The Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agrobiotechnology has received a gift from Monsanto Company that will support postdoctoral and graduate research at Yale University in the United States and Peking University in China. The...
Yale has received a four-year, $2.1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support science education programs that enhance opportunities for undergraduates who study science at Yale and to fund science outreach programs for New...
Pierre C. Hohenberg, deputy provost for science and technology and adjunct professor of physics and applied physics has received the prestigious 2003 Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society. Hohenberg received the honor for research...
Carol Browner, former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will discuss “The Women in Charge: Women in Environmental and Natural Resource Leadership” on October 16, at noon in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, at the Yale School of...
A four-year, $1.2 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles will establish the grant-funded W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Quantum Information Physics at Yale. Exploring the science and technology necessary to build a quantum computer...
Daniel C. Esty, professor of environmental law and policy at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and clinical professor of law at the Yale Law School, is the recipient of the 2002 American Bar Association Award for Distinguished...
Robert E. Apfel, The Robert E. Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Yale, died on August 1 at age 59. A Yale professor for over three decades, Apfel had been the chair of the former Council of Engineering, comprising the Departments of...
Superintendents, principals, teachers and program staff from “community schools” - Schools of the 21st Century (21C) - will gather at a Yale University-sponsored national conference on July 15 - 17 to learn from an exciting mix of experts in the field of...
The Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has been awarded the international environmental Blue Planet Prize by the Tokyo-based Asahi Glass Foundation. The prestigious prize has been awarded annually since 1992 to two...
Joan A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, is the winner of the 2002 Lewis S. Rosentiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research. The award is presented annually to scientists for recent discoveries of...