Alanna Schepartz, the Milton Harris ‘29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry at Yale, has been awarded the 2008-2009 Frank H. Westheimer Prize, Harvard has announced. Established in 2002 in honor of Harvard chemist Frank Westheimer, the prize is awarded annually...
Yale researchers have harnessed the power of 21st century computing to confirm an idea first proposed in 1916 — that plants with rapid reproductive cycles evolve faster. Their findings appear in the October 3rd edition of Science. “Our study highlights...
Mark Hochstrasser, the newly named Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, is engaged in research at the crossroads of biochemistry and genetics aimed at understanding at a molecular level how specific eukaryotic proteins are...
Scott A. Strobel, the newly appointed Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, is an expert on the function of RNA.His laboratory employs such technologies as organic synthesis and X-ray crystallography to study reactions...
The American Physical Society (APS) has chosen two Yale physicists to receive two of its prestigious annual awards.Ramamurti Shankar, the John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics, is the 2009 winner of the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, “awarded for...
The Yale-CURE BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series opens its fall schedule with a program on Humacyte, Inc. on Thursday, October 16, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Anlyan Center Auditorium, 300 Cedar Street. The series is organized by the Yale Office of Cooperative...
Astronomers studying new images of a nearby galaxy cluster have found evidence that high-speed collisions between large elliptical galaxies may prevent new stars from forming, according to a paper to be published in a November 2008 issue of The...
Researchers at Yale University have created a blueprint for artificial cells that are more powerful and efficient than the natural cells they mimic and could one day be used to power tiny medical implants. The scientists began with the question of whether...
Yale alumnus Michael J. Rooks joined the Yale Institute of Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering (YINQE) on Oct. 1 as associate director for research facilities.In his new post, Rooks will be responsible for working with Yale faculty in the planning,...
Yale scientists have created nanowire sensors coupled with simple microprocessor electronics that are both sensitive and specific enough to be used for point-of-care (POC) disease detection, according to a report in Nano Letters. The sensors use...