Yale President Richard C. Levin Tuesday named biochemist and innovative educator Scott Strobel as vice-president of West Campus Planning and Program Development, to oversee the second phase of growth at Yale’s 136-acre facility in West Haven.Strobel will...
Yale University’s Nancy Moran this week received the International Prize for Biology from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.The William H. Fleming Professor of Biology received the award, which commemorates the 60-year reign of Emperor...
Web users around the globe will be able to help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planets thanks to a new online citizen science project called Planet Hunters that launches Dec. 16. at www.planethunters.org.Planet Hunters, which is...
David Evans, professor of geology and geophysics, has been named a Faculty Finalist in the New York Academy of Sciences’ 2010 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.The awards, which are currently in their fourth year, recognize “highly innovative,...
Sandwiched between the liquid iron outer core and the thin rocky crust we live on, the Earth’s mantle is more than 1,800 miles thick, and comprises more than three-quarters of the planet’s volume and nearly two-thirds of its mass. Yet surprisingly,...
For some time after Yale University purchased the 136 acres of office buildings, streams and woodlands that comprised the former Bayer Pharmaceutical complex in 2007, the primary occupants of West Campus were turkey, geese, deer and coyotes.That is no...
Two Yale graduate students have been chosen as the first recipients of a new fellowship honoring the memory of graduate student Annie Le.The fellowship, established with an initial gift from Yale of $100,000, will benefit doctoral students in the...
Yale astronomer C. Megan Urry has won the annual Women in Space Science Award, given by the Women’s Board of the Adler Planetarium to “an outstanding woman in space science who exemplifies the characteristics that lead to success academically and in the...
Rong Fan arrived at Yale a mere five months ago, but his plans to revolutionize diagnostic testing are already gaining attention. The assistant professor of biomedical engineering has been awarded a Grand Challenges Explorations grant to improve the way...
Mitchell D. Smooke, the Strathcona Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, has been named a 2010 fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).SIAM is an international community of over 13,000 individual members,...