A film and lecture series on globalization and the environment that will explore the differences in the way people in the northern and southern hemispheres view conservation and the appropriate way to manage natural resources and governance will...
“Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas,” the largest exhibition on the Incas ever assembled in the United States, will open at the Peabody Museum January 26. The exhibit is one of the largest undertakings in the museum’s history. It is in...
Consumers debating which commercial weight-loss program to follow want to know how much weight those following the diet have lost, yet such information is often not readily available, according to researchers at Yale University and the University of...
Xing-Wang Deng, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, is the recipient of the 2003 Kumho Science International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. Deng, who is also director of the Peking-Yale Center for Plant...
The Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics, which was established last year with an investment of over $200 million from the University, has announced its first round of pilot grants to members of the faculty. These grants will provide pilot funding...
A revised college admissions test that measures creative and practical skills as well as memory and analytical ability has succeeded in its first round of testing with college students, according to the lead investigator at Yale. “We did better at...
John P. Trinkaus, professor emeritus and senior research scientist in molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale University, died on February 8 at age 84. Author of the classic book “Cells into Organs: The Forces that Shape the Embryo,”...
World-renowned physicist, chemist and mathematician J. Willard Gibbs will be honored with a symposium at Yale on Friday, February 28 from 1 to 5 p.m. in Davies Auditorium,15 Prospect St. The event honors Gibbs’ most important work at the 100th...
Two Yale professors are among 77 new members and nine foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions that can be accorded an American scientist or engineer. Edward H. Kaplan, the William N...
The 9th Olin-Yale-Bayer Annual Science Fair, set for March 11 at Yale University’s Commons Dining Hall, corner of Grove and College streets, is dedicated to the memory of Robert Apfel, professor of mechanical engineering and former chair of the Yale...