A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Yale’s Child Study Center and Department of Computer Science have received a new grant from the Doris Duke Foundation to advance autism research. They are planning to use a humanoid robot as an interactive...
Three women astronauts will discuss their work in a panel discussion titled “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women Pioneers in Space” on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 5:15 p.m. in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. The panelists will include...
An exhibit in the rotunda of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library will commemorate the Centennial of the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel in October 1903. The display opens on November 6 to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded investigators in the Computer Science Department at Yale University $3.9 million to study the problems of preserving privacy of sensitive information while permitting large scale data searching and...
In a self-selecting poll of fulltime faculty and researchers, conducted by “The Scientist” magazine, Yale ranked third in “Best Places to Work in Academia”. Relationships with colleagues and the quality physical and financial resources were among the...
By changing the optical properties of the semiconductor material gallium arsenide (GaAs), a Yale researcher has found a faster and cheaper way to create crystals for optical emitters, which have potential uses in fiber optic cables to carry television...
Peter Schwartz, an internationally renowned futurist and co-founder and chair of the Global Business Network, will discuss “Inevitable Surprises: Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence” on Friday, October 24, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall,...
Timothy Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation and former United States Senator from Colorado, will discuss “Oil Dependence, Foreign Policy and the Need for a New Energy Policy” on Thursday, October 23, at 4 p.m. in the Yale Law School...
A major volcanic eruption about 100,000 years ago has been recorded in the genes of giant Galapagos tortoises whose ancestors survived the eruption, Yale researchers report in a recent issue of Science. The researchers analyzed a tortoise population...
A leading businessman from Brazil and a prominent legal scholar from Singapore will become visiting faculty at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 2003-04. “Having visiting faculty from abroad is now a tradition at the school,”...