Twenty-five years ago, highly visible pollution from the largest factories mobilized Americans to lobby for sweeping environmental reforms. Contaminated rivers like Ohio’s Cuyahoga River – so saturated with pollutants that it caught fire – demanded...
Daniel C. Esty, Yale professor of environmental law and policy and a former E.P.A climate-change negotiator, is available for comments on developments at the Kyoto Climate Change Negotiations, a conference in Japan being attended this week by...
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States, made its debut today by awarding grants totaling $18.6 million to support the environment, medical research and the performing arts – including a $...
87 percent of people ages 12 to 34 feel invulnerable to AIDS virus; more than half say media messages on health risks are inadequate New Haven, CT – Nearly 9 out of 10 young people (87 percent) believe they are invulnerable to getting the AIDS virus,...
1. Smaller, Faster, Cheaper Computers Likely with Organic Transistors 2. U.S. Youths Feel Invulnerable to AIDS, New MTV-Yale Study Reveals 3. “Not By Chance” Report Aims at Improving Child Care by Year 2010 4. Next Generation of Environmental...
Chemical physicist and Yale alumnus John C. Tully, a Guilford resident, has been named the Arthur T. Kemp Professor of Chemistry by vote of the Yale Corporation. Tully, who came to Yale in 1996 after a 26-year career at Bell Laboratories, holds a joint...
Mark Edwards, managing director at Recombinant Capital Inc. ReCap , a San Francisco-based consulting firm specializing in biotechnology business alliances, will speak on “Trends in Biotechnology Financing” on Tuesday, Jan. 27, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The...
Martin Karplus, a noted Harvard professor who specializes in theoretical chemistry and biochemistry, will present three lectures Jan. 19-21 on “Proteins: The Fourth Dimension” as part of the Silliman Memorial Lectures series sponsored by Yale University...
The public is invited to the semester-long Distinguished Lecturer lunch time series titled “The Restoration Agenda: Water!” at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES). Topics will include revitalization of urban and rural...
Joseph B. Costello, vice chairman of Knowledge Universe Inc. and a leading developer of electronic design automation software, will present the next Faculty of Engineering Sheffield Fellowship Lecture at Yale University. Titled “The Golden Age of...