthew L. Baum have both been named Rhodes Scholars for study at Oxford University next year.

Matthew L. Baum ’09 and Geoffrey C. Shaw ’10 are among 32 students nationwide who this weekend were awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, the most prestigious undergraduate academic scholarship.

Matthew Baum ’09 and Geoffrey Shaw ’10 are among 32 students nationwide who this weekend were awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, the most prestigious undergraduate academic scholarship.

Overcoming their alma maters’ rivalry, Richard Sperry ’68 and Roger Cheever, Harvard class of 1967, say they hold the record for most consecutive Games attended.

The Yale School of Medicine will respond by Dec. 8 to a letter from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, asking about the school’s policy on medical ghostwriting, whereby companies publish articles under researchers’ names, School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern said Wednesday.

Photography student Miranda Lewis ’12 said she worked all summer to purchase a new digital camera for her “Digital Photography” class.