Yale students will unveil their new solar-powered car Thursday, April 22nd at noon on Beinecke Plaza of the Yale campus, adjacent to Wall Street. The car, “Lux Perpetua,” will compete in Sunrayce ‘99, a bi-yearly contest for solar cars built by college...
Yale University will announce plans Wednesday, May 12, to construct an Environmental Sciences Facility adjacent to the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Yale President Richard C. Levin, Provost Alison Richard, Edward P. Bass of the Yale College Class...
Yale University today held a groundbreaking ceremony for a building to support collaborative research and teaching in all the environmental sciences, and to house significant portions of the University’s natural history collections. The Environmental...
Yale scientists have crossed an important threshold in their effort to determine the positions of atoms in the ribosome–which will not only lead to an improved understanding of protein synthesis, but which could also have medical implications. The Yale...
Yale research of a partial ancient ape skeleton from 12 to 15 million years ago has yielded a new genus called Equatorius, providing evidence that the more likely ancestor of great apes and humans is a species called Kenyapithecus wickeri. The origin of...
A Yale researcher has helped increase our understanding of telomerase, an enzyme that makes cancer cells grow, which could lead to new ways to attack cancer with chemotherapy. The researcher, Professor Sandra L. Wolin, says the discovery is significant...
Psychology Professor Allan R. Wagner is a recipient of this year’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association for “outstanding contributions” to the study of conditioning and behavior theory. Wagner is one of...
Yale today received a $100,000 grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., to support STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) – a program to promote academic success in the sciences among women, minorities and the physically...
New findings by Yale researchers bring us one step closer to understanding why we have fleeting memories of some events, yet remember other incidents for a lifetime. In a study published Friday in the journal Science, Professor Thomas Carew and co-...
A Yale professor has been awarded a $150,000 grant to study the use of the natural product palau’amine, which was isolated from a marine sponge found in the West Pacific, as a potential chemotherapeutic agent. Chemistry Professor David Austin said the...