The revolutionary ideas and discoveries of Charles Darwin — and their legacy in current research — are explored in a new exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.Titled “Darwin: 150 Years of Evolutionary Thinking,” the exhibition is part...
Yale researcher Professor Scott Strobel has been named a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow by the Department of Defense (DOD) in recognition of his efforts to convert chemical byproducts of a Patagonian fungus into an alternate fuel...
Frank Keefe, the Robert J.H. Kiphuth Director of Swimming, who has guided the Yale men’s and women’s swimming teams to 473 wins, will retire at the conclusion of the 2009-2010 season.Keefe, who was inducted into the American Swimming Coaches Association...
Translating basic research into new technologies that advance our health and welfare has been part of Yale’s “DNA” for centuries, and the pace of innovation at the University continues to accelerate dramatically. Today’s Yale inventors are helping to lead...
The Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals at Yale Law School will be called to order at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, May 4, in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St.Students will compete in the Thurman Arnold Prize Finals of the competition. The event is...
“Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” — so goes the catch line of a 1989 infomercial for a product designed as a simple alert system to aid people living alone.The ad, though amateurish, reminds the viewer of what it could be like to be old, infirm and...
Olympic hopefuls flexed their brains, rather than their brawn, when Yale’s Department of Chemistry hosted tryouts for this year’s national Chemistry Olympiad on April 25.The annual competition, which has been sponsored by the American Chemical Society...
Thanks to a partnership between Yale student entrepreneurs and the United Way of Greater New Haven, local residents now have a way of doing two good deeds - reducing environmental waste and enhancing early childhood education - with one simple act.TwigTek...
Goaltender Alec Richards, whose record-breaking 2008-2009 season helped the Yale men’s hockey team to its best-ever campaign, has been signed by the National Hockey League Chicago Blackhawks to a two-year, entry-level contract. He will join the squad next...
If you think of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library as a tomb for old “dead” books where only the most somber of scholars conduct research, curators Nancy Kuhl and Timothy Young hope a visit to their “Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities” might make...