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Yale has a system of 12 residential colleges, instituted in 1933 through a grant by Yale graduate Edward S. Harkness, who admired the college systems at Oxford and Cambridge. Each college has a carefully constructed support structure for students, including a Dean, Master, affiliated faculty, and resident Fellows. Each college ... features distinctive architecture, secluded courtyards, and facilities ranging from libraries to squash courts to darkrooms. While each college at Yale offers its own seminars, social events, and Master's Teas with guests from the world, Yale students also take part in academic and social programs across the university, and all of Yale's 2,000 courses are open to undergraduates from any college.
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Chupp and his colleagues at Yale, the University of Paris and the University of Wisconsin recruited 253 adults -- some with asthma and some without. Levels of YKL-40 were measured from blood samples at all three study sites. In Paris, the researchers ... conducted lung biopsies.
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To support its research mission Yale University (Yale) enters into a variety of research collaborations or affiliations with other organizations. When these collaborations or affiliations involve a non-Yale organization that is “engaged in [human subjects] research” (as defined by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS), Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)), Yale will, under certain circumstances and with appropriate documentation, agree to serve as the organization’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) of record. The IRB review process contributes to the ethical conduct of research that involves human volunteers and is required by federal regulation.
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Much of Yale University's staff, including most maintenance staff, dining hall employees, and administrative staff are unionized. Yale has a history of difficult and prolonged labor negotiations, often culminating in strikes. There have been at least eight strikes since 1968, and the New York Times wrote that Yale has a reputation as having the worst record of labor tension of any university in the U.S.[58] Yale's unusually large endowment further exacerbates the tension over wages. Yale has been accused of failing to treat workers with respect, in addition to the usual concerns over wages[59]. In a 2003 strike... more Union employees were working than striking. [60] There are currently at least three unions of Yale employees.
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The study, commissioned by the team launching Physique®, a new hair care line introduced by Procter & Gamble today, was conducted among women and men of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds in the Gender Communications Laboratory at Yale University. The research was designed to test the cause and effect relationship between having ``bad hair'' and experiencing negative psychological consequences. Specifically, the study uncovered important findings across three psychological measures: reduced self-esteem; increased social insecurity; and a diminished sense of being a worthwhile person.
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Executive Chairman of Marshall Edwards Inc., Dr. Graham Kelly said, "The Yale University experience with the use of phenoxodiol in reproductive cancers in women makes it well placed to pursue phenoxodiol in treatment of SCC. The Yale team had previously identified that phenoxodiol represents a breakthrough in anti-cancer therapeutics by targeting death receptors in cancer cells, with no effect on these receptors in normal cells."
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