In the Greek myth of Phaethon, the chariot of the Sun inadvertently drives too close to the Earth, creating the Sahara desert with its scorching heat. Whether that myth is based in some small part on observations of a “superflare” emanating from the Sun...
Industrial ecology professor Thomas E. Graedel of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies recently was appointed chair of the Grand Challenges in Environmental Sciences Committee by the National Academy of Sciences. The committee’s role is...
Yale University recently was ranked fourth among America’s top research universities when “citation impact” was used to assess scientific performance. Citation impact was measured by calculating the average number of times an institution’s published...
The public is invited to the semester-long Distinguished Lecturer lunchtime series titled “The Restoration Agenda: Focus on Plants” at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES), now underway. Topics include naturalistic...
Pierre Hohenberg, deputy provost for physical sciences and engineering at Yale University, has been selected to receive the 1999 Max Planck Medaille, the most prestigious prize given by the German Physical Society for theoretical physics. The first...
Professor Daniel C. Esty, an expert in environmental law and policy at the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, has been named a 1999 World Economic Forum “Global Leader for Tomorrow.” He is among 100 individuals...
The public is invited to the semester-long Distinguished Lecturer lunchtime series titled “The Restoration Agenda: Focus on Plants” at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES), now underway. The next speaker is Jon Kusler,...
Laszlo Lovasz, the William K. Lanman Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Yale University, has been named as a co-recipient of the 1999 Wolf Prize, Israel’s most prestigious international award. The Wolf Prize is presented each year by the...
John Ostrom, the Yale paleontologist who helped give wing to the theory that birds are the direct descendants of dinosaurs, will be honored at an international symposium titled “New Perspectives on the Origin and Early Evolution of Birds” on Saturday...
The next speaker in the semester-long Distinguished Lecturer lunchtime series “The Restoration Agenda: Focus on Plants” is JoAnn Burkholder, professor of aquatic botany and marine sciences at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Her talk on...