Paul T. Anastas, Professor in the Practice of Green Chemistry, Yale was honored on May 4 by the Council of Scientific Society Presidents with their Leadership in Science award for founding the field of “Green Chemistry.”Known as “The Father of Green...
Peter Wilcox Jones, the James E. English Professor of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his outstanding and continuing contributions in original research.He is among the 72 new...
Joan Steitz of Yale University — a pioneer in the study of RNA — is one of the first two women scientists to be named recipients of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, America’s largest prize in medicine. She will share...
Research by Yale scientists shows that males and females have essentially unisex brains — at least in flies — according to a recent report in Cell designed to identify factors that are responsible for sex differences in behavior.The researchers showed...
A team of astronomers looking at the universe’s distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. The findings appeared in the April 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.These...
New Ways to Harvest Energy Yale seniors will demonstrate two engineering projects on energy harvesting — a sidewalk that generates storable electrical energy as you walk on it and a human-powered iPod...
T. Kyle Vanderlick, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science Yale will create a School of Engineering & Applied Science, President Richard C. Levin announced today.“Re-establishing the School of...
The Science Saturdays program for April 12 will now feature a lecture and demonstration by chemist Kurt Zilm. It will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Davies Auditorium of the Becton Engineering building at 15 Prospect Street.Zilm’s talk and...
A genetic mutation in a gene that is a marker for asthma severity may also play a role in causing the disease, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the University of Chicago report today in the New England Journal of Medicine.“We know from a recent...
Airway nerve cells exposed to chlorine. Bright color indicates excitation of some nerve cells. Inhaling chlorine triggers a nerve receptor that protects healthy people by inducing sneezing, coughing, and...
