At the point that children utter their first words, a complex set of conceptual, social and linguistic mental capacities are at work, Yale researcher Paul Bloom reports in his new book, “How Children Learn the Meanings of Words.” “In addition to...
Yale has established a joint center for research and training in plant biology with China’s Peking University that will actively foster collaborative research among scientists at the two universities and will train the next generation of international...
Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated institution for speech research, has received a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to study the links between production and perception in speech....
In a landmark achievement, Yale researchers have determined the atomic structure of the ribosome’s large subunit, paving the way for more effective drugs to fight infection. The findings, published in two separate articles in this week’s issue of the...
Lise R. Heginbotham, assistant professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University, has been selected as a 2000 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The award is given to encourage promising junior faculty members at medical schools...
Robert Apfel, the Robert Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University, has been named editor of Acoustics Research Letters Online (ARLO), a new electronic journal that publishes the results of research in acoustics, medical ultrasound,...
Yale researchers have identified how plants adjust their growth patterns to adapt to various lighting environments, paving the way for development of bigger, stronger plants that are more tolerant to pests and pathogens-bacteria and fungus. “Our study...
Yale chemistry lecturer Iona Black has received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) for her contributions to the education of chemistry and chemical engineering students. The...
A new method of calculating oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere suggests that an increase more than 300 million years ago was caused by the rise and spread of trees and other vascular land plants, a Yale study finds. The new plant life produced dead...
Three Yale professors in the faculty of engineering are among 75 researchers in 25 states selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to receive grants totaling $25 million to improve space exploration research. The Yale...