CME Group and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) announced that Robert Shiller is the 2012 recipient of the CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications. He will be honored at an award ceremony at W Chicago-City Center on...
Patricia E. Kane, the Friends of American Arts Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Yale University Art Gallery, is the inaugural winner of a merit award from the Wunsch Americana Foundation.The award recognizes outstanding dedication and...
The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) awarded its Sara A. Whaley book prize to Jennifer Klein for “Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State.” The prize is awarded for work that addresses women and labor.Klein is...
Dr. Hugh S. Taylor has been named chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH), effective Oct. 1.Dr...
Dr. Ronald J. Vender was elected the 2012-2013 president of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), a national medical specialty society representing more than 12,000 clinical gastroenterologists and other specialists in digestive diseases.Dr....
Scientists at Yale University have described in the greatest detail yet aspects of the chemical processes by which RNA carries out the expression of our genes.
Scientists at Yale University have described in the greatest detail yet aspects of the chemical...
Yale astronomers have caught the Milky Way having a snack.Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, researchers have discovered a band, or stream, of stars believed to be the remnant of an ancient star cluster slowly being ingested by the Milky Way, Earth’s...
A fossil unearthed in Great Britain may end a long-running debate about the mollusks, one of life’s most diverse invertebrate groups: Which evolved first, shelled forms like clams and snails, or their shell-less, worm-like relatives?A small new fossil...