The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies will begin constructing a new home bearing the name of Yale College alumnus Richard Kroon, who recently made a major gift to the school. Kroon, a New Jersey resident who retired in 2001 after 32...
Richard L. Edelson, M.D., Director of Yale Cancer Center, has announced the appointment of Ira Mellman as Scientific Director of the Center. Mellman is Sterling Professor of Cell Biology and Immunobiology, and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology at...
A team of researchers led by Melinda Smith at Yale and Travis Huxman at the University of Arizona report that, from desert to rainforest, during drought conditions, the maximum rain use efficiency (RUEmax), or effective productivity of plant growth per...
The Astronomy Department at Yale University will host 125 astronomers from the USA and 18 countries abroad at its largest conference in nearly three decades, from July 12 to July 16. The meeting, “Helio- and Asteroseismology: Towards a Golden Future,”...
Yale researchers Stephen G. Waxman, M.D. and Jeffery D. Kocsis have received a $4.5 million grant from the Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Service to continue their internationally recognized research training program...
Yale scientists, working with the fruit fly as a model, have discovered how odors are encoded by the olfactory system into the complex messages that are sent to the brain. The study, published in the June 25 issue of Cell, provides new insight into how...
I. Richard Savage, emeritus professor and former chair of the Department of Statistics at Yale and a world-renowned expert in the use of statistics in public affairs, such as AIDS diffusion, DNA fingerprinting, human rights and national defense, died on...
Sidney Altman, Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University has been awarded a three-year, Focused Giving Grant by Johnson & Johnson to support his work on coordinated regulation of the protein subunits of...
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University, was inducted to membership in the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose...
The ability to recognize persons encountered during highly threatening and stressful events is poor in the majority of individuals, according to a Yale researcher. “Contrary to the popular conception that most people would never forget the face of a...