The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded $125,000 to Yale biomedical engineers Mark Saltzman and Michael Levene for research on the obstacles to drug delivery in regions of the brain affected by Parkinson’s disease. Saltzman and Levene will develop new...
Best-selling author Dava Sobel will give a public talk on April 28 at Yale to kick off a special astronomy exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book Library. The lecture and exhibition are part of the Department of Astronomy’s year-long series of events to...
Priyamvada Natarajan, associate professor of astronomy and physics, and Jaime Lara, a lecturer at Yale Institute of Sacred Music, have been named 2009 fellows by the Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed not only on the basis of...
Olympic hopefuls flexed their brains, rather than their brawn, when Yale’s Department of Chemistry hosted tryouts for this year’s national Chemistry Olympiad on April 25.The annual competition, which has been sponsored by the American Chemical Society...
Eleven Yale faculty members have been elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) in recognition of their contributions to the advancement of science.To be elected to the academy, scientists and engineers must achieve distinction...
David M. Smith, the Morris K. Jessup Professor Emeritus of Silviculture at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), died on March 7 at the Whitney Center in Hamden. He was 87.After earning his Master of Forestry in 1946 from F&ES...
Over 250 middle school students from New Haven and West Haven gathered in Davies Auditorium on May 1 to show just how calculating they can be.It was not their deviousness, but their mathematical skills, that the students demonstrated at the third annual...
The Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) has presented its first Gibbs Distinguished Staff Awards to four individuals whose “contributions and actions consistently elevate the operations, performance and morale of the school,...
Experts will discuss and give demonstrations of x-ray diffraction (XRD), an important tool being used to analyze all kinds of matter — from fluids to powders and crystals — at a symposium taking place on Friday, May 29.The inaugural “Yale-Rigaku Symposium...
William L. Jorgensen, newly appointed as a Sterling Professor of Chemistry, has been at the forefront of computational chemistry and molecular design.A Sterling Professorship is one of the University’s highest faculty honors.His research in organic,...
