In a recognition of the excellence of scientific inquiry in Yale’s chemistry department, three Yale professors have been named recipients of national 2012 awards from the American Chemical Society.“These awards from the American Chemical Society inspire...
A $25,000 pilot award from the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI) to develop a device that enables surgery to be performed with a single or even no external incision has been leveraged into nearly a million dollars in funding. The device, based...
Evolution adds and subtracts, and nowhere is this math more evident than in vertebrates, which are programmed to have five digits on each limb. But many species do not. Snakes, of course, have no digits, and birds have three.Yale scientists now have a...
A 60-foot mural painted by the late American Expressionist artist Gregory Etchison in honor of victims of the 9/11 tragedy is on display at Yale Divinity School (YDS) this month.According to the organizers of the display, “The mural, titled ‘The Day,’...
The communities of Yale and New Haven will join together to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11/01, and the University has also organized two exhibitions related to the tragic events of that day.Among the activities planned by Yale, local...
For those who left campus after Commencement, here’s a roundup of some of the stories you may have missed. Look for other summer headlines in the Yale Daily Bulletin’s archive.GIFTS AND GRANTSYale Tomorrow Campaign raises $3.881 billionLandmark gift...
Alanna Schepartz, the Milton Harris ‘29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, has been named director of the Chemical Biology Institute at the West Campus. Schepartz was chair of the faculty advisory committee that convened to help define and develop the...
When it comes to mountaineering, Yale professor Joseph G. Manning is a self-described “newbie.” But this summer, each step he’s taken toward a mountain summit has helped prepare him for a climb in September that he hopes to remember for the rest of his...
An interfaith service, candlelight vigil and exhibit of 9.11.11 reflections are among the ways the University is marking the event.All those who watched with horror the unfolding of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and those for whom the day is only a dim...