Students from Yale University used the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory to capture a series of still images of asteroid 2002 NY40 on August 15-16, two nights before its close flyby of Earth. These images have been turned into a...
Daniel C. Esty, professor of environmental law and policy at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and clinical professor of law at the Yale Law School, is the recipient of the 2002 American Bar Association Award for Distinguished...
Robert E. Apfel, The Robert E. Higgin Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Yale, died on August 1 at age 59. A Yale professor for over three decades, Apfel had been the chair of the former Council of Engineering, comprising the Departments of...
Superintendents, principals, teachers and program staff from “community schools” - Schools of the 21st Century (21C) - will gather at a Yale University-sponsored national conference on July 15 - 17 to learn from an exciting mix of experts in the field of...
The Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has been awarded the international environmental Blue Planet Prize by the Tokyo-based Asahi Glass Foundation. The prestigious prize has been awarded annually since 1992 to two...
Yale President Richard C. Levin has appointed biodiversity expert Michael J. Donoghue as the director of the University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. Donoghue, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and chair of...
Joan A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, is the winner of the 2002 Lewis S. Rosentiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research. The award is presented annually to scientists for recent discoveries of...
Yale Chemistry Professor David Austin has received a $100,000 research award from the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance to study tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a genetic disorder that leads to tumor growth in multiple organs, including the brain, kidneys,...
Using a microscopic grain of superconducting aluminum, a researcher who is now at Yale and his colleagues at CEA-Saclay Laboratories in France, have constructed an “artificial atom” that can be used as a quantum bit, an essential component for the...
Using a microscopic grain of superconducting aluminum, a researcher who is now at Yale and his colleagues at CEA-Saclay Laboratories in France, have constructed an “artificial atom” that can be used as a quantum bit, an essential component for the...