The Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University has launched a new website aimed at helping parents navigate through the complex issues of school food. The new website, Rudd SPARK — Supporting Parent Advocates with Resources and Knowledge...
Arthur L. Horwich of the Yale School of Medicine was named co-winner of the prestigious 2011 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his discoveries of how proteins form their complex shapes, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced Monday....
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $13 million grant to Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University to establish a Center of Excellence for Materials Research and Innovation also known as a Materials Research Science and...
In a recognition of the excellence of scientific inquiry in Yale’s chemistry department, three Yale professors have been named recipients of national 2012 awards from the American Chemical Society.“These awards from the American Chemical Society inspire...
Evolution adds and subtracts, and nowhere is this math more evident than in vertebrates, which are programmed to have five digits on each limb. But many species do not. Snakes, of course, have no digits, and birds have three.Yale scientists now have a...
Alanna Schepartz, the Milton Harris ‘29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, has been named director of the Chemical Biology Institute at the West Campus. Schepartz was chair of the faculty advisory committee that convened to help define and develop the...
Yale University researchers have identified a key genetic gear that keeps the circadian clock of plants ticking, a finding that could have broad implications for global agriculture.The research appears in the Sept. 2 issue of the journal Molecular Cell.“...