At the point that children utter their first words, a complex set of conceptual, social and linguistic mental capacities are at work, Yale researcher Paul Bloom reports in his new book, “How Children Learn the Meanings of Words.” “In addition to...
Thomas E. Golden, ‘51 B.E., ‘52 M.Eng., president of the Darien-based Thomas E. Golden Realty Co. and its affiliates, has endowed the Thomas E. Golden Professorship in Engineering at Yale University. President Richard Levin said the gift fills an...
Yale University and the University of Chile will sign an agreement November 10 to collaborate in the training of Chilean students in astronomy and astrophysics. The agreement also provides for the two institutions to have joint access to prime...
Two Yale professors with joint appointments at the Peabody Museum of Natural History have been awarded $900,000 to reform science education in New Haven public schools. The grant from the National Institutes of Health, which is the largest in the museum...
Yale has established a joint center for research and training in plant biology with China’s Peking University that will actively foster collaborative research among scientists at the two universities and will train the next generation of international...
Edward R. Tufte, professor emeritus of political science, computer science and statistics and senior critic of graphic design at Yale, will give a lecture titled “Visual Explanations” on November 15 at 4 p.m. in the Yale Law School auditorium, 127 Wall...
Scholars from the United States and Europe will present evidence that the universe and human life are intelligently designed in a three-day symposium taking place Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 2-4. During the event, titled “Science and Evidence for Design in...
Yale University has licensed to Axon Instruments, Inc., a revolutionary technology for screening new drugs that act on cell-membrane ion channels and transporters. Ion channel activity is important for studying many medical disorders, among them migraine...
A new minor planet measuring about 400 miles in diameter and located between Neptune and Pluto in the outer rim of the solar system has been found by Yale astronomers. Officially named 2000 EB173, the planet was discovered using a powerful telescope...
Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated institution for speech research, has received a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to study the links between production and perception in speech....