With HHMI funding, these Yale scientists are working to solve some of the most challenging biomedical mysteries.When the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has gone looking for biomedical researchers of “intellectual daring” in recent years, one place...
Yale physicist Jack Harris has demonstrated that one doesn’t have to be a research veteran to push back the frontiers of science.Like Einstein, who was only 26 years old when he came up with the theory of special relativity, Harris — an assistant...
By the time they complete his mechanical engineering class, Professor John Morrell’s students will have designed and built a hybrid car or a model airplane and entered them in national competitions.During the semester, the Yale undergraduates in his class...
Youngsters and adults alike will soon be able to tour the cosmos without leaving their seats, thanks to the opening of a new planetarium at Yale’s Leitner Family Observatory, 355 Prospect St. The renamed Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium is set...
The names of some Nobel Prize-winning physicists are well known, even outside the scientific community — such as Einstein, whose name has became synonymous with genius; Heisenberg, who had a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics named after him; or...
His students are sitting in a Yale classroom in New Haven in the 21st century, but John Carlson wants to transport them back to England in the mid-1960s. He wants them to struggle alongside the scientists back then who were trying to identify the agent...
Robert J. Schoelkopf, newly named as the inaugural William A. Norton Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, is noted for his research on quantum transport, single-electron devices and charge dynamics in nanostructures.When he won the American Physical...
Ira Flatow, host and executive producer of “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” on National Public Radio, will give a public lecture on campus on Tuesday, February 10.Titled “Talking Science in A Science-Challenged World,” Flatow’s talk will begin at 4 p....
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150 year anniversary of publication of his Origin of the Species, Yale has created a webportal, Yale Celebrates Darwin. The portal provides links to information about all the...
In addition to land and buildings, Yale’s recent purchase of the West Campus included an inventory of laboratory equipment and consumable supplies (i.e., test tubes, culture plates, etc.) with a fair market value of nearly $2 million. The Provost’s Office...
