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-...
Despite a decade of efforts to find flaws in the unification theory of active galaxies, the theory correctly explains the exotic phenomena of accreting supermassive black holes, a Yale astronomer said today. “Furthermore, the striking parallels between...
A group of astrophysicists at Yale has calculated the fate of a pair of supermassive black holes at the center of a galaxy, showing that they spiral inward and coalesce quickly when a large amount of gas is present. The work presented today at the...
The base height of clouds that form over the Northeastern states has been rising for 30 years, and this could disrupt forests at the north end of the Appalachian Mountains, according to researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental...
Yale professor F. Herbert Bormann will receive the international environmental Blue Planet Prize from the Japanese Asahi Glass Foundation on Oct. 22 in Tokyo. The prestigious prize is awarded annually to two individuals or organizations that have made...