Yale University’s telescope high in the Andes Mountains of Chile received a new lease on life recently when Yale agreed to form a consortium with Ohio State University, the University of Lisbon in Portugal, and the National Optical Astronomy...
A one-year pilot program on “Area Studies and the Interaction Between the Local and the Global” is being launched this year by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies YCIAS , thanks to a grant from the Ford Foundation. Yale was one of 30...
A symposium in honor of Kenneth B. Wiberg, the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Yale University, will be held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3-4, in the Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, 225 Prospect St. The event, which is open to the public...
Researchers at Yale University have succeeded for the first time in measuring an electric current flowing through a single organic molecule sandwiched between metal electrodes. The feat could pave the way for a radically new generation of transistors...
Humans evolved in the company of other creatures, and our identity remains rooted in the natural world. No matter how much we may have become urban dwellers, we continue to rely physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually on the quality and...
A seminar series titled “The Yale-New Haven Biotechnology Enterprise Forum” will be held at Yale University beginning with a talk on Oct. 28. The five monthly talks, sponsored by The Biotech Committee of Greater New Haven and the Yale University Office...
Washington, D.C. – A new vision of environmental policy will be the topic of a National Press Club Breakfast on Oct. 22. Leaders of Yale University’s Next Generation Project, a two-year project based at Yale’s Center for Environmental Law and Policy,...
Michael P. Dombeck, chief of the USDA Forest Service since January and former acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, will speak at Yale on the role of the Forest Service in helping private landowners manage non-federal lands. The talk, which...
Peter N. Belhumeur, associate professor of electrical engineering at Yale University, has been awarded a $500,000 Presidential Early Career Award to support his research for the next five years in computer vision, robotics, face recognition, medical...
Susan U. Raymond, policy programs director at the New York Academy of Sciences, will be the next speaker in the Yale-New Haven Biotechnology Enterprise Forum series. Her talk, titled “The Role of Universities in Economic Growth,” will be presented...