The National Cancer Institute recently awarded a five-year, $7.5 million program project grant to investigators at the Yale School of Medicine to continue studies on the role of viruses and mutant cellular proteins in tumorigenic transformation of cells...
The Northeastern section of the American Chemical Society recently announced Professor Martin Saunders, of the Department of Chemistry at Yale University as the 2005 recipient of the James Flack Norris Award for physical organic chemistry. The award,...
Tso-Ping (T.P.) Ma, Raymond John Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University will receive the 2005 Andrew S. Grove Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his...
Two Yale engineers are among 86 of the nation’s brightest young engineers selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 10th annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium from September 9-11. Ainissa Ramirez and Erin Lavik will...
A report in the journal Nature describes the first experiment in which a single photon is coherently coupled to a single superconducting qubit (quantum bit or “artificial atom”). This represents a new paradigm in which quantum optics experiments can...
For people who say they never believe what they read in the newspapers, a Yale researcher found the reality is something different. In two studies published in the journal Psychological Science, Yale Ph.D. candidate Victoria Brescoll and Marianne...
A celebration marking two watershed events in the history of the discipline of psychology at Yale will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, September 3, 2004, with remarks from several officials, including Yale President Richard C. Levin. The convocation will be...
Mathematician Walter Feit, a Yale professor for 40 years, died at age 73 after a long illness on July 29, 2004 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, CT. Professor Feit was a pure mathematician whose contributions provided fundamental infrastructure...
Yale mathematician Shizuo Kakutani, who invented a tool known as the Kakutani skyscraper that was used to organize random processes such as coin flipping, died this week in New Haven. He was 92. Kakutani, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at...
Research led by Anna Marie Pyle, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University reveals how a protein from Hepatitis C (HCV) unwinds RNA, potentially allowing it be copied. The work published in the journal Nature focuses on an...