Michael Waldholz, managing editor of global health, science and environment at Bloomberg News, will be the guest at a Pierson College master’s tea on Wednesday, Feb. 24. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 4 p.m. in the...
Larry Stewart, professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, will deliver the opening Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities on Wednesday, Feb. 24.Stewart’s talk, titled “Experiment and Response: Discovering the Philosophic Audience in...
Two Yale faculty, neuroscientist Daniel A. Colón-Ramos and astronomer Marla Geha, have won Sloan Foundation Fellowships in recognition of their “outstanding promise.”The prestigious awards, given annually to 118 early-career researchers, recognize “...
“Dinosaur Train” host and paleontologist Scott Sampson will examine “Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent” in a talk at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History on Thursday, March 4.Sampson will speak at 5:30 p.m. at the museum, located at 170 Whitney Ave....
What do cook stoves in Bangladesh have to do with F-15 jet fuel? Or a plant fungus discovered in the Amazonian rain forest with sustainable architecture? As the faculty who attended the West Campus Energy Symposium on Feb. 27 learned, these are just some...
Yale scientists and researchers now have a comprehensive online tool they can use to share and discuss research projects, data, lab protocols, results, news of clinical trials and advances in clinical care.It is called the YCCI Research Accelerator (RA),...
For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.Action still resulted in an equal and opposite reaction, gravity kept the Earth circling the Sun, and...
When Jo Handelsman was 16 years old, she read a book by the late Yale plant physiologist Arthur Galston and became convinced her ambition to help feed the world was not misplaced.More than three decades later, she occupies the late Galston’s former office...
Yale senior Blair Benham-Pyle of Davenport College, who helped to identify potential new sources of drugs to treat bacterial and parasitic infections from fungal organisms found in the Amazon rainforest, has been named a 2010-2011 Luce Fellow.A major in...
There were robotic dinosaurs, a robot that danced and one that played rock-paper-scissors. But all of the robots on display at the robotics workshop on March 28 had something to teach us about ourselves.The robotics workshop — organized by the Center for...
