On a brisk Saturday morning in November, pre-teen girls from across the greater New Haven area clamored around a large pile of pipe cleaners, sparkles, crayons, pom poms and glue sticks. Scattered throughout were less-familiar items: alligator clips, wire...
Not many teachers would have the courage to ask, on the last day of class, how many of the nearly 180 students sitting before him had been dreading the course when it first began back in September. But that’s exactly what Scott Miller, the Irénée duPont...
There are an increasing number of “green” products available — from hybrid cars to organic food to sustainable buildings. The development of “green” drugs, however, is one area that has lagged behind in the move toward greater environmental sustainability...
You don’t have to spend years training to be an astronaut, or even pay a million dollars as a space tourist, to tour the cosmos. Now members of the Yale community, New Haven school groups and the general public can by whisked off to space without even...
Hong Tang, assistant professor of electrical and mechanical engineering, has received a CAREER award from the Faculty Early Career Development Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF).The NSF CAREER Award is one of the highest honors for young...
Three Yale graduate students recently were part of an expedition to Chile to find a rare microorganism that can produce diesel fuel.A year ago, the last place that three Yale graduate students would have expected to find themselves was in Chile, hunting...
When NASA’s Kepler spacecraft blasts into space on March 6, thousands of scientists around the globe will get one step closer to finding out just how unique Earth — and possibly life — really is.The robotic probe will spend the next three-and-a-half years...
Some people love gold; others are crazy about platinum. For Ann Valentine, it’s titanium. As a young scientist, she heard about a certain type of sea squirts - soft, tubular-shaped marine creatures that attach themselves to rocks and coral - that filters...
Two Yale postdoctoral scientists, Oscar R. Colegio and Kristina M. Herbert, were among 13 designated as Dam Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellows.The foundation provides funds to the nation’s most promising young cancer researchers so they can pursue...
