Using a microscopic grain of superconducting aluminum, a researcher who is now at Yale and his colleagues at CEA-Saclay Laboratories in France, have constructed an “artificial atom” that can be used as a quantum bit, an essential component for the...
Mexico City-CONACYT Director General Jaime Parada and Yale University President Richard C. Levin have signed a Letter of Intent that creates the most generous scholarship program that CONACYT has ever forged with a U.S. university for Mexican students...
President George W. Bush has awarded the National Medal of Technology to Jerry M. Woodall, the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Electrical Engineering, the first Yale professor to ever receive the prestigious award. Woodall has done pioneering research...
A team of Yale engineers, scientists, physicians and their colleagues have received a $7.1 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) to perform advanced bioimaging research that will provide neurosurgeons...
Benoit Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University, has been awarded the very prestigious Japan Prize by The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. The international prize recognizes “original and outstanding...
Yale has received an $18.1 million award to establish one of 10 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Proteomics Centers that will develop innovative proteomic technologies to diagnose and treat heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders....
The second annual Yale and New Haven Biotechnology Reception, sponsored by the Yale Biotechnology Student Interest Group, a student organization interested in promoting local biotechnology development, will take place on September 20 beginning at 12:30 p...
Students from Yale University used the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory to capture a series of still images of asteroid 2002 NY40 on August 15-16, two nights before its close flyby of Earth. These images have been turned into a...
Yale Chemistry Professor David Austin has received a $100,000 research award from the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance to study tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a genetic disorder that leads to tumor growth in multiple organs, including the brain, kidneys,...
A Yale University researcher in a NASA-funded study has discovered that tiny airborne particles of pollution may modify developing thunderclouds by increasing the quantity and reducing the size of ice crystals within them. These modifications may affect...