Wangari Maathai of Kenya, an internationally recognized environmental leader and human rights advocate, has joined the faculty of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies this spring as the Dorothy McCluskey Visiting Fellow for...
Prominent scholars and activists from around the country will discuss environmental justice in 11 lectures this spring as part of the seventh annual Restoration Agenda Lecture Series hosted by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The...
Note: Press session to be held at the World Economic Forum Monday, February 4 at 7:30 am, followed by a press conference in the Inter-Continental Hotel, 111 East 48th St. at Lexington Ave, at 9:00am. Report and data are available for download at www....
Yale’s Faculty of Engineering has received a $3.5 million grant to endow a professorship and a scholarship fund. The incumbent of the newly endowed chair will be known as The Goizueta Foundation Senior Faculty Chair in Chemical Engineering, and the new...
A slow dance lasting up to10 million years between a super-massive black hole and a smaller one culminates in a violent outflow of energy, possibly powering the bright light known as a quasar, a Yale researcher and collaborator have found. “Ours is the...
Yale University’s Faculty of Engineering will mark the beginning of its sesquicentennial celebration with a monthly distinguished lecture series, the first of which features renowned French physicist and new Yale professor Michel Devoret, who will...
Erica Woronowicz, a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at Yale University, has been selected in a national competition to attend the 52nd Annual Meeting of Nobel Laureates and chemistry students this summer in Lindau, Germany. She is being sponsored by the U....
The global leadership of Connecticut business in the fuel cell field will be showcased in a panel discussion on, “Fuel Cells: Business Strategies of Connecticut’s Industry Leaders,” on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 4 p.m. at the Yale School of Forestry &...
The doubling of the moisture content in the stratosphere over the last 50 years was caused, at least in part, by tropical biomass burning, a Yale researcher has concluded from examining satellite weather data. Tropical biomass burning is any burning of...
Two Yale professors are among 74 new members elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions that can be accorded an engineer in the United States. The two professors are A. Stephen Morse, professor of...