By the time they complete his mechanical engineering class, Professor John Morrell’s students will have designed and built a hybrid car or a model airplane and entered them in national competitions.During the semester, the Yale undergraduates in his class...
“Teaching is about joining students in learning to deal not only with the material but also with their lives” — so says Ansgar Mohnkern, one of nine Yale doctoral students who were awarded this year’s Prize Teaching Fellowships (PTFs).Considering what...
Sobering childhood obesity rates in New Haven hit home for Yale baseball star Joshua Cox, who helped organize the first annual Yale Athletic Health Fair and Community Dinner, which takes place on Saturday, December 6. The free event, which aims to educate...
For Ross Mitchell and Taylor Kilian, graduate students in geology and geophysics, the end of the work week sometimes marks the beginning of their work.Weekends often find them far from New Haven, studying paleomagnetism — using “fossilized” magnetic...
A smile may be infectious, but are obesity, smoking and even a headache?Published research has suggested that certain health outcomes are “contagious” in close social networks — that, for instance, people who kick the smoking habit are likely to...
Yale University is disappointed that the government of Peru has rejected Yale’s offers to negotiate a collaborative agreement and instead decided to sue the University to recover archaeological material legally excavated at Machu Picchu nearly a century...
Youngsters and adults alike will soon be able to tour the cosmos without leaving their seats, thanks to the opening of a new planetarium at Yale’s Leitner Family Observatory, 355 Prospect St. The renamed Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium is set...
Elizabeth Alexander, an award-winning poet and Yale professor of African American studies and English literature, has been selected to compose and read an original poem at the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. “I’m completely...
Yale University has today agreed to pay the federal government $7.6 million to settle issues arising from a broad, multi-year investigation of federal research grant accounting going back to 1999. The settlement covers Yale’s grants with substantially...
Edward Zigler earns the ‘Nobel Prize for Children’Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology, was honored with a Humanitarian Award by the World of Children organization on Nov. 13.World of Children is a global recognition and funding non-...