* In 2008, Trudeau received the Mental Health Research Advocacy Award from the Yale School of Medicine for his depiction of the mental-health issues facing soldiers upon returning home from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

2008: Yale University Press and the Fashion Institute of Technology New York.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

Other Yale alumni who made serious bids for the Presidency during this period include Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 2008 ), Howard Dean ( 2004 ), Gary Hart ( 1984 and 1988 ), Paul Tsongas ( 1992 ), Pat Robertson ( 1988 ) and Jerry Brown ( 1976, 1980, 1992 ).

* Morris, Benny ( 2008 ), " 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War ", Yale University Press, New Haven, ISBN 978-0-300-12696-9

Yale University Press, 2008.

New Haven, Conn .: Yale University Press, 2008. pp. 93 – 119.

Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I ( Yale University Press, 2008 )

* Hämäläinen, Pekka ( 2008 ) The Comanche Empire New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

* Benny Morris, 1948, Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-12696-9

To seek more support from its alumni in the US and cement its collaboration with Yale University, Fudan University launched the Fudan University Education Development Foundation in New York in February 2008.

* Geoffery Roberts, Stalin ’ s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008 ).

In late 2008, the faculty decided that the school should move to an Honors / Pass / Low Pass ( H / P / LP ) grading system, much like those in place at Yale and Stanford Law Schools.

* Professor Paul Bloom, Yale University 2008, Yale Open Course, Introduction to Psychology, Lecture 10 Transcript

William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings, ( New Haven and London: Yale University Press ( Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art ), 2008 ).

In 2008, Yale Book of Quotations editor Fred R. Shapiro cast doubt on Niebuhr's claim of authorship.

The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread, Yale University Press, November 2008, ISBN 0-300-11229-7, ISBN 978-0-300-11229-0

In June 2008, Yale announced plans to build two new residential colleges, bringing the total to fourteen.

" No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery ," Langdon Hammer, chairman of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008.

He worked at the Rockefeller Institute ( 1958 – 1973 ), and was a professor at Yale University Medical School ( 1973 – 1990 ), and University of California, San Diego ( 1990 – 2008 ).

In: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Yale University Press, New Haven 2008, p. 534, ISBN 978-0-300-11903-9

* 1948: A History of the First Arab – Israeli War, Yale University Press, 2008.

As of March 2008, FIRE rated most institutions " red "; of the eight universities of the Ivy League, two were rated " green " ( Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania ), four were rated " red " ( Brown, Cornell, Harvard and Princeton ) and the final two ( Yale and Columbia ) were rated " yellow ".

In a June 2008 issue of the journal Autoimmunity Reviews, researchers S Planque, Sudhir Paul, Ph. D, and Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ph. D of the University Of Texas Medical School at Houston announced that they have engineered an abzyme that degrades the superantigenic region of the gp120 CD4 binding site.

As of 2008, 1891 patents were granted to Caltech researchers since 1969.

As an example of this process, in 2008 Danish researchers first revealed the sequence of events when oxygen and hydrogen combine on the surface of titanium dioxide ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >, or titania ) to produce water.

Ten to 20 percent of the scientific publications of these ten universities in the period 2006 – 2008 were the result of partnerships with researchers in industry.

A 2008 study by Baylor University researchers found that clergy in the US often deny or dismiss the existence of a mental illness.

* In April 2008, researchers at HP Labs announced the creation of a working memristor: a fourth basic passive circuit element whose existence had previously only been theorized.

" In 2008, Portuguese researchers conducted a rat study aimed at answering the question of whether an electroshock series causes structural changes in vulnerable parts of the brain.

In 2008, researchers found that the Pen-tailed Treeshrew in Malaysia was able to consume large amounts of naturally fermented nectar of up to 3. 8 % alcohol content the entire year without having any effects on behaviour.

To incorporate nanowire technology into industrial applications, researchers in 2008 developed a method of welding nanowires together: a sacrificial metal nanowire is placed adjacent to the ends of the pieces to be joined ( using the manipulators of a scanning electron microscope ); then an electric current is applied, which fuses the wire ends.

In 2008, researchers in Germany reported on the mechanisms that cause the runner's high.

As of December, 2008, Italian researchers have discovered the pottery center where the oil lamps that lit the ancient Roman empire were made.

In a British study released May 29, 2008, researchers discovered that the common bacterial infections Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli appear to be risk factors in some cases of SIDS.

In December 2008, researchers from the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University completed a DNA tree of all 21 known species of beaked whales.

In 2008, British researchers developed methods of identifying users of marijuana, cocaine and methadone from their fingerprint residues.

In 2008, researchers found the apparatus that Miller used in his early experiments and analyzed the material using more sensitive later techniques.

On February 21, 2008 it was announced that NASA and researchers at McGill University had discovered a neutron star with the properties of a radio pulsar which emitted some magnetically-powered bursts, like a magnetar.

Despite these assertions, however, it is largely recognized and accepted by practitioners and researchers that leadership is important, and research supports the notion that leaders do contribute to key organizational outcomes ( Day & Lord, 1988 ; Kaiser, Hogan, & Craig, 2008 ).

However, a study, published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association ( April 2008 ) completed by researchers at Northeastern University found high concentrations of E. coli bacteria in the Charles River after a long period of no rain.

In 2008 Dutch researchers announced further evidence that wood density caused the claimed high quality of these instruments.

The organization closed in 2008, and its founder Cheryl Chase moved on to help found Accord Alliance, an organization set up to promote comprehensive and integrated approaches to care that enhance the health and well-being of people and families affected by intersex ( disorders of sex development ), by promoting collaboration and shared decision-making between patients, families, clinicians, and researchers interested in improving care and health outcomes.

Chang ( 2008 ) believes emotional intelligence is not definitive to positive affect and researchers have a number of paths that allow the enhancement of emotional intelligence ; however more study is required to track the gradient of positive affect in psychology.

In a paper published in 2009, researchers from Iceland recount their application of an interacting particle model to the capelin stock around Iceland, successfully predicting the spawning migration route for 2008.

The court documents released as a result of one of the lawsuits in October 2008 indicated that GSK " and / or researchers may have suppressed or obscured suicide risk data during clinical trials " of paroxetine.

In February 2008 researchers at the University of Bonn announced they have found the genetic basis of two distinct forms of inherited hair loss, opening a broad path to treatments for baldness.