Brian Penprase, a Pomona College astronomer, is a frequent presence at Yale these days, and not chiefly at the observatory.Brian Penprase says astronomers make good university leaders because they “are used to contemplating the big picture.”As a 2012-2013...
Jan Gruber’s travels through the academy in Europe and Asia have required the physicist-turned-biochemist to adapt to a variety of scholastic disciplines, pedagogies, and cultures. In mid-July, he found himself ensconced in a hilltop mansion on Yale...
Yale computer scientist Daniel Spielman has been named to the inaugural class of Simons Investigators, providing him and Yale’s Department of Computer Science with $660,000 over five years for curiosity-driven research.A potential five-year renewal could...