When people at cocktail parties used to ask Charles Schmuttenmaer what he did, he would say he was a chemistry professor who worked on transient-photo conductivity in gallium arsenide. “At that point they would generally ask me to pass the chips,” the...
Vision may be something that most of us take for granted, but not Elsa Yan. The assistant professor of chemistry has been studying the molecular basis of vision since she started applying physical chemistry techniques to study molecular biology problems...
For Jessie Papagoda of East Haven, Connecticut, the opening of Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven changed everything.Until last October, Jessie and all cancer patients at Yale had to spend much of their day traveling between several buildings on the...
Yale College 2010 Class Day ceremonies will be held on May 23, and the University Commencement will be on May 24 on the Yale campus.All members of the media must obtain and display Yale media credentials during Class Day (Sunday) and Commencement (Monday...
Thousands of far-flung Yale alumni spanning the globe from Singapore to Maine will be blazing trails, reading to kids, planting trees and painting walls on May 15 during the second annual Yale Day of Service, a designated day for members of the larger...
In a few short months, the Yale University Health Center at 17 Hillhouse Ave. — under its new name, the Yale HEALTH Center — will mark its 40th anniversary in a new patient-oriented facility on 55 Lock St.Administrators are busily planning all the fine...
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs ‘10 and Chris Riederer ‘10 know that a computer game can’t end world hunger, eradicate malaria or reduce child mortality.But the game the two Yale students created to bring attention to these issues did win first place at the U.S....
For most science and engineering students, the term “final exam” tends to conjure up images of caffeine-fueled, late-night cram sessions, frenzied scribbling of equations and scores of memorized theories, laws and figures.But for the students of “...
Vice President and General Counsel Dorothy K. Robinson issued the following statement on the nomination of Susan Carney:We are pleased and proud that President Obama has nominated Deputy General Counsel Susan L. Carney to serve on the U.S. Court of...
Editor to talk about ‘Jonathan Edwards in New Haven’ Kenneth Minkema will deliver a talk, titled “Jonathan Edwards in New Haven,” at the New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave. The talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 18. It is free and the public...