Yale researchers are taking part in an ambitious, $36 million, three-year pilot study that will test efficient, high-throughput methods for identifying, locating and fully analyzing all of the functional elements contained in a set of DNA target regions...
By changing the optical properties of the semiconductor material gallium arsenide (GaAs), a Yale researcher has found a faster and cheaper way to create crystals for optical emitters, which have potential uses in fiber optic cables to carry television...
In a self-selecting poll of fulltime faculty and researchers, conducted by “The Scientist” magazine, Yale ranked third in “Best Places to Work in Academia”. Relationships with colleagues and the quality physical and financial resources were among the...
A Yale University science faculty member is available for comment about the solar storm, which is expected to send particles to Earth at noontime today. Sabatino Sofia, professor of astronomy and director of Yale’s Center for Solar & Space Research,...
An exhibit in the rotunda of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library will commemorate the Centennial of the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel in October 1903. The display opens on November 6 to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded investigators in the Computer Science Department at Yale University $3.9 million to study the problems of preserving privacy of sensitive information while permitting large scale data searching and...
Three women astronauts will discuss their work in a panel discussion titled “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women Pioneers in Space” on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 5:15 p.m. in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. The panelists will include...
Yale researchers are building a community atlas that provides the expression patterns of every gene in every cell type in rice – one of the first cereals cultivated on earth, and the principal food source for half of the world’s population. The four-...
Yale Provost Susan Hockfield announced Friday, November 7, 2003 that Pfizer Inc. will fund a graduate fellowship in neuroscience in honor of Patricia Goldman-Rakic, who died last July. Goldman-Rakic was Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurobiology at the...
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Yale’s Child Study Center and Department of Computer Science have received a new grant from the Doris Duke Foundation to advance autism research. They are planning to use a humanoid robot as an interactive...