Yale Professor John Carlson is one of five recipients of this year’s McKnight Investigator Award, which is granted by The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience to gifted, mid-career scientists. Carlson, a professor in the Department of Molecular,...
In the largest genome project of its kind to date, Yale scientists have succeeded in fully characterizing the function of the yeast gene, furthering understanding of how human cells work. “While the human genome project so far has focused on the...
Yale Law Professor Dan Esty is hosting a series of “trade and environment” policy briefings November 29 through December 3 at the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Seattle, Wash. “Globalization offers great promise, but only if other...
Treatment for obsessive thinking and compulsive behavior is now available in a group setting at Yale psychological services. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) involves excessive worry about being harmed in some way. People with the disorder may...
Yale and Rice University scientists have demonstrated molecular devices that act as reversible electronic switches, making it possible to build smaller computers that are less expensive. The vast improvements and reduced cost seen in computers and...
A Yale research team has succeeded for the first time in turning supercritical carbon dioxide, which is CO2 under tremendous pressure, into gel form. The discovery could have widespread application in a number of industries, including oil drilling, in...
Yale and Rice University scientists have demonstrated molecular devices that act as reversible electronic switches, making it possible to build smaller computers that are less expensive. The vast improvements and reduced cost seen in computers and...
The answer to how RNA polymerase stays still and moves at the same time while beginning its job of copying DNA into RNA is, according to a Yale scientist: “scrunching.” Using x-ray crystallography, Professor Thomas Steitz, the Eugene Higgins Professor...
Michael J. Donoghue, an expert in biodiversity at Harvard University, has been named the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor in Yale’s burgeoning Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB). Donoghue joins the department at a time of growth in areas...
The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies is hosting a symposium on Friday, November 12 to mark the 20th anniversary of a watershed climate report by the National Academy of Sciences that first identified the human contribution to global...