Not many Yale seniors get to answer the ubiquitous question “So, what are you doing after graduation?” with “I’m working as an embedded journalist on an icebreaker oceanographic research vessel in the Arctic Ocean.” But that’s exactly what Alex Kain ‘09...
Jack Harris, an associate professor of physics, has received one of this year’s Young Faculty Awards (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is one of 33 “rising stars” across the country to receive the accolade.DARPA, which...
Nancy A. Moran, the inaugural William H. Fleming, M.D. ’57 Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is an internationally recognized expert on evolution whose research focus is on symbiosis, particularly that between multicellular hosts and microbes...
If you’ve ever been to Hawaii, you probably spent your time enjoying the scenery of the beautiful islands, rather than wondering how they got to be there in the first place. But that’s just what scientists have been trying to figure out for nearly 40...
Lisa D. Pfefferle, newly named as the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Engineering, is an expert in the areas of combustion kinetics and chemical reaction engineering.Pfefferle’s concentration is in catalytically stabilized hydrocarbon fuels and analyzing...
Alanna Schepartz, the Milton Harris ‘29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, has been chosen to present the inaugural Chemical Biology Lectureship by the American Chemical Society (ACS).The lectureship, which is jointly sponsored by the ACS Division of...