A major volcanic eruption about 100,000 years ago has been recorded in the genes of giant Galapagos tortoises whose ancestors survived the eruption, Yale researchers report in a recent issue of Science. The researchers analyzed a tortoise population...
A leading businessman from Brazil and a prominent legal scholar from Singapore will become visiting faculty at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 2003-04. “Having visiting faculty from abroad is now a tradition at the school,”...
Andrew Revkin, environment reporter for The New York Times, will discuss, “The Daily Planet: Why the Media Have Trouble Covering the Biggest Story in the World – The World Itself” on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall at the...
To encourage the development and use of alternative energy sources, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) has purchased $3,500 of “renewable energy certificates,” ensuring that 20 percent of the school’s electricity is...
Twelve-month-old infants can use previous observations as a basis to understand new interactions, although five-month-olds cannot, according to a Yale study. “This finding shows not only that one-year-old infants are paying attention to the actions of...
Universities are in a unique position to draft licensing and patent strategies for development of life-saving medicines and technologies that benefit low-and middle-income countries, according to an editorial by faculty and students working at the Yale...
Experts in energy and the environment and public health and the environment have joined the faculty of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Arnulf Grubler, professor in the field of energy and technology and a native of Austria,...
The John Lee, the fastest and lightest solar car ever built by Yale’s Team Lux, which runs at 65 mph under full sunlight using less power than a hairdryer, will race in its first international competition in May 2004 at the Phaethon Solar Car Race in...
Two of Yale Engineering’s newest female faculty, Erin Lavik and Ainissa Ramirez, have been named to the 2003 list of the world’s 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s Magazine of Innovation. The Technology Review 100 (TR100), chosen by...
Yale geophysicists may have unraveled one of the great, unsolved mysteries about the Earth’s interior – why the mantle appears both well mixed and unmixed at the same time. The Earth’s mantle is the 1,800-mile thick layer of rock between the crust and...