A forum on open access to peer–reviewed research articles and the dissemination of published research will be held from 3–5 p.m. on Thursday, February 10 in Harkness Auditorium of the Yale School of Medicine at 333 Cedar Street. The purpose of the forum...
Gus Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, has been named Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Fellow for 2005 in Singapore. The Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitors Program hosts academics and scholars from around the world, and...
Finland ranks first in the world in environmental sustainability out of 146 countries according to the latest Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) produced by a team of environmental experts at Yale and Columbia Universities. The 2005 ESI, to be...
Prions, infectious proteins associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease, were previously thought to accumulate mainly in the brain, but Yale and University of Zurich researchers report in Science that other organs can also...
Steven Sherwood, assistant professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University, has won the 2005 Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, given by the American Meteorological Society(AMS), the nation’s leading professional society for those in atmospheric and...
Research by Yale professor of Chemistry, Mark A. Johnson on the structure and chemical behavior of water was highlighted as one of the ten most important of discoveries in 2004 by the preeminent journal Science. While water is considered the fluid of...
Hubble Space Telescope data, analyzed by a Yale astronomer using gravitational lensing techniques, has generated a spatial map demonstrating the clumped substructure of dark matter inside clusters of galaxies. Gravitational lensing image of...
Fossil records of the holes drilled in clam shells before and after a mass extinction two million years ago show patterns of predator-prey behavior indicating that although diversity recovered rapidly, the level of competition has not, according to an...
A toxic chemical painted on the bottom of large vessels to protect against barnacles may cause hearing difficulties in whales and other mammals, according to a study by Yale researchers to be published in the March issue of Biophysical Journal. The...