Olympic hopefuls flexed their brains, rather than their brawn, when Yale’s Department of Chemistry hosted tryouts for this year’s national Chemistry Olympiad on April 25.The annual competition, which has been sponsored by the American Chemical Society...
Eleven Yale faculty members have been elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) in recognition of their contributions to the advancement of science.To be elected to the academy, scientists and engineers must achieve distinction...
David M. Smith, the Morris K. Jessup Professor Emeritus of Silviculture at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), died on March 7 at the Whitney Center in Hamden. He was 87.After earning his Master of Forestry in 1946 from F&ES...
Making its home near extreme temperatures of thermal vents on the ocean floor, the organism Methanopyrus kandleri harbors a molecular secret that intrigues evolutionary biologists and even HIV researchers.It turns out that the extremophile M. kandleri...
Yale University Professor Scott Strobel has been named a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow by the Department of Defense in recognition of his efforts to convert chemical byproducts of a Patagonian fungus into an alternate fuel...
President Richard C. Levin is among 20 of the nation’s distinguished scientists, engineers and educators who have been selected by President Barack Obama to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The Frederick...
Yale University’s G. Shirleen Roeder, a world expert on the genetic shuffling which takes place during the formation of sex cells, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed upon a scientist in the United States....
Best-selling author Dava Sobel will give a public talk on April 28 at Yale to kick off a special astronomy exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book Library. The lecture and exhibition are part of the Department of Astronomy’s year-long series of events to...
Yale researchers have demonstrated silicon-based nanocantilevers, smaller than the wavelength of light, that operate on photonic principles eliminating the need for electric transducers and expensive laser setups. The work is reported in an April 26...
Scientists dream of the day when they can create designer proteins capable of inhibiting harmful interactions, modifying substrates or guiding cellular machines to where they are needed within the body. Though that dream may be far down the road, Yale...