Yale University Provost Susan Hockfield recently announced the appointments of two deputy provosts to help shape and implement the academic, administrative and budgetary policies of the University. Hockfield named Barbara Shailor, currently the director...
Two Yale School of Medicine professors, Linda Bartoshuk, who studies taste receptors, and Arthur Horwich, M.D., who studies protein folding in the cell, are among new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to membership in the...
Four Yale University professors were recently elected Fellows to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences class of 2003. The newly-elected Fellows are Michel H. Devoret, professor of physics and applied physics; Donald P. Green, A. Whitney Griswold...
The following information was inadvertently omitted from the full release distributed on May 9, 2003. Please incorporate the addendum into your story. Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish and...
Tonight the Earth, Sun and Moon will all come into a common line and the moon will pass through the Earth’s shadow, an event known as a lunar eclipse, according to M. Sean O’Brien, associate research scientist in Yale’s Department of Astronomy. Lunar...
An executive education program that will help Chinese leaders understand and meet the challenges of sustainable development has been established by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) and the Department of Environmental...
Marc Stern, a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, has been named a Canon National Parks Science Scholar for his research on the relationship between national parks and people who live near them. Stern was one...
Yale University School of Medicine Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., and Yale-New Haven Hospital President Joseph A. Zaccagnino today announced the appointment of Richard L. Edelson, M.D. as the new director of the Yale Cancer Center effective July 1, 2003....
Four faculty members named as outstanding teachers were honored at the Yale College Senior Class Day program on Sunday, May 25, and a Yale historian and former master who died this spring was given a posthumous award for his dedication to students. The...
Using a snapshot technique, a Yale astronomer has discovered a bright new gravitational lens. The gravitational lens was observed on April 25 by Nicholas Morgan, a post-doctoral fellow at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, using the 3.5-...