Oscillations begun by the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake in December 2004 are providing important information about the composition of the Earth as well as the size and duration of the earthquake, according to a report in the journal Science by an...
Pre–K students are expelled at a rate more than three times that of children in grades K–12, according to a primary study by researchers at Yale on the rate of expulsion in prekindergarten programs serving three– and four–year–olds. Led by Yale Child...
John D. MacMicking, an assistant professor recently recruited to the Section of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale School of Medicine, has been named as a 2005 Searle Scholar and will receive $240,000 during the next three years to support his research...
Competing evolutionary mechanisms influence male genital size in some fish species reflecting the tradeoff between a capacity to attract mates and the ability to quickly evade predators, according to a report by scientists from Yale, Washington and Texas...
Yale Assistant Professor Alison Galvani, in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, will receive a Young Investigators’ Prize from the American Society of Naturalists (ASN). Galvani’s work is in the division of...
Two free symposia co–sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project at Yale and lifeedu.org will explore scientific advances and bioethics of pharmaceutical production and gene confinement in genetically modified plants. “Genetically Modified...
The Community Action to Prevent Chronic Disease (CAPCoD) with support from Oxford Health Alliance, will present a series of global health research workshops May 11–20, hosted by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) at Yale School of...
A ribbon–cutting ceremony for a collaborative Yale–IBM Parallel Computing Facility was held on April 27 in Becton Laboratories at Yale. The ceremony represented the culmination of conversations begun in October of 2001 in the collaboration between IBM...
Elisha Atkins, M.D., professor emeritus of internal medicine/infectious diseases at Yale School of Medicine, and an expert in the mechanism and biological importance of fever, died April 22 at age 84 in Belmont, Massachusetts. Atkins’s research on the...
The authors of a report criticizing the environmental movement for failed leadership on global warming will discuss “Post–Environmentalism: Beyond ‘I Have a Nightmare’ Politics” on Friday, May 6, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium at the Yale School of...