Three women astronauts will discuss their work in a panel discussion titled “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women Pioneers in Space” on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 5:15 p.m. in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. The panelists will include...
Yale researchers are building a community atlas that provides the expression patterns of every gene in every cell type in rice – one of the first cereals cultivated on earth, and the principal food source for half of the world’s population. The four-...
Yale Provost Susan Hockfield announced Friday, November 7, 2003 that Pfizer Inc. will fund a graduate fellowship in neuroscience in honor of Patricia Goldman-Rakic, who died last July. Goldman-Rakic was Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurobiology at the...
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Yale’s Child Study Center and Department of Computer Science have received a new grant from the Doris Duke Foundation to advance autism research. They are planning to use a humanoid robot as an interactive...
People vote on an issue based on the facts and their ideology, or personal beliefs, but they disregard both the facts and their personal beliefs when they are aware of their political party’s position, according to a Yale study. Moreover, people are not...
Yale University, state and New Haven officials and Fuel Cell Energy, Inc. will dedicate Connecticut’s first high-efficiency Direct Fuel Cell power plant at Yale on Wednesday, December 3, at noon. Fuel cells are environmentally friendly, quiet and...
Yale Chemistry Professor William Jorgensen is the new editor of the Journal of Chemical Information & Computer Science (JCIS), published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society. Jorgensen, a computer methods...