To encourage the development and use of alternative energy sources, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) has purchased $3,500 of “renewable energy certificates,” ensuring that 20 percent of the school’s electricity is...
Twelve-month-old infants can use previous observations as a basis to understand new interactions, although five-month-olds cannot, according to a Yale study. “This finding shows not only that one-year-old infants are paying attention to the actions of...
A leading businessman from Brazil and a prominent legal scholar from Singapore will become visiting faculty at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 2003-04. “Having visiting faculty from abroad is now a tradition at the school,”...
Andrew Revkin, environment reporter for The New York Times, will discuss, “The Daily Planet: Why the Media Have Trouble Covering the Biggest Story in the World – The World Itself” on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall at the...
A major volcanic eruption about 100,000 years ago has been recorded in the genes of giant Galapagos tortoises whose ancestors survived the eruption, Yale researchers report in a recent issue of Science. The researchers analyzed a tortoise population...
Children are just as likely to choose a small toy as candy when offered both on Halloween, according to a Yale study. Given the choice between lollipops, fruit-flavored chewy candies, fruit flavored crunchy wafers, and sweet and tart hard candies, or...
Peter Schwartz, an internationally renowned futurist and co-founder and chair of the Global Business Network, will discuss “Inevitable Surprises: Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence” on Friday, October 24, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall,...
Timothy Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation and former United States Senator from Colorado, will discuss “Oil Dependence, Foreign Policy and the Need for a New Energy Policy” on Thursday, October 23, at 4 p.m. in the Yale Law School...
In the release “Yale Receives $4.9 Million Grant for International Genome Study” that was sent this morning, please add the following sentence at the beginning of the 6th paragragh, beginning NHGRI Director …. The National Human Genome Research...
An analysis of the smallest microbial genome ever sequenced supports theories that life may have originated in a hot and fiery primeval earth, according to Yale researchers and collaborators. N. equitans defines a new kingdom, Nanoarchaeota in the...