Two Yale engineers are among 86 of the nation’s brightest young engineers selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 10th annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium from September 9-11. Ainissa Ramirez and Erin Lavik will...
A report in the journal Nature describes the first experiment in which a single photon is coherently coupled to a single superconducting qubit (quantum bit or “artificial atom”). This represents a new paradigm in which quantum optics experiments can...
Mathematician Walter Feit, a Yale professor for 40 years, died at age 73 after a long illness on July 29, 2004 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, CT. Professor Feit was a pure mathematician whose contributions provided fundamental infrastructure...
Research led by Anna Marie Pyle, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University reveals how a protein from Hepatitis C (HCV) unwinds RNA, potentially allowing it be copied. The work published in the journal Nature focuses on an...
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies will begin constructing a new home bearing the name of Yale College alumnus Richard Kroon, who recently made a major gift to the school. Kroon, a New Jersey resident who retired in 2001 after 32...
Richard L. Edelson, M.D., Director of Yale Cancer Center, has announced the appointment of Ira Mellman as Scientific Director of the Center. Mellman is Sterling Professor of Cell Biology and Immunobiology, and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology at...
A team of researchers led by Melinda Smith at Yale and Travis Huxman at the University of Arizona report that, from desert to rainforest, during drought conditions, the maximum rain use efficiency (RUEmax), or effective productivity of plant growth per...
The Astronomy Department at Yale University will host 125 astronomers from the USA and 18 countries abroad at its largest conference in nearly three decades, from July 12 to July 16. The meeting, “Helio- and Asteroseismology: Towards a Golden Future,”...
Yale scientists, working with the fruit fly as a model, have discovered how odors are encoded by the olfactory system into the complex messages that are sent to the brain. The study, published in the June 25 issue of Cell, provides new insight into how...
I. Richard Savage, emeritus professor and former chair of the Department of Statistics at Yale and a world-renowned expert in the use of statistics in public affairs, such as AIDS diffusion, DNA fingerprinting, human rights and national defense, died on...