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...
A Yale University science faculty member is available for comment about the solar storm, which is expected to send particles to Earth at noontime today. Sabatino Sofia, professor of astronomy and director of Yale’s Center for Solar & Space Research,...
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...
In the release “Yale Receives $4.9 Million Grant for International Genome Study” that was sent this morning, please add the following sentence at the beginning of the 6th paragragh, beginning NHGRI Director …. The National Human Genome Research...
An analysis of the smallest microbial genome ever sequenced supports theories that life may have originated in a hot and fiery primeval earth, according to Yale researchers and collaborators. N. equitans defines a new kingdom, Nanoarchaeota in the...
Yale researchers are taking part in an ambitious, $36 million, three-year pilot study that will test efficient, high-throughput methods for identifying, locating and fully analyzing all of the functional elements contained in a set of DNA target regions...
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...