When figuring the cost of raising a child to adulthood, most parents think in terms of ballet slippers, baseball gloves, and college tuition. Two Yale economists have taken the concept a step further by figuring the lifetime cost to society of each...
Many frog and other amphibian species throughout the world appear to be experiencing declining populations, with several species already extinct and others showing alarming rates of deformities. No single cause has been identified. Some scientists...
Donald Hey, director of Wetlands Research Inc. and senior vice president of The Wetlands Initiative Inc., both in Chicago, Ill., will be the next speaker in the semester-long series “The Restoration Agenda: Water!” presented by the School of Forestry and...
Jonathan Gorham, managing partner of Gorham Associates, will be the next speaker in the Yale-New Haven Biotechnology Enterprise Forum series. His talk, titled “University Based Technology Incubators and Venture Funds,” will be presented Tuesday, March 3...
The Goizueta Foundation has announced a grant of $2.5 million to Yale University to endow a senior professorship in chemical engineering to be known as the “Roberto C. Goizueta Chair in Chemical Engineering.” The grant also will provide an endowed...
George Gann, director of the Institute for Regional Conservation and president of Ecohorizons Inc., will be the next speaker in the semester-long series “The Restoration Agenda: Water!” presented by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His...
About 1,200 high school juniors from 45 towns in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island are meeting at Yale University each Saturday through April 4 for the “Frontiers of Science and Engineering 1998” lecture series. Topics will cover everything from...
What: 1998 New Haven City-Wide Science Fair, sponsored by Yale University and Olin Corporation’s Metals Research Labs in New Haven, in partnership with the New Haven Public Schools and the Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program CPEP. This year, Bayer...
In research funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA , Yale mechanical engineers Marshall B. Long and Mitchell D. Smooke are probing the mysteries of a methane flame in an environment that simulates the microgravity conditions of...
John Manley, Minister of Industry for Canada, will lecture on “Canada’s Science and Technology Strategy: Constructing a Smart, Comparative Advantage” on Thursday, March 26, at 4:30 p.m. in Davies Auditorium, Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center...