James Dyson with “the Ball,” that steers his vacuum cleaner. Widely honored design engineer James Dyson, Chairman and Founder of Dyson, will speak at Yale on April 27 and sponsor a four-hour design charrette, or hands-on workshop,...
The Yale Science & Engineering Association, Inc. (YSEA) will hold its 2006 Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner on April 26 in the President’s Room of Woolsey Hall on the Yale campus.Since its founding in 1914, one of YSEA’s principal missions has been to...
John Carlson Yale scientists have systematically plotted the responses of the entire Drosophila (fruit fly) olfactory system, providing the first multi-dimensional map of the range of odorants sensed and the regions of the brain that are...
Donald M. Engelman Scientists at Yale and the University of Rhode Island report the development of a peptide that can specifically and directly deliver molecules to the inside of cells like a nanosyringe, creating a new tool for drug...
Girls In Engineering 2006 The Faculty of Engineering at Yale will host a “Girls in Engineering Day” on Tuesday, April 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Dunham Laboratory at 10 Hillhouse Ave.Eighty middle-school students and their...
Scott Strobel The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Scott Strobel, professor and newly appointed chair of the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale as one of its new HHMI Professors chosen for their...
Joan A. Steitz The 2006 Gairdner International Awards, among the most prestigious awards in science, will be presented to two Yale biologists and three other scientists for their breakthrough research on RNAs, cell motility and hormones...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced that the Yale Center for International and Area Studies is henceforth to be known as the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, in recognition of a generous...
Yale students more than met the University’s challenge to reduce energy use in their residential colleges. In an effort to raise awareness and begin the process of curbing emissions, the University challenged students to reduce energy use in their...
Abbas Amanat, professor of history and former chair of the Council on Middle East Studies at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, has been selected as a Carnegie Scholar for 2006.Amanat will explore “Defying Islamic Conformity: Skeptics,...