Hee Oh, newly named as the Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematics, focuses her research on Lie groups, dynamics, number theory, Kleinian groups, and hyperbolic geometry.Hee OhA graduate of Seoul National University, Oh earned her Ph.D. from Yale in...
Samuel S. Kortum, newly named as the James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics, focuses his research on international economics, industrial organization, and macroeconomics.Samuel KortumA graduate of Wesleyan University, Kortum earned his Ph.D. from...
“Unveiling the Dark Side of the Universe” is the topic of the next talk in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ In the Company of Scholars series on Tuesday, April 14.Priyamvada Natarajan, professor of astronomy and physics, will present the talk at...
As a child living in a rural area in eastern Tibet, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje recalls a natural environment that was pristine and untarnished by modern development.It was there, he said during his Chubb Fellowship Lecture at Yale...
Can scientists create an invisibility cloak like the one Harry Potter used to sneak around Hogwarts? Can they develop a modern-day fountain of youth? Could Jurassic Park really happen? Three Yale scholars will answer these questions and more in “When...
John Lorsch, director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the National Institutes of Health, present a talk at Yale titled “Developing a More Efficient, Productive, and Sustainable Biomedical Research Enterprise” on Tuesday,...
Yale University has received a $2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance the field of conservation science. The grant supports Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) and funds its Aging Diagnostics...
The dinosaur with an identity crisis is standing on its own four legs again.The venerable Brontosaurus excelsus, that gargantuan, long-necked sauropod that roamed the earth 150 million years ago, has reclaimed a distinct spot in the fossil record. New...