Predators have considerably more influence than plants over how an ecosystem functions, according to a Yale study published Feb. 15 in Science that offers a revolutionary shift in thinking on the subject. Environmental cages...
Using artificial cell-like particles, Yale biomedical engineers have devised a rapid and efficient way to produce a 45-fold enhancement of T cell activation and expansion, an immune response important for a patient’s ability to fight cancer and infectious...
Erin Lavik Erin Lavik, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Yale, was honored recently by the Connecticut Technology Council as one of their 2008 Women of Innovation.The annual event, now in...
Steven Koonin, head scientist for the global energy company BP, will speak at Yale University on February 18 and 19 as the Benjamin and Barbara Zucker Environmental Fellow for Spring 2008.Koonin will be guest speaker at a Master’s Tea on February 18 at 4...
Midwestern farming has introduced the equivalent of five Connecticut Rivers into the Mississippi River over the past 50 years and is adding more carbon dioxide annually into its waters, according to a study published in Nature by researchers at Yale and...
Davos, Switzerland — Switzerland tops the global list of countries ranked by environmental performance, according to the 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) produced by a team of environmental experts at Yale University and Columbia University.The...
The Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars series will begin its 2008 schedule with a program on the New Haven start-up company Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on Tuesday, February 12 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Anlyan Center Auditorium, Yale School of Medicine...
Derek Briggs Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal’s soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group...
Yale President Richard C. Levin and City Chief Administrator Robert Smuts, representing New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr., presented 13 Seton Elm-Ivy Awards at a ceremony on April 30 in the Presidents Room at Yale University.The awards were established...
Important periods in the history of Yale will now be more accessible to scholars and students through the Yale University Library’s Yale Daily News Historical Archive.The Yale Daily News (YDN) is the oldest college daily newspaper in the United States,...